Table of contents

The mess that is our public-key infrastructure:

  1. The Internet is broken, can we please fix it? On Trustwave & MITM attacks.
  2. TACK, a proposal for dynamically ‘pinning’ certificates.
High-level intro posts:
  1. It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine. Post-quantum crypto from 30,000 feet.
  2. What is the random oracle model and why should I care? An early series, a little embarrassing.
  3. What’s TLS Snap Start? and So long False Start. On two (now withdrawn) TLS extensions.
  4. The future of electronic currency. On anonymous e-cash.
  5. Offline security through CAPTCHAs. A neat old idea for preventing dictionary attacks.
  6. Poker is hard, especially for cryptographers. All about mental poker.
  7. Fully-Homomorphic Encryption. Unfortunately this is still unfinished…
  8. Indifferentiability. On proofs of security for hash functions.
How to use cryptography (in)securely:
  1. How (not) to use symmetric encryption. A few of the worst pitfalls.
  2. What’s the deal with RC4? A history of attacks on an old stream cipher.
  3. How to choose an authenticated encryption mode. Very important!
  4. Random number generation, an illustrated primer. A look under the hood.
  5. Surviving a bad RNG. What to do if your (P)RNG isn’t carrying its weight. 
  6. Format preserving encryption. Or: how to encrypt a credit card number with AES.
  7. Circular security. A wonkier, more theoretical subject.
  8. On multiple encryption. Are you safer if you encrypt twice?
Crypto attack(s) of the week:
  1. A bad couple of years for the token industry. Padding attacks on cryptographic tokens.
  2. On the BEAST attackNote: written before the details were made public.
  3. XML Encryption. Why you should authenticate your ciphertexts.
  4. Side-channel attacks on DESFire. Neat.
  5. Datagram TLS. Alfardan & Paterson show that  timing attacks are (still) practical.
  6. 2011 Redux. A quick summary of a whole year.
  7. Satellite phone encryption is terrible. Attacks on two satphone ciphers. 
  8. The story of EAX(prime). And why security proofs are like Knight Rider.
  9. A tale of two patches. Analyzing two recent OpenSSL bugs.
Rants:
  1. Digital Fortress: I read it so you don’t have to. Dan Brown embarrasses cryptography.
  2. Bram Cohen corrected. In which I randomly flame Bram Cohen.
  3. Bram Cohen corrects me? Bram turns out to be a good sport.
  4. Why Antisec matters. The security industry is a joke?
Miscellaneous
When I though this blog was a book:
  1. Introduction
  2. Where things fall apart: PrimitivesProtocols

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