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Cryptography 101 with Alfred Menezes

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by teleforce

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Alfred Menezes has also written a Handbook of Applied cryptography that can be accessed and download for free:
https://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/hac/

by danhau

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What I would like, but haven’t found yet, is a cheat sheet on what up to date encryption method or algorithm one should use for whatever need. A kind of requirement -> algorithm dictionary.
Like, I need to authenticate that a client is a known identity. What algo? How to use it? What to avoid? I need to sign a message or document. How? I need to verify said message. How? I need to store passwords. How?
I know some crypto, but discovering and learning about them is a bit of a pain. For how important crypto is, you‘d think someone would have bothered to teach developers how to choose and deploy these algorithms properly.

by throw0101d

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Something I've been curious about lately:
With symmetric algorithms, e.g. AES, and modes of operation, is there a "best" one? Currently GCM seems to be quite popular. Is there something (an AEAD?) better? Now that the patent of OCB(3?) is expired, is it worth changing?

by zavec

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Oh hey I took his crypto class in fourth year! Fantastic prof, I should check this out to refresh my memory.

by Maksadbek

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It always astonishes me how much useful information you can find on internet being publicly available. You just need a willing to learn.

by baby

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I like that it's called "cryptography 101" but only has post-quantum schemes, this is cool :)