Links, CPSC/PMAT 629, Winter 2010

Cryptographic Organizations (with online publication access)

• International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) homepage
• Accociation for Computing Machinery (ACM) homepage
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) homepage
• Springer Verlag website, including CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT, etc. conference proceedings

Standards Bodies

• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
• IEEE Standards Association
• The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

Speicific Standards Pages

• NIST Cryptographic Toolkit (FIPS specs of various cryptographic standards) Includes DES, AES, SHA-1, HMAC, DSS, and many others
• Specification and reference implementation of SHA-1

NSA documents

• NSA's Case for Elliptic Curve Cryptography
• Suite B Fact Sheet

Cryptography Products and Companies

• RSA Laboratories Homepage (research and standards) Includes PKCS #13 standard specs for elliptic curve cryptography
• Certicom

Software Packages

• GMP homepage (C multiprecision integer arithmetic)
• NTL number-theory library homepage (C++ class library for multiprecision integers, finite fields, polynomials, etc...)

Other References

• Handbook of Applied Cryptography