Links to Third-party web sites

PGP/GnuPG tutorials

• Learning about Cryptography - A basic introduction by Terry Ritter.
• Comprehensive PGP FAQ - A good first stop shop for common questions.
• PGP: Key Encryption - A good introduction to PGP encryption and key generation, by David E.Ross
• Tom McCune's page for PGP - Very good source of PGP info and FAQ.

DES Encryption

• Data Encryption Standard (DES) Standard - National Bureau of Standards.
• The DES Algorithm Illustrated - by J.Orlin Grabbe.
• DES Encryption Overview

MD5 Encryption

• Collisions in the MD5 cryptographic hash function.
• MD5 considered harmful today - Creating a rogue CA certificate

Secure deletion/removal of files/data

• Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory - A paper presented by Peter Gutmann to the Usenix Security Symposium in 1996.

DNA Analysis & Profiling

• DNA Profiling - An interesting article on DNA Profiling.

Snake oil & other 'false' security

• Snake Oil Warning Signs: Encryption Software to Avoid

Law & Legal Information

• Crypto Law Survey - A good resource site for finding out cryptography laws in different countries.

Password Cracking and Decryption

• Russian PaSsWord Crackers - A good site for cracking passwords and application codes.

Hacking

• How to eavesdrop on MSN conversations - a neat little hack you can do to computers on your LAN.

Historical Information

• Bletchley Park Museum - Interesting mechanical cypher machine info, including Enigma machine history.
• Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems - Claude Shannon's original 1949 manuscript.
• Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems - Another copy of Claude Shannon's work, plus an article by Horst Feistel, a member of the IBM team that developed the Lucifer and DES ciphers.
• A Mathematical Theory of Communication - Claude Shannon's original 1948 manuscript.

Miscellaneous crypto stuff

• TCPA/Palladium FAQ - by Ross Anderson.
• Plaintext recognition - Alan Sherman's introduction and guide.
• The Diceware Passphrase Home Page - A novel way of generating passphrases using dice.

Further links to information

• John Savard's Cryptographic Compendium - plus loads of other interesting links
• Cryptography and Security - Excellent collection of links to further information.
• Crypto link farm Security Products - a huge list of useful links.
• Nature-Inspired Cryptography and Security - A good repository of interesting links to different cryptographic ciphers.
• Cryptography and Security - Excellent collection of links to further information.