Talk:Student Projects:Encryption Use

--Jopos 00:17, 29 Oct 2004 (PDT) - Here are some references so that we can start researching the historical and political aspects of Encryption. They are organized by topic, but some references contain information about all of the aspects of encryption history.

Room 40:

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Room%2040
http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/R/Room-40.htm
http://www.cypher.com.au/crypto_history.htm
http://www.vectorsite.net/ttcode4.html

Ultra:

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Ultra
http://www.freeswan.org/freeswan_snaps/CURRENT-SNAP/doc/politics.html
http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/u/ul/ultra_1.html
http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/nsa/stories/crypto.history/
http://www.oli.tafe.net/library/guides/SampleEssay.pdf

Magic:

Wasnt able to find any references specifically about Magic, but other links contain information about it.

Venona:

http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/v/ve/venona_project.html
http://permanent.access.gpo.gov/lps33230/www.nsa.gov/docs/venona/monographs/monograph-1.html
http://www.mcfly.org/en/VENONA%20project

Policy:

http://www.gilc.org/crypto/crypto-survey.html
http://www.epic.org/crypto/key_escrow/wh_cke_796.html
http://www.cdt.org/crypto/
http://www.epic.org/crypto/

Andrew: I just moved these from the front page to this discussion page::
http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/L/List-of-cryptography-topics.htm
http://world.std.com/~franl/crypto.html

Tentative Paper Outline

--Aterry: Here is a tentative outline for the project along with how we had discussed assigning the sections. John, let us know how you feel about this and where you would like to help. We figured that we'd write the other sections first, then come together and do analysis together after we research the background some more. Feel free to modify/add to this outline with other ideas. josh, Steve, I'm sure I didn't remember everthing on here that we talked about on Saturday. I also put this on our front page under the project description where we can keep track of the "official" outline. Here we can discuss it.

1.Intro

Similar to project description on front page
2.Background on Encryption (Josh)

Basic encryption concepts

Terms and vocab used throughout the paper
3.Historical Incidents (Andrew)

How has encryption been (mis)used in the past
4.Encryption Policy (Steven)

Government regulations and policies
5.Analysis (All)

How policy has played a role in encryption events and looking forward what should be done
6.Conclusion