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Resources
Blogging
- Some notes on getting your blog set up with Blogger and MovableType are here.
Lectures
Presentation topics
Here is a list of topics for
the second presentation. You are welcome to come up with your own
topic; keep in mind that it must cover a controversial issue, and you
must take and depend a point of view.
Here is a list of potential
presentation topics. Feel free to come up with your own as well. Come
talk to me if you're not sure whether a topics is suitable.
Here is the example talk I cave on Carnivore on 2/4/04.
Here is the example talk I cave on Zero Information Protocols on 2/11/04.
Crypto/Security
- An introduction to PGP and
public-key encryption. Lots of information on how public-key and
PKI systems work. Not much detail on why public-key encryption is
actually hard.
- RSA faq -
more technical detail on generating keys.
- In particular, RSA labs has a
very nice explanation of the difficulty of
factoring large numbers, using Moore's Law to estimate future security.
- A
brief explanation of the mathematics of RSA, including an example.
- distributed.net An online
community devoted to developing massively distributed applications for
breaking cryptographic protocols, including DES and RC5.
- list
of online resources about cryptography and security.
- the International PGP homepage.
- a
white paper from Sun that provides a nice overview of PKI.
- A
collection of links about Public Key Infrastructure.
- A fun
paper by Fagin, Naor, and Winkler on zero-information protocols.
- A
paper describing the implementation of RC5.
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