Talk:Student Projects:Encryption Use

References

--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.

General

• Handbook of Applied Cryptography

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

No information yet, some in other documents

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/
• 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 if we need to.

• Intro
  • Similar to project description on front page
• Background on Encryption (Josh)
  • Basic encryption concepts
  • Terms and vocab used throughout the paper
• Historical Incidents (Andrew)
  • How has encryption been (mis)used in the past
• Encryption Policy (Steven)
  • Government regulations and policies
• Analysis (All)
  • How policy has played a role in encryption events and looking forward what should be done
• Conclusion

Open Issues

--Jopos 20:44, 1 Nov 2004 (PST) Hey guys, I think this section might be useful to discuss any open issues or ideas that we may have. After all, this is a discussion page. Feel free to post questions and comments about the project so that we can all benefit from it.