Useful Crypto-related Resources

This repository contains resources that I considered useful. It is a personal repository.

General

• Non-Malleable Cryptography by Danny Dolev, Cynthia Dwork, Moni Naor
• The Uneasy Relationship Between Mathematics and Cryptography by Neal Koblitz
• Another Look at “Provable Security” by Neal Koblitz and Alfred J. Menezes

Authenticated Encryption

• Challenges in Authenticated Encryption by Daniel J. Bernstein
• Boosting Authenticated Encryption Robustness With Minimal Modifications by Tomer Ashur, Orr Dunkelman, and Atul Luykx

AKE

• An Efficient Protocol for Authenticated Key Agreement by Laurie Law, Alfred Menezes, Minghua Qu, Jerry Solinas.
• Two-party authenticated key exchange protocol using lattice-based cryptography by Xiaopeng Yang and Wenping Ma
• The X3DH Key Agreement Protocol by Moxie Marlinspike and Trevor Perrin
• Deniable Authentication and Key Exchange by Mario Di Raimondo, Rosario Gennaro and Hugo Krawczyk
• A non-interactive deniable authentication scheme in the standard model by Bin Wang, Qing Zhao and Ke Dai
• A non-interactive deniable authentication scheme in the standard model by Bin Wang, Qing Zhao and Ke Dai
• Authenticated Key Exchange from Ideal Lattices by Jiang Zhang, Zhenfeng Zhang, Jintai Ding, Michael Snook, and Ozgür Dagdelen

Network Protocols

• Security Analysis of Network Protocols by John Mitchell

TLS

• Encrypting the Internet with Go by Filippo Valsorda
• SSL and HTTPS by Nickolai Zeldovich and their notes
• The New Illustrated TLS Connection
• TLS Handshake : Under The Hood by Sathya Bandara
• Keyless
• Keyless: details
• CFSSL by Nick Sullivan
• A Comprehensive Symbolic Analysis of TLS 1.3 by Cas Cremers, Marko Horvat, Jonathan Hoyland, Sam Scott and Thyla van der Merwe
• Introducing Zero Round Trip Time Resumption (0-RTT) by Nick Sullivan
• Even faster connection establishment with QUIC 0-RTT resumption by Alessandro Ghedini
• The QUIC Transport Protocol: Design and Internet-Scale Deployment by Adam Langley, Alistair Riddoch, Alyssa Wilk, Antonio Vicente, Charles Krasic, Dan Zhang, Fan Yang, Fedor Kouranov, Ian Swett, Janardhan Iyengar, Jeff Bailey, Jeremy Dorfman, Jim Roskind, Joanna Kulik, Patrik Westin, Raman Tenneti, Robbie Shade, Ryan Hamilton, Victor Vasiliev, Wan-Teh Chang, Zhongyi Shi
• Benchmarking Post-Quantum Cryptography in TLS by Christian Paquin, Douglas Stebila and Goutam Tamvada

X509/ASN.1

• Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile by D. Cooper, S. Santesson, S. Farrell, S. Boeyen, R. Housley, and W. Polk
• A Layman's Guide to a Subset of ASN.1, BER, and DER by Burton S. Kaliski Jr.
• New ASN.1 Modules for the Public Key Infrastructure Using X.509 (PKIX) by P. Hoffman and J. Schaad
• Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1): Specification of basic notation by INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION

OTR

OTRv2

• Finite-State Security Analysis of OTR Version 2 by Joseph Bonneau and Andrew Morrison.
• Protocol by Nikita Borisov and Ian Goldberg.
• Secure Off-the-Record Messaging by Mario Di Raimondo, Rosario Gennaro and Hugo Krawczyk

OTRv3

• Timeframe

Multiparty

• Multi-party Off-the-Record Messaging by Ian Golberg et Al.
• Improved Group Off-the-Record Messaging by Hong Liu, Eugene Y. Vasserman and Nicholas Hopper
• Improved Deniable Signature Key Exchange for mpOTR by Matthew Van Gundy

Usability

• Improved User Authentication in Off-The-Record Messaging by Chris Alexander and Ian Goldberg
• A User Study of Off-the-Record Messaging by Ryan Stedman, Kayo Yoshida and Ian Goldberg

Signal Protocol

• A Formal Security Analysis of the Signal Messaging Protocol by Katriel Cohn-Gordon, Cas Cremers, Benjamin Dowling, Luke Garratt and Douglas Stebila.
• How Secure is TextSecure? by Tilman Frosch, Christian Mainka, Christoph Bader, Florian Bergsma, Jorg Schwenk and Thorsten Holz.
• Technology preview: Private contact discovery for Signal
• Is Bob Sending Mixed Signals? by Michael Schliep, Ian Kariniemi and Nicholas Hopper.

Zero Knowledge Proof

• Multiple Non-Interactive Zero Knowledge Proofs Based on a Single Random String by Uriel Feige, Dror Lapidot and Adi Shamir.

Ciphers

• So you want to use an alternative cipher… by Matthew Green.
• Why switch from AES to a new stream cipher? by Daniel Bernstein.

Stream cipher

Nonce

• Introducing Miscreant: a multi-language misuse resistant encryption library by Tony Arceri
• Nonce misuse resistance 101 by lvh
• Online Authenticated-Encryption and its Nonce-Reuse Misuse-Resistance by Viet Tung Hoang, Reza Reyhanitabar, Phillip Rogaway and Damian Vizár

AES

• Another New AES Attack by Bruce Schneier

Salsa 20

• Salsa20 security by Daniel J. Bernstein.
• Notes on the Salsa20 key size by Daniel J. Bernstein.
• Notes

XSalsa20

• Extending the Salsa20 nonce by Daniel J. Bernstein.
• Notes on the Salsa20 key size by Daniel J. Bernstein.
• Implementation in NaCl

ChaCha20

• ChaCha20 and Poly1305 for IETF Protocols by Y. Nir and A. Langley
• ChaCha20-Poly1305 Cipher Suites for Transport Layer Security (TLS) by A. Langley, W. Chang, N. Mavrogiannopoulos, J. Strombergson and S. Josefsson

Analysis of Salsa, ChaCha and Rumba

• New Features of Latin Dances: Analysis of Salsa, ChaCha, and Rumba by Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Simon Fischer, Shahram Khazaei, Willi Meier, and Christian Rechberger
• Improved Key Recovery Attacks on Reduced-Round Salsa20 and ChaCha by Zhenqing Shi, Bin Zhang, Dengguo Feng and Wenling Wu

Blockcipher

In general

• Evaluation of Some Blockcipher Modes of Operation by Phillip Rogaway.

Symmetric key algorithm

DES

• On the Security of Multiple Encryption by Ralph C. Merkle and Martin E. Hellman

Key Exchange

Theory

• Entity Authentication and Key Distribution by Mihir Bellare and Phillip Rogaway
• Key Agreement Protocols and their Security Analysis by Simon Blake-Wilson, Don Johnson and Alfred Menezes.

With Anonymous Authentication

• Key Exchange with Anonymous Authentication using DAA-SIGMA Protocol by Jesse Walker and Jiangtao Li

Degenerate

• Degenerate Keys for RSA Encryption by Seth D. Bergmann
• Info
• Degenerate Curve Attacks by Samuel Neves and Mehdi Tibouchi

Fault Attacks

• Fault-resistant calculcations on elliptic curves by Marc Joye

Diffie Hellman

• New directions in Cryptography by Diffie and Hellman.
• Diffie-Hellman key exchange by Nikos Drakos
• Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Method by E. Rescorla
• Diffie-Hellman parameters by OpenSSL
• Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice by David Adrian et al
• Diffie-hellman by Crypto++
• Public key parameters
• A One Round Protocol for Tripartite Diffie–Hellman by Antoine Joux
• The Decision Diffie-Hellman Problem by Dan Boneh
• On Diffie-Hellman key agreement with short exponents by P. C. van Oorschot and M. J. Wiener
• Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Method by E. Rescorla
• Additional Diffie-Hellman Groups for Use with IETF Standards by M. Lepinski and S. Kent
• HMQV: A High-Performance Secure Diffie-Hellman Protocol by Hugo Krawczyk
• More Modular Exponential (MODP) Diffie-Hellman groups for Internet Key Exchange (IKE) by T. Kivinen and M. Kojo
• IEEE Standard Specifications for Public-Key Cryptography
• HMQV: A High-Performance Secure Diffie-Hellman Protocol by Hugo Krawczyk

Validation

• Additional Diffie-Hellman Tests for the Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 by Y. Sheffer Porticor, S. Fluhrer
• Methods for Avoiding the "Small-Subgroup" Attacks on the Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Method for S/MIME by R. Zuccherato

Attacks

• Timing Attacks on Implementations of Diffie-Hellman, RSA, DSS, and Other Systems by Paul C. Kocher
• On reusing ephemeral keys in Diffie-Hellman key agreement protocols by Alfred Menezes and Berkant Ustaoglu
• A lesson in timing attacks by codahale
• Measuring small subgroup attacks against Diffie-Hellman by Luke Valenta, David Adrian, Antonio Sanso, Shaanan Cohney, Joshua Fried, Marcella Hastings, J. Alex Halderman and Nadia Heninger. Slides
• Remote Timing Attacks are Practical by David Brumley and Dan Boneh
• Why Constant-Time Crypto?

Cramer-Shoup

• Cramer Shoup Cryto-System Java implementation by omoeller (not audited).
• Cramer Shoup Cryto-System Python implementation by benkreuter.

ElGamal

• A Public Key Cryptosystem and a Signature Scheme Based on Discrete Logarithms by Taher ElGamal
• ElGamal:Public-Key Cryptosystem by Jaspreet Kaur Grewal

Dual Receiver Encryption

• The Dual Receiver Cryptosystem and Its Applications by Theodore Diament, Homin K. Lee, Angelos D. Keromytis and Moti Yung
• Practical Dual-Receiver Encryption Soundness, Complete Non-Malleability, and Applications by Sherman S.M. Chow, Matthew Franklin, and Haibin Zhang

Elliptic Curve

Theory

• Elliptic Curves Number Theory and Cryptography by Lawrence C. Washington
• Isogenincs for a MIT class.
• Compact representation of an elliptic curve point: This document defines a format for efficient storage representation of an elliptic curve point over prime fields, suitable for use with any IETF format or protocol by A. Jivsov
• Point Generation And Base Point Selection In ECC: An Overview by Moumita Roy1, Nabamita Deb2, Amar Jyoti Kumar.
• SEC 1: Elliptic Curve Cryptography by Certicom Research.
• Elliptic Curves for Security by A. Langley and M. Hamburg. This memo specifies two elliptic curves over prime fields that offer a high level of practical security in cryptographic applications, including Transport Layer Security (TLS). These curves are intended to operate at the ~128-bit and ~224-bit security level, respectively, and are generated deterministically based on a list of required properties.
• ECC2015-Notes by Frederic Jacobs
• Graphs
• How to design an elliptic-curve signature system by blog.cr.yp.to
• Generating Elliptic Curves of Prime Order by Erkay Sava, Thomas A. Schmidt, and Cetin K. Koc
• Extended coordinates with a=-1 for twisted Edwards curves
• Elliptic Curves Suitable for Cryptosystems by Atsuko Miyaji
• Elliptic curves by Bjorn Poonen
• Rigid Parameter Generation for Elliptic Curve Cryptography by B. Black, J. Bos, C. Costello, A. Langley, P. Longa and M. Naehrig
• Tutorial by Tanja Lange
• ECC hacks by Tanja Lange
• Curves Formulas by Tanja Lange
• 512-bit twisted Edwards curve and curve generation methods in Russian standardization by Stanislav V. Smyshlyaev
• Programming: Sage: Elliptic curves over a general field
• Weierstrass coefficients of the canonical lifting by Luis R. A. Finotti
• Weierstrass equation or model
• Elliptic Curves, Lattices, and the Upper Half-Plane
• Elliptic Curve Cryptography: a gentle introduction by Andrea Corbellini
• Curves with a Twist
• Elliptic vs Hyperelliptic by Tanja Lange
• Sign Change Fault Attacks On Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems by Johannes Blömer, Martin Otto and Jean-Pierre Seifert
• An exploration of affine group laws for elliptic curves by Huseyin Hisil, Kenneth Koon-Ho Wong, Gary Carter and Ed Dawson
• A Las Vegas algorithm to solve the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem by Ayan Mahalanobis and Vivek Mallick
• On isogeny classes of Edwards curves over finite fields by Omran Ahmadi and Robert Granger
• Explicit-Formulas Database by Tanja Lange
• Validation of Elliptic Curve Public Keys by Adrian Antipa, Daniel Brown, Alfred Menezes, René Struik and Scott Vanstone
• Fast genus 2 arithmetic based on Theta functions by P. Gaudry
• Point Generation And Base Point Selection In ECC: An Overview by Moumita Roy, Nabamita Deb and Amar Jyoti Kumar
• Fundamental Elliptic Curve Cryptography Algorithms by D. McGrew, K. Igoe and M. Salter
• Elliptic Curve Groups modulo a Prime (ECP Groups) for IKE and IKEv2 by D. Fu and J. Solinas
• Elliptic Curve Cryptography in Practice by Joppe W. Bos, J. Alex Halderman, Nadia Heninger, Jonathan Moore, Michael Naehrig and Eric Wustrow
• Why Ellipses Are Not Elliptic Curves by Adrian Rice and Ezra Brown
• Visualization by Wolfgang Glas
• Elliptic Curves, Group Law, and Efficient Computation by Hüseyin Hisil. The presentation
• Some notes by Benn Lynn
• SEC 1: Elliptic Curve Cryptography by Daniel R. L. Brown
• BLS signatures, hashing to curves, and more dispatches from the IETF
• Sage
• [The Jacobi Model of an Elliptic Curve and Side-Channel Analysis])https://eprint.iacr.org/2002/125.pdf) by Olivier Billet and Marc Joye

Encoding

• Rational points on certain hyperelliptic curves over finite fields by Maciej Ulas
• Construction of Rational Points on Elliptic Curves over Finite Fields by Andrew Shallue and Christiaan E. van de Woestijne
• Compression and decompression of elliptic curve data points
• Encoding points in hyperelliptic curves over finite fields in deterministic polynomial time by Jean-Gabriel Kammerer, Reynald Lercier, and Guénaël Renault

Twist

• Twist Insecurity by Manfred Lochter and Andreas Wiemers
• Twist security

Jacobic

• The Jacobi Model of an Elliptic Curve and Side-Channel Analysis by Olivier Billet and Marc Joye

Kummer varieties

• Arithmetic on Abelian and Kummer Varieties by David Lubicz And Damien Robert

In general

• Elliptic Curves for Security draft-irtf-cfrg-curves-02: an algorithm for deterministically generating parameters for elliptic curves over prime fields by A. Langley.
• Elliptic Curves for Security by A. Langley and M. Hamburg.
• A brief discussion on selecting new elliptic curves by Craig Costello, Patrick Longa, and Michael Naehrig
• Curve41417: Karatsuba revisited by Daniel J. Bernstein, Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup, and Tanja Lange
• Cryptography in NaCl by Daniel J. Bernstein. Pretty interesnting for sage.
• Subtraction
• Elliptic curve point multiplication in Wikipedia.
• Explicit Addition Formulae
• Elliptic curve point multiplication
• Elliptic vs. hyperelliptic by Daniel Bernstein
• Operations by Tanja Lange

Courses

• MIT course

Conversions

• Fault Attacks on Projective-to-Affine Coordinates Conversion by Diana Maimut, C´edric Murdica, David Naccache and Mehdi Tibouchi. Presentation
• Fault Attacks on Projective-to-Affine Coordinates Conversion by Diana Maimut, C´edric Murdica, David Naccache and Mehdi Tibouchi. Pdf

wNafs

• wNAF*, an Efficient Left-to-Right Signed Digit Recoding Algorithm by Brian King
• Signed Binary Representations Revisited by Katsuyuki Okeya, Katja Schmidt-Samoa, Christian Spahn, and Tsuyoshi Takagi

Ideas

• DNS Curves

EC255219

• Curve25519: new Diffie-Hellman speed records by Daniel J. Bernstein
• A state-of-the-art Diffie-Hellman function by Daniel J. Bernstein
• Usage
• A state-of-the-art Diffie-Hellman function - Code by Daniel J. Bernstein
• Benchmark
• Toy implementatio
• High-speed Curve25519 on 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit microcontrollers by Michael Düll, Björn Haase, Gesine Hinterwälder, Michael Hutter, Christof Paar and Ana Helena Sánchez
• May the Fourth Be With You: A Microarchitectural Side Channel Attack on Several Real-World Applications of Curve25519 by Daniel Genkin, Luke Valenta and Yuval Yarom

Edwards Curve

• Twist Insecurity by Manfred Lochter and Andreas Wiemers
• Faster Addition and Doubling on Elliptic Curves by Daniel J. Bernstein and Tanja Lange.
• Twisted Edwards Curves by Daniel J. Bernstein, Peter Birkner, Marc Joye, Tanja Lange, and Christiane Peters
• Twisted Edwards Curves Revisited by Huseyin Hisil, Kenneth Koon-Ho Wong, Gary Carter, and Ed Dawson.
• On isogeny classes of Edwards curves over finite fields by Omran Ahmadi and Robert Granger
• Collective Edwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
• Multiquadratics

X448

• Implementation

Theory

Encoding

• Deterministic Encoding into Twisted Edwards Curves by Wei Yu, Kunpeng Wang, Bao Li and Song Tian.

ed448

• Ed448-Goldilocks by sourceforge.
• Mike Hamburg Implementation.
• STRIKE implementation.
• Ed448-Goldilocks, a new elliptic curve by Mike Hamburg.
• Ed448-Goldilocks, a new elliptic curve by Cryptology ePrint Archive
• Decaf: Eliminating cofactors through point compression by Mike Hamburg
• Implementation on C, on github
• Fast and compact elliptic-curve cryptography by Mike Hamburg
• Ed448-Goldilocks, a new elliptic curve by Mike Hamburg
• Some simple ECC tricks by Mike Hamburg
• Spec by Mike Hamburg

elligator

• Mike Hamburg's explanation
• Elligator: Elliptic-curve points indistinguishable from uniform random strings by Daniel J. Bernstein, Mike Hamburg, Anna Krasnova and Tanja Lange
• Implementing Elligator for Curve25519 by Adam Langley
• Implementation by Kleshni.

ed225519

• Implementation by Daniel J. Bernstein.
• Donna-edition by Adam Langley

Attacks

• New algorithm for the discrete logarithm problem on elliptic curves by Igor Semaev.

BenchMarking

• eBACS: ECRYPT Benchmarking of Cryptographic Systems: SUPERCOP

extra

• Hierarchical Deterministic keys over non-linear Keyspace by Khovratovich and Law

Hash Functions

• Cryptographic Hash-Function Basics: Definitions, Implications, and Separations for Preimage Resistance, Second-Preimage Resistance, and Collision Resistance by P. Rogaway and T. Shrimpton
• The Sponge Functions Corner by Guido Bertoni, Joan Daemen, Michaël Peeters and Gilles Van Assche
• The Keccak SHA-3 submission by by Guido Bertoni, Joan Daemen, Michaël Peeters and Gilles Van Assche
• Stribog
• FIPS 202 and KeccakDerived Functions by John Kelsey
• SHA-3 Derived Functions: cSHAKE, KMAC, TupleHash and ParallelHash by NIST
• A new Design Criteria for Hash-Functions by Jean-Sebastien Coron, Yevgeniy Dodis, , Cecile Malinaud, and Prashant Puniya
• BLAKE2: simpler, smaller, fast as MD5 by Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Samuel Neves, Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn and Christian Winnerlein
• Analysis of BLAKE2 by Jian Guo, Pierre Karpman, Ivica Nikolic, Lei Wang and Shuang Wu
• BLAKE2: “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” Than MD5 by Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
• BLAKE 2: slides
• BLAKE2 — fast secure hashing

Key generation function

• Argon2

Random Number Generators

• Recommendation for Random Number Generation Using Deterministic Random Bit Generators by NIST
• Random number generation: An illustrated primer by Matthew Green
• Surviving a bad RNG by Matthew Green
• Computational Alternatives to Random Number Generators by David M’Raıhi, David Naccache, David Pointcheval, and Serge Vaudenay

Message Authentification Code (MAC)

• SHA3-based MACs by Ray Perlner.
• New Proofs for NMAC and HMAC: Security without Collision-Resistance by Mihir Bellare.

Key derivation functions

• Key derivation functions by cryptography.io.
• Recommendation for Key Derivation Using Pseudorandom Functions by Lily Chen in NIST.

Digital Signatures

• New variant of Guillou-Quisquater digital signature scheme by J. Ettanfouhi, O. Khadir
• RSA signatures and Rabin–Williams signatures: the state of the art by Daniel J. Bernstein.
• Proving tight security for Rabin–Williams signatures by Daniel J. Bernstein.
• Short signatures from the Weil pairing by Dan Boneh, Ben Lynn, and Hovav Shacham.
• A Provably Secure Nyberg-Rueppel Signature Variant with Applications by Giuseppe Ateniese and Breno de Medeiros.
• Performance of Batch-based Digital Signatures by William C. Cheng, Cheng-Fu Chou and Leana Golubchik
• How To Prove Yourself: Practical Solutions to Identification and Signature Problems by Amos Fiat and Adi Shamir

Schnorr signatures

• Schnorr Signatures: An Overview by Christopher Allen.
• Multi-user Schnorr security, revisited by Daniel J. Bernstein, Niels Duif, Tanja Lange, Peter Schwabe and Bo-Yin Yang
• Fast and compact elliptic-curve cryptography by Mike Hamburg
• Efficient Ring Signatures without Random Oracles by Hovav Shacham and Brent Waters
• Efficient Signature Generation by Smart Cards by C. P. Schnorr
• Proofs of Partial Knowledge and Simplified Design of Witness Hiding Protocols by Ronald Cramer, Ivan Damgard, Aarhus University and Berry Schoenmakers

Hash-based signatures

• SPHINCS: practical stateless hash-based signatures by Daniel J. Bernstein, Daira Hopwood, Andreas Hülsing, Tanja Lange, Ruben Niederhagen, Louiza Papachristodoulou, Michael Schneider, Peter Schwabe and Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn

EdDSA

• Edwards-curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA): The elliptic curve signature scheme Edwards-curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA) is described by S. Josefsson.
• Ed25519 and Ed448 for DNSSEC by O. Sury
• EdDSA notes
• High-speed high-security signatures by Daniel J. Bernstein, Niels Duif, Tanja Lange, Peter Schwabe and Bo-Yin Yang
• EdDSA for more curves by Daniel J. Bernstein, Niels Duif, Tanja Lange, Peter Schwabe and Bo-Yin Yang
• The Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) by American National Standards
• Edwards-curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA) by S. Josefsson and I. Liusvaara (draft)
• Edwards-curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA) by S. Josefsson and I. Liusvaara (draft)
• Edwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA) by S. Josefsson and I. Liusvaara
• Breaking Ed25519 in WolfSSL by Niels Samwel, Lejla Batina, Guido Bertoni, Joan Daemen, and Ruggero Susella
• A Side-Channel Assisted Cryptanalytic Attack Against QcBits by Melissa Rossi, Mike Hamburg, Michael Hutter and Mark E. Marson
• EdDSA for more curves by Daniel J. Bernstein, Simon Josefsson, Tanja Lange, Peter Schwabe and Bo-Yin Yang

XEdDSA

• The XEdDSA and VXEdDSA Signature Schemes by Trevor Perrin.

qDSA

• qDSA: Small and Secure Digital Signatures with Curve-based Diffie–Hellman Key Pairs by Joost Renes and Benjamin Smith

Zero-Knowledge

• Concurrent Zero-Knowledge by Cynthia Dlvork, Moni Naori and Amit Sahai
• Efficient and Non-Malleable Proofs of Plaintext Knowledge and Applications by Jonathan Katz

Validations

• Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key Establishment Schemes Using Discrete Logarithm Cryptography by NIST

Models

The Random Oracle Model

• The random oracle model: a twenty-year retrospective by Neal Koblitz and Alfred J. Menezes.

Formal Verifications

• C murphi.
• Formal verification group webpage by the University of Utah (archived)
• Eddy Murphi
• Murphi Model Checker
• Nik Unger pull request on CMurphi

Mix networks

• Sphinx: A Compact and Provably Secure Mix Format by George Danezis and Ian Goldberg.
• From a Trickle to a Flood: Active Attacks on Several Mix Types by Andrei Serjantov, Roger Dingledine and Paul Syverson
• Heartbeat Traffic to Counter (n-1) Attacks by George Danezis and Len Sassaman
• The Loopix Anonymity System by Ania Piotrowska, Jamie Hayes, Tariq Elahi, Sebastian Meiser and George Danezis

Anonimity

• Anonymity Trilemma: Strong Anonymity, Low Bandwidth Overhead, Low Latency—Choose Two by Debajyoti Das, Sebastian Meiser, Esfandiar Mohammadi and Aniket Kate

Protocol

Sociallist Millionaire Protocol (SMP)

• Socialist Millionaire Protocol Passphrase Generator by dillbyrne.
• A Fair and Efficient Solution to the Socialist Millionaires’ Problem by Fabrice Boudot, Berry Schoenmakers and Jacques Traoré

Double Ratchet

• The Double Ratchet Algorithm by Trevor Perrin (editor) and Moxie Marlinspike.

STROBE

• The Strobe Protocol by Mike Hamburg

[The OAKLEY Key Determination Protocol]

• The OAKLEY Key Determination Protocol by H. Orman

Schemes

• Folklore, Practice and Theory of Robust Combiners by Amir Herzberg.

Security

• Chosen-Ciphertext Security of Multiple Encryption by Yevgeniy Dodis and Jonathan Katz.
• Encryption Works by FOPsF
• Project Wycheproof
• Universally Composable Security: A New Paradigm for Cryptographic Protocols by Ran Canetti
• Security workshop by Dan Boneh

Compendia

• Theory of Cryptography: 9th Theory of Cryptography Conference, TCC 2012, edited by Ronald Cramer.
• Recommendation for Key Management by Elaine Barker in NIST.
• Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key Establishment Schemes Using Discrete Logarithm Cryptography by Elaine Barker, Don Johnson, and Miles Smid in NIST.

School

• Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)

Library

Pairing-based cryptography

• The PBC (Pairing-Based Cryptography) library by Ben Lynn.
• A Practical Second-Order Fault Attack against a Real-World Pairing Implementation by Johannes Blomer, Ricardo Gomes da Silva, Peter Gunther, Juliane Kramer and Jean-Pierre Seifert

Nik Unger otr implementation

• Off-the-Record Messaging by Nik Unger.

General

• Crypto++ 5.6.5
• cryptopp
• The Apache Milagro Cryptographic Library
• DeDiS Advanced Crypto Library for Go
• Relic
• Libsodium docs
• Libsodium: helpers
• TweetNaCl by Daniel J. Bernstein1, Bernard van Gastel, Wesley Janssen, Tanja Lange, Peter Schwabe3 and Sjaak Smetsers
• NaCl: internals
• HACL: A Verified Modern Cryptographic Library by Jean Karim Zinzindohoué, Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Jonathan Protzenko and Benjamin Beurdouche
• Several
• Privacy Pass by Alex Davidson
• Apache Milagro Crypto Library

Javascript

• Stanford Javascript Crypto Library

CIRCL

• Introducing CIRCL: An Advanced Cryptographic Library by Kris Kwiatkowski and Armando Faz-Hernández
• Github repo

Quatum computing

• The Quantum Menace by Armando Faz-Hernández
• Quantum Computing: Lecture Notes by Ronald de Wolf
• Polynomial time algorithms for prime discrete logarithms on a quantum computer by Peter W. Shor
• Simulating Physics with Computers by Richard Feynman
• Quantum Mechanical Computers by Richard Feynman
• Worst-Case to Average-Case Reductions for Module Lattices
• Quantum Computing And The New IT Revolution by Tommaso Gagliardoni

Post-Quantum Cryptography

• PQCHacks: A gentle introduction to post-quantum cryptography by djb and Tanja Lange in 32c3.
• Towards quantum-resistance cryptosystems from supersingular elliptic curve isogenies by Luca de Feo, David Jao and Jerome Plut.
• Quantum computers are coming! by Tanja Lange and Daniel J. Bernstein
• Ring learning with errors
• A low-resource quantum factoring algorithm by Daniel J. Bernstein, Jean-François Biasse, and Michele Mosca
• Module-LWE key exchange and encryption: The three bears by Mike Hamburg
• On Lattices, Learning with Errors, Random Linear Codes, and Cryptography by Oded Regev
• On Agnostic Boosting and Parity Learning by Adam Tauman Kalai, Yishay Mansour and Elad Verbin
• Post-Quantum Cryptography by Daniel Bernstein and Johannes Buchmann
• A Simple Provably Secure Key Exchange Scheme Based on the Learning with Errors Problem by Jintai Ding, Xiang Xie and Xiaodong Lin
• The Learning with Errors Problem by Oded Regev
• Quantum theory, the Church-Turing principle and the universal quantum computer by David Deutsch
• Post-quantum cryptography –dealing with the fallout of physics success by Daniel J. Bernstein and Tanja Lange
• A Post-Quantum Digital Signature Scheme Based on Supersingular Isogenies by Youngho Yoo, Reza Azarderakhsh, Amir Jalali, David Jao and Vladimir Soukharev
• Quantum Erasure Cryptography by Hatim Salih
• TESLA: Tightly-Secure Efficient Signatures from Standard Lattices by Erdem Alkim, Nina Bindel, Johannes Buchmann, Özgür Dagdelen and Peter Schwabe
• An improved compression technique for signatures based on learning with errors by Shi Bai and Steven D. Galbraith
• NTRU Prime by Daniel J. Bernstein, Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup, Tanja Lange and Christine van Vredendaal
• An Efficient Quantum Collision Search Algorithm and Implications on Symmetric Cryptography by André Chailloux, María Naya-Plasencia, and André Schrottenloher
• Low-communication parallel quantum multi-target preimage search by Gustavo Banegas and Daniel J. Bernstein

Hashed-based signatures

• Hash-Based Signatures presentation by Andreas Hülsing
• COSIC seminar "Introduction to Hash Based Signatures" by John Kelsey

Searchable symmetric encryption

• Searchable Symmetric Encryption: Improved Definitions and Efficient Constructions by Reza Curtmola, Juan Garay, Seny Kamara and Rafail Ostrovsky

Malware

• Encrypted Viruses
• Official (ISC)2 Guide to the SSCP CBK, Second Edition
• The Art of Computer Virus
• Examples of Malicious Computer Programs by Ronald B. Standler
• Malwaretech
• Common Patterns of Virus Research
• Automatic Transfer Systems (ATS) for Beginners by MalwareTech

MPC

• A Full CryptoCurrency Custody Solution Based on MPC and Threshold ECDSA by Yehuda Lindell

Passwords

• SPHINX: A Password Store that Perfectly Hides from Itself by Maliheh Shirvanian, Stanislaw Jarecki†, Hugo Krawczyk and Nitesh Saxena
• Exploring implicit memory for painless password recovery by Tamara Denning, Kevin D Bowers, Marten V van Dijk, Ari Juels
• Effects of Password Type and Memory Techniques on User Password Memory by Lezlie Y. España
• Forget the Password: Password Memory and Security Applications of Augmented Cognition by Nancy MogireEmail, Michael-Brian Ogawa, Randall K. Minas, Brent Auernheimer and Martha E. Crosby
• Password-based authentication: a system perspective by A. Conklin, G. Dietrich and D. Walz
• Too many passwords? How understanding our memory can increase password memorability by Naomi Woods and Mikko Siponen
• A novel image-based implicit password authentication system (IPAS) for mobile and non-mobile devices by Sadiq Almuairfi, Prakash Veeraraghavan and Naveen Chilamkurti
• Implicit Authentication through Learning User Behavior by Elaine Shi, Yuan Niu, Markus Jakobsson and Richard Chow
• Touch me once and i know it's you!: implicit authentication based on touch screen patterns by Alexander De Luca, Alina Hang, Frederik Brudy, Christian Lindner, and Heinrich Hussmann

Cryptocurrencies

• ZCash Ceremony

Bitcoin

• Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies by Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau, Edward Felten, Andrew Miller and Steven Goldfeder

Usability

• Obstacles to the Adoption of Secure Communication Tools by Ruba Abu-Salma, Anastasia Danilova, M. Angela Sasse, Alena Naiakshina, Joseph Bonneau and Matthew Smith
• Listen to Developers! A Participatory Design Study on Security Warnings for Cryptographic APIs by Peter Leo Gorski, Yasemin Acar, Luigi Lo Iacono and Sascha Fahl
• “We make it a big deal in the company”: Security Mindsets in Organizations that Develop Cryptographic Products by Julie M. Haney, Mary F. Theofanos, Yasemin Acar and Sandra Spickard Prettyman
• Developers Deserve Security Warnings, Too: On the Effect of Integrated Security Advice on Cryptographic API Misuse by Peter Leo Gorski, Luigi Lo Iacono, Dominik Wermke, Christian Stransky, Sebastian Möller, Yasemin Acar, and Sascha Fahl
• Comparing the Usability of Cryptographic APIs by Yasemin Acar, Michael Backes, Sascha Fahl, Simson Garfinkel, Doowon Kim, Michelle L. Mazurek, and Christian Stransky

Mailing List

• Modern Crypto
• The Internet Engineering Task Force -IETF-
• Cypherpunks

Hacking (in general)

• Awesome-Hacking

Various

• Rebooting the Web-of-Trust
• Tor Browser Bundle - iSEC Deliverable 1.3
• Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part I -- Message Encipherment and Authentication Procedures by J. Linn
• Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies by N. Freed and N. Borenstein
• Exploiting mathematical structures in cryptography by van Vredendaal, C

Password managers

• Password Managers: Under the Hood of Secrets Management
• Recovering the Master Password from a Locked Password Manager (1Password 4) by Adrian Bednarek

VPRFs / (V)OPRFs

• A verifiable random function with short proofs and keys by Yevgeniy Dodis and Aleksandr Yampolskiy
• Privacy Pass: Bypassing Internet Challenges Anonymously by Alex Davidson, Ian Goldberg, Nick Sullivan, George Tankersley, and Filippo Valsorda
• EC-OPRF: Oblivious Pseudorandom Functions using Elliptic Curves by Jonathan Burns, Daniel Moore, Katrina Ray, Ryan Speers and Brian Vohaska
• Verifiable Random Functions by Silvio Micali, Michael Rabiny and Salil Vadha
• Composable & Modular Anonymous Credentials: Definitions and Practical Constructions by Jan Camenisch, Maria Dubovitskaya, Kristiyan Haralambiev , and Markulf
• Malleable Signatures: Complex Unary Transformations and Delegatable Anonymous Credentials by Melissa Chase, Markulf Kohlweiss and Anna Lysyanskaya
• Dynamic Accumulators and Application to Efficient Revocation of Anonymous Credentials by Jan Camenisch and Anna Lysyanskaya
• The Signal Private Group System and Anonymous Credentials Supporting Efficient Verifiable Encryption by Melissa Chase, Trevor Perrin and Greg Zaverucha
• Anonymous Tokens with Private Metadata Bit by Ben Kreuter, Tancrede Lepoint, Michele Orru, and Mariana Raykova

Post-quantum Cryptography and protocols

• Hybrid key exchange in TLS 1.3 by D. Stebila, S. Fluhrer and S. Gueron