Project Resources

[Solar Designer]

Could we gather here (or maybe on a Wiki page) some resources related to
this project?
Source codes, papers, articles, web links, etc. talking about scrypt, SHA-2,
AES and so on are welcome.

Sure. Please feel free to create this wiki page:

http://openwall.info/wiki/crypt

and have a section called "Resources" on it. I imagine that you'll need
to add links to the bcrypt and scrypt papers, to your john/FPGA wiki
page, and then more stuff. I and others may contribute links, too.

For this project, I think we'll need to seriously consider just going
with scrypt vs. revising scrypt vs. designing our own alternative.

Alexander

[Yuri Gonzaga]

Post by Solar Designer
http://openwall.info/wiki/crypt

So, the title should be "crypt"?

and have a section called "Resources" on it. I imagine that you'll need

Post by Solar Designer
to add links to the bcrypt and scrypt papers, to your john/FPGA wiki
page, and then more stuff. I and others may contribute links, too.

Do you have any starting point material to the conceptual part?

Regards,

Yuri Gonzaga

[Solar Designer]

Post by Yuri Gonzaga

Post by Solar Designer
http://openwall.info/wiki/crypt

So, the title should be "crypt"?

Yes, I think "crypt" will work for the wiki page name.

Post by Yuri Gonzaga
Do you have any starting point material to the conceptual part?

I'm not sure what you're asking for. Introduction to cryptography?

You might want to take a look at the Handbook of Applied Cryptography,
which is freely downloadable here:

http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/

(although it obviously does not mention modern hashes/ciphers such as
SHA-2 and AES).

History and concepts of password hashing? Something more specific to
our project?

In terms of history, the bcrypt paper gives a little bit of it, and you
might not need more.

So you can start this wiki page by adding links to:

http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/provos.html
http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html

and to your john/FPGA page.

Alexander

[Yuri Gonzaga]

Post by Solar Designer
I'm not sure what you're asking for. Introduction to cryptography?
(although it obviously does not mention modern hashes/ciphers such as
SHA-2 and AES).
History and concepts of password hashing? Something more specific to
our project?

I am looking specifically for scrypt, SHA-2, AES and anything else is
related to our project.

Yuri Gonzaga

[Solar Designer]

Post by Yuri Gonzaga
I am looking specifically for scrypt,

All info on scrypt is here:

http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html

This includes the paper, presentation slides, and source code for a file
encryption program that includes the scrypt key derivation function.
You need to download all of these and review them. I thought that you
already did...

You may also take a look at this Wikipedia page and review other content
referenced from there:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_derivation_function

Post by Yuri Gonzaga
SHA-2, AES

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard

Post by Yuri Gonzaga
and anything else is related to our project.

A lot of things are relevant to the project to some extent.

Alexander

[Yuri Gonzaga]

Hi, everybody

Could we gather here (or maybe on a Wiki page) some resources related to
this project?
Source codes, papers, articles, web links, etc. talking about scrypt, SHA-2,
AES and so on are welcome.

Thanks.

Yuri Gonzaga.