Wikipedia:WikiProject Cryptography

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The aim of WikiProject Cryptography is to help editors working on cryptography articles by providing a repository of information and resources, and providing a place for discussions that affect more than one article. See also the Cryptography WikiPortal.

Contents

[edit] Lists and categories

[edit] Editor oriented lists

  • Category:Cryptography – Crypto images on Wikimedia Commons. (Note that new images should preferably be uploaded to Commons so they can be used in all language Wikipedias.)

[edit] Reader oriented lists

[edit] Featured articles and Good articles

See /Featured for the subproject concerning bringing articles to featured status or good article status.

[edit] Summaries

The following are monthly summaries of activity within the WikiProject:

[edit] Some open tasks

Current tasks for Wikipedia:WikiProject Cryptography

Image:Evolution-tasks.png


[edit] Discussions

[edit] Active

[edit] Inactive

[edit] Participants

If you're interested in editing cryptography articles, you might like to add yourself to this list, possibly with some information on what you know about / like to work on. New additions at the bottom, please.

You might also consider adding yourself to the Category:WikiProject Cryptography participants. See instructions on that category page for how to do it. However, note that that does not get you onto the list here and that the list here has advantages in that you can add a short description of interests.

  • Matt Crypto (talk · contribs) — block ciphers anything I'm not too dim to understand, but particularly World War II-era crypto.
  • Arvindn - theory of cryptography
  • ww
  • Imran
  • Dante Alighieri | Talk - drafted after dozens of edits related to restructuring of Enigma page.
  • Jon
  • NealMcB
  • AntS
  • Decrypt3 - it's why I chose the username.
  • Peter Hendrickson
  • CryptoDerk - number theory, galois fields, discrete log, elliptic curves
  • Cryptosmith - crypto engineering, network protocols
  • Clement Seveillac - general crypto, crypto software, PKI, smart cards
  • ciphergoth
  • Schnolle - PKI related.
  • Chris Peikert - theoretical crypto (zero-knowledge, multiparty computation, etc.), intersection of coding theory and crypto
  • Noel - mostly interested in the history of cryptography, particularly its influence on WWII, but also have some interest in Internet-related stuff
  • ral315 -- I'm an amateur mathematician, freshman in college, and creator of the Math WikiPortal. Check it out sometime!
  • Ram Moskovitz PKI, software distribution security, DRM, CA Operations
  • Julian Krause Computer Science Major, interested in all types of cryptography and math.
  • Arnold Reinhold
  • Levi CS also, computer security-related, can also make images and diagrams.
  • E=MC^2 Nothing really in particular
  • I Stanton anything, particularily math related.
  • Dachshund - elliptic curves, applied crypto
  • jonelo - security, one way hash algorithms
  • Nahaj - Implementation issues, Validation issues (Author of the first open source government validated (US, Canada) SHA-1 implmentation, 2000 (two months ago a second such validation appeared, OpenSSL))
  • Sir Ruptor (Talk)block ciphers, stream ciphers, hash functions cryptanalysis, stream cipher components (LFSR, NLFSR, NLPFSR, etc.), secure key exchange protocols, reverse engineering related topics
  • David Göthberg - I used to work with and teach crypto in embedded systems. That is, how to use crypto in cars and other machinery. Back in the 90's I was part of a team that designed a "trusted computing system" for the cars of a big car manufacturer. So far I have mostly written hash related articles and made hash related diagrams. I am mostly interested in crypto from a programmer and protocol point of view and I like to make diagrams. I am not a math guy or cryptanalyst.
  • Elonka Dunin (also User:Elonka) - Famous unsolved codes, history of cryptography, pencil and paper techniques, steganography, Al Qaeda codes, encrypted sculptures, cryptography in pop culture, code challenges
  • Meekohi
  • Batman900 - Diffie-Hellman problem, Crowds, Degree of anonymity; I am an undergraduate and am studying security at UVA, I am interested in anonymity/cryptography/number theory.
  • Quarl (talk)
  • DRLB - ECC, Provable security.
  • Mangojuice (Talk) — theoretical aspects, multiple areas.
  • MagusMind - theoretical crypto
  • William Allen Simpson — practical applications
  • detach - Applying symmetric ciphers in programs, different modes of operation, used blowfish (CBC) and XTEA, would want to put more effort in research other area's
  • Dr1819 - Random number generation, public/private key cryptography
  • Silmarillion
  • Thehumph - general cryptography
  • the editor1(my page)
  • Kaine I - dreamer of cryptography, general cryptography/cryptoanalysis
  • Msoos - My field is computer security + cryptography. I am willing to proofread and correct articles.
  • Raymondofrish - I'm working on a thesis on some large integer factorization methods.
  • Stevebkk - historical ciphers
  • Wintermute314Digital signature, Time stamp
  • jim -crypto v/v
  • David4286 - I like all kinds of things, I'm particularly interested in various forms of cryptanalysis.
  • S2z - Interests include number theory, information theory and cryptanalysis.
  • Shoseido - Digital Signature.
  • Autarch - classical and modern cryptanalysis. I started entries on Military Cryptanalytics and Lambros D. Callimahos.
  • Intgr — Just a crypto "hobbyist" and advocate interested in practical cryptography, including public- and symmetric-key.
  • Maxt — Theoretical and applied cryptography, cryptology, partially cryptanalysis, cryptographic software.
  • Dylan Lake
  • Hut 8.5 - history of cryptography, classical cryptography
  • Ntsimp - I know a lot about the math, but I'm most interested in the cryptanalysis of block ciphers
  • sandmouse I'm fascinated with all types of ciphers...
  • FactsOnly - Fun Stuff
  • Randfan!! 16:54, 18 November 2006 (UTC) -I like this stuff, but am not really good at this stuff.
  • RashBold (talk · contribs) - general interest in ciphers, especially 20th century.
  • Vapor One - General interest in covert communication.
  • Limn - Just about all things cryptography-related.
  • Sean
  • Lighthead þ - Interested in all kinds of coding, especially codes that are beneath our awareness in terms of psychology.
  • Samrsharma - All kinds of cryptography.
  • AchedDamiman 00:22, 23 May 2007 (UTC) Codemaker and Codebreaker Ultra-Pro.
  • Blokhead - theoretical foundations based on computational complexity: formal definitions, computational hardness assumptions, protocols with provable security
  • ParanoidMike - EFS, RMS, BitLocker, Windows PKI, cryptographic risks and mitigations
  • Trekphiler - mostly WWI- & WW2-era applications & impacts.
  • xDanielx - Algorithm comparison & analysis, etc.
  • Ronyz - Modern Cryptography.
  • Counterforensics - do cryptologic research for a living.
  • Ian Harvey - design commercial Hardware Security Modules for a living.
  • Ivan Akira (talk) - I like to make a new encryption algorithm that can be used in my program.
  • SV1XV (talk) - General interest in classical (paper & pencil) cryptography. User of PGP.
  • Protonk (talk) General Interest. No vocational experience.
  • Decateron - Interested in number theory, logic, and computability. Both historical and contemporary cryptography.

[edit] Stats

Date Total number of articles Number of stubs1
23/March/04 319 85
12/April/04 355 100
3/May/04 414 119
11/June/04 500 165
13/October/04 605 178
11/March/05 692 176
2/February/06 978 235

[1] "Stubs" are defined as articles with less than 1000 characters. Articles are counted from List of cryptography topics.

[edit] Cryptography in other Wikimedia projects

[edit] Free content

[edit] Other Internet content

[edit] Other cryptography encyclopedias

  • David E. Newton's Encyclopedia of Cryptology (ISBN 0874367727), 1998, has over 550 articles with an overall slant on the history of cryptography, but plenty of modern topics included as well.
  • Microsoft® Encyclopedia of Security, 800 pages (May 14, 2003), Microsoft Press International, ISBN 0735618771. (Table of contents). While covering the entire field of security, it has entries on a number of crypto topics.

[edit] Templates

[edit] {{CryptographyProject}}

We might wish to tag the Talk: pages of articles which are directly about cryptography with a notice about this WikiProject. For this purpose, there is {{CryptographyProject}}, which expands to the following:

WikiProject on Cryptography This article is part of WikiProject Cryptography, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to cryptography on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can choose to edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.

(Discussion at /WikiProject Notice)


[edit] {{Infobox block cipher}}

Discussion at: Template talk:Infobox block cipher.

Currently trialling Template:Infobox block cipher on AES, Blowfish, DEAL, DES, FEAL, GOST, IDEA, LOKI97, MISTY1, RC2, RC5, Serpent, Square, TEA, Triple DES, Twofish, XTEA

(Would) Need to apply to: 3-Way, Camellia, CAST-128, CAST-256, CMEA, DES-X, GDES, Iraqi block cipher, KASUMI, Khafre, KHAZAD, Khufu, LOKI89/91, Lucifer, MAGENTA, MARS, MMB, NewDES, Red Pike, S-1, SAFER, SHARK, Skipjack, RC6.


[edit] {{crypto-stub}}

Instead of {{stub}}, you might want to use {{crypto-stub}}. One advantage is that Category:Cryptography stubs gives a list of all the cryptography-related stubs. The message is:


[edit] {{User WikiProject Cryptography}}

If you add this userbox to your userpage you get automatically included in the Category:WikiProject Cryptography participants. It produces:

This user is a participant in WikiProject Cryptography.


 

[edit] Navigational templates

Cryptography has some navigational elements to make it easier for a reader to find related topics.

[edit] The main crypto navigation box

[edit] {{Crypto navbox}}

It produces:

This template is the main crypto navigation box. It can be added to the bottom of any cryptography article. This template also has some magic so it can include one or more of the specialised crypto navigation boxes inside the same frame.

To only use this template alone add this code to the bottom of an article:

{{crypto navbox}}

If you want it to also show for instance the specialised navigation box about stream ciphers then give it the "stream" parameter, like this:

{{crypto navbox | stream}}

You can also add several boxes in it, like this:

{{crypto navbox | block | stream}}

Note that the parameters come sort of in backwards order. In the example above the stream cipher box will be on top, followed by the block cipher box and then with the main crypto "navbox" at the bottom.

Here is an invalid example since "navbox" should not be a parameter but instead is part of the address of this template:

{{crypto stream | navbox}}

The available specialised boxes are:

block, stream, public-key, hash, machines, classical

For more details about these navigation boxes please see the description on the page of the main crypto navigation box itself. Below are examples of usage with the specialised boxes.


[edit] {{Crypto navbox | block | stream}}

It produces:


[edit] {{Crypto navbox | block}}

It produces:


[edit] {{Crypto navbox | stream}}

It produces:


[edit] {{Crypto navbox | public-key}}

It produces:


[edit] {{Crypto navbox | hash}}

It produces:


[edit] {{Crypto navbox | machines}}

It produces:


[edit] {{Crypto navbox | classical}}

It produces:


[edit] Deprecated templates

[edit] {{Cryptography portal}}

To inform users about the cryptography portal we had this template that could be placed in the "See also" section of articles. However we now recommend using the {{Crypto navbox}} instead.