Snake Oil FAQ
- Guide to evaluating the quality and fitness for purpose of cryptography tools.
Adam Back's Homepage: Cypherspace - Find information on some cryptanalytic hacks, breaking weak cryptosystems and links to more cryptography related websites.
Choosing a Good Password - Tips on choosing a difficult to crack password and pitfalls in password selection.
The Cipher Challenge - History of a code cracking competition. Challenge details, how it was solved, winners, essays and photo gallery.
Coderpunks - Little sister of the cypherpunk mailing list. Discussion of implementations of strong, robust cryptosystems.
Crypto Machines - Features machines and systems used in secure communications. Includes brief history on cryptography.
Crypto-Gram - Free monthly email newsletter covering developments in cryptography and other computer security issues.
A Cryptographic Compendium - Outline of the various types of cipher systems that have been used historically and the relationships between them.
Cryptography FAQ - Ten part FAQ list that is essential reading for any newcomer to cryptography.
Cryptography World - Introduction to cryptography, including concepts, key management and application.
CryptoMX Tools - Set of cryptography tools written entirely in JavaScript, designed to work on any computer with a JavaScript capable browser.
Cyphernomicon - Tim May's CryptoNotes, and an introduction to the Cypherpunks.
Cypherpunks - Group, with mailing list, that is interested in privacy and cryptography.
Deschall - Articles describing the first crack of a DES-encrypted message, with some source code and mailing list archives.
Frode Weierud's Cryptology Page - History of cryptography, cipher machines and their simulation, cryptanalysis and other code breaking techniques.
Randomness and the Netscape Browser - Article about cracking the original Netscape encryption algorithm, and links to resources for generating crypto strength randomness.
RSA - Hacking and Cracking - Discusses security problems and possible attacks against the RSA cryptosystem.
Standard Cryptographic Algorithm Naming - Provides references for a collection of cryptographic algorithms, assigning each an ASCII name and zero or more aliases.
Strong Cryptography Links on the Internet - Dealing with cryptography, information security, cryptographers government, commercial, university, and personal sites, newsgroups, publications, programs and applications.