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(HN )Introduction to Cryptography by Christof Paar Keybase - Secure groups, files, and chat for everyone.Signal - Secure messenger.Cryptocoding - Guidelines for low-level cryptography software.Constant-Time Toolkit Tink - Multi-language, cross-platform, open source library that provides cryptographic APIs that are secure, easy to use correctly, and hard(er) to misuse.Ring - Safe, fast, small crypto using Rust.dalek cryptography - Fast, safe, pure-rust elliptic curve cryptography.Trillian - Transparent, highly scalable and cryptographically verifiable data store. (Examples )Intuitive Advanced Cryptography Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained (2019) (HN )The Latest Developments in Cryptography Webinar An Overview of Cryptography A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography (2020) (HN ) (HN 2 )BLAKE3 (in Rust) - Cryptographic hash function. (HN )BLAKE3 (rewrite in Go) BLAKE3 (in JS) - Hashing for JavaScript: native Node bindings (where available) and WebAssembly.BLAKE3 reference specification Real world crypto talks awesome-mpc - Curated list of multi party computation resources and links.Basic Intro to Lattices in Cryptography (2020) SwiftCrypto - Open-source implementation of a substantial portion of the API of Apple CryptoKit suitable for use on Linux platforms. (Article )Fiat-Crypto - Cryptographic Primitive Code Generation by Fiat.CIRCL - Cloudflare Interoperable Reusable Cryptographic Library. (Article ) (Pairings in CIRCL )cosign - Cooperative RSA signatures.Practical Cryptography for Developers book (Code )Cryptopals - Collection of 48 exercises that demonstrate attacks on real-world crypto. (Solutions in Go ) (Solutions in Python )Intuitive Advanced Cryptography Intuitive Understanding of Quantum Computation and Post-Quantum Cryptography Cofactor Explained: Clearing Elliptic Curves' dirty little secret (2020) Move Fast and Roll Your Own Crypto. Quick Look at the Confidentiality of Zoom Meetings (2020) Monocypher - Easy to use, easy to deploy crypto library. (Article )Learning fast elliptic-curve cryptography in JS (2020) SHISHUA: The Fastest Pseudo-Random Generator In the World (2020) (HN )RSA implementation in pure Rust Cryptography I course Basic implementations of standard cryptography algorithms, like AES and SHA-1 Botan - Crypto and TLS for Modern C++.Understanding Cryptography book Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives? (2020) Useful Crypto-related Resources Basic Intro To Elliptic Curve Cryptography (2020) (HN ) (HN 2 )How Not to Learn Cryptography (2014) (HN )Encrypted Systems Lab - Research lab in the Computer Science Department at Brown University.Snow - Rust implementation of the Noise Protocol Framework.Real-World Cryptography book (2020) (Why I’m Writing A Book On Cryptography ) (HN )How To Learn Cryptography as a Programmer (2020) Cifra - Collection of cryptographic primitives targeted at embedded use.sjcl - Stanford Javascript Crypto Library. (Web ) (HN )Sodium - Modern, easy-to-use software library for encryption, decryption, signatures, password hashing and more. (Docs )libsodium.js - Sodium crypto library compiled to WebAssembly and pure JavaScript using Emscripten, with automatically generated wrappers to make it easy to use in web applications.Finite Fields (2020) (Lobsters )Really low latency multipliers and cryptographic puzzles (2020) A Gentle Introduction to Verifiable Delay Functions (HN )Keyoxide - Privacy-friendly platform to establish your decentralized identity. 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Was designed by Galois for the NSA Laboratory for Advanced Cybersecurity Research as a public standard for specifying cryptographic algorithms. (Web )Courses on distributed systems and elliptic curve cryptography (2020) Implementing Curve25519/X25519: A Tutorial on Elliptic Curve Cryptography wasm-crypto - WebAssembly (via AssemblyScript) set of cryptographic primitives for building authentication and key exchange protocols.Everything Crypto - Collection of notebooks covering different algorithms and concepts from cryptography.How Rainbow Tables work Cryptography in Layman's Terms (2020) Cryptographic Wear-Out for Symmetric Encryption (2020) (Lobsters )A Decade of Lattice Cryptography (2016) Session Protocol: Technical implementation details (2020) (HN )Streaming Merkle Proofs in Binary Numeral Trees (2021) Mercurial Signatures Crypto Dictionary Book (Code )Applied Cryptology Lab (NaCl) Cryptography Resources NuCypher - Cryptographic Infrastructure for Privacy-Preserving Applications. (Code ) (GitHub )FROST: Flexible Round-Optimized Schnorr Threshold Signatures - Chelsea Komlo (2021) Crackpot Cryptography and Security Theater (2021) (Lobsters )Lobsters: Resources for crypto fundamentals? (2021) keys.pub - Cryptographic key management. (Code )hacspec - Specification language for cryptography primitives. (Web )Actually, You Are Rolling Your Own Crypto (2021) (Lobsters )ZenGo Research - Goal is to take threshold cryptography all the way from theory to your mobile device (or any consumer software/hardware). (GitHub )Cryptofuzz - Differential cryptography fuzzing.Cryptography and how to deal with man-in-the-middle attacks in JavaScript (HN )RELIC - Modern cryptographic meta-toolkit with emphasis on efficiency and flexibility.Arbitrary Code Execution in the Universal Turing Machine (2021) (HN )CrySyS Lab - Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security.Hacker's guide to deep-learning side-channel attacks: the theory (2021) Cryptography from the Ground Up (2021) Crypto Gotchas - Collection of common (interesting) cryptographic mistakes.How I Learned Symmetric-Key Cryptanalysis (2021) (HN )Public key cryptography: OpenSSH private keys (2021) Nova - Recursive SNARKs without trusted setup.You Really Shouldn't Roll Your Own Crypto: Empirical Study of Vulnerabilities in Cryptographic Libs (2021) (Lobsters )Fine Grained Dataflow Tracking with Proximal Gradients (2021) (Code )mcl - Portable and fast pairing-based cryptography library.ecgen - Tool for generating Elliptic curve domain parameters.Conditionally-Perfect Secrecy and a Provably-Secure Randomized Cipher (1992) Minisign - Dead simple tool to sign files and verify digital signatures. (Web )Minisign in Zig Signify - OpenBSD tool to signs and verify signatures on files. Portable version.O(1) Labs - Using cryptography and cryptocurrency to build computing systems that put people back in control of their digital lives. (GitHub )Bugs in our Pockets: The Risks of Client-Side Scanning (2021) (Tweet ) (Lobsters ) (Article )Cracking Random Number Generators Using Machine Learning (2021) (HN )A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography (2020) (HN )HACL* - Formally verified cryptographic library written in F*.Threema: Three Strikes, You’re Out (2021) (Lobsters )Lightweight Cryptography (HN )RsaCtfTool - RSA attack tool (mainly for ctf) - retreive private key from weak public key and/or uncipher data.Drand - Distributed Randomness Beacon Daemon. (Web )Jasmin - Workbench for high-assurance and high-speed cryptography. (Wiki )An Illustrated Guide to Elliptic Curve Cryptography Validation (2021) (HN )starkex-lib - Cryptographic functions for dYdX.Kryptology - Coinbase's advanced cryptography library. (Article ) (HN )NCC Group’s Cryptopals Guided Tour (2021) (HN )WASI Cryptography APIs Lecture notes for Chris Peikert's graduate-level Theory of Cryptography course An intensive introduction to cryptography (Notes )Casual code review of MetaMask’s crypto (2022) (Lobsters )EasyCrypt - Computer-Aided Cryptographic Proofs.Pseudorandom Number Generation using LFSR (2022) lokey - Tool that makes it easy to work with and convert between cryptographic key formats.Oblivious Message Retrieval (2021) SHA-256 Project - Learn how hash functions work by implementing one yourself. (HN )The Joy Of Duplexes (2022) Keychain-PKCS11 - Shared library that implements a PKCS#11 interface to the Apple Security framework.liblithium - Lightweight and portable cryptography library.Researchers Identify ‘Master Problem’ Underlying All Cryptography (2022) (HN )Secret Colors: A Gentle Introduction to Cryptography Web Cryptography API Examples Elliptic Curve Cryptography: A Basic Introduction (2020) (HN )LibHydrogen - Lightweight, secure, easy-to-use crypto library suitable for constrained environments.Awesome TSS - Curated list of distributed key generation and threshold signatures implementations.Explaining Yao's Garbled Circuits (2022) Themes from Real World Crypto 2022 Coze - Cryptographic JSON messaging specification designed for human readability.Some Cryptography Books I Like (2022) (HN )Handbook of Applied Cryptography Crypto means cryptography (2022) Guidance for Choosing an Elliptic Curve Signature Algorithm in 2022 Google open sourced PSP (hardware cryptographic offload) (2022) (HN )Ask HN: Best book on modern cryptography? (2022) Visualizing Elliptic Curves (HN )Elligator - Hiding cryptographic key exchange as random noise. (Lobsters )NIST Announces First Four Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Algorithms (2022) (Reddit )KEMs and Post-Quantum age (2022) Cryptography II | Coursera Sycret - Function Secret Sharing library for Python and Rust with hardware acceleration.Paranoid Crypto - Checks for well known weaknesses on cryptographic artifacts such as public keys, digital signatures and general pseudorandom numbers.A Wide Reduction Trick (2022)