An Overview of Cryptography

Re:An Overview of Cryptography by devhwrng on Friday November 29, 2019 @08:16AM (#21664151)

Great paper! Given the write-ups of old and broken crypto, perhaps a better title would be History of Cryptography?

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Re:An Overview of Cryptography by ljhsiung on Friday November 29, 2019 @10:17AM (#21664836)

It does say at the top "originally written in 1998" and it was basically amended over time, but regardless I still love learning about "historical" views.

Example: A textbook from '95 had a pretty large section on "the future" of ECC and "current" trends in research. It was interesting seeing what came true, or what was still being worked on.

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Re:An Overview of Cryptography by FabHK on Friday November 29, 2019 @08:47AM (#21664317)

Indeed. Interesting mix of theory ("here's how RSA works and why") and practice (list of specs and RFCs), but very old-school.

Today, I'd expect less focus on RSA and PGP, and instead a mention of elliptic curves, the Signal protocol (double ratchet), etc.

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