Wiki143:WikiProject Cryptography/March 2005

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File:Crypto key.svg This is a quick summary of what's been happening to crypto-related articles this month (March 2005). For the gory details, you can review the changes here. If I've missed any big edits (I'm sure I have), please feel free to update this summary page. — Matt Crypto 16:46, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
New articles PBKDF2 by User:ArnoldReinhold Acoustic cryptanalysis by User:ArnoldReinhold KG-84 by User:ArnoldReinhold NSA Suite B by User:ArnoldReinhold SECG by User:Matt Crypto MQV by User:Matt Crypto Pigpen cipher by User:Matt Crypto Reihenschieber by User:Matt Crypto ECRYPT by User:Matt Crypto Thawte by User:Ram Moskovitz Secure voice by User:Jnc Pinwheel (cryptography) by User:Securiger Extensible Authentication Protocol by User:Dewet Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol by User:Dewet Fortuna (PRNG) by User:Gareth McCaughan Cramer-Shoup system by User:Schuyler Differential power analysis by an anonymous user. IEEE P1363 by User:ArnoldReinhold Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment by an anonymous user. Project Slavishly following the latest Wikipedia fad, User:Matt Crypto created a Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Cryptography, one potential "start page" for cryptography on the Wikipedia, somewhat similar in style to the Wikipedia Main Page. Amongst other things, the page includes a crypto featured article, a "Did you know" section and a some news items in cryptography. On Talk:Steganography, there is a long-standing challenge to see if anyone can discover an easter egg hidden in an image on Wikipedia. This month, Tim Chambers provided a hint: "It's in Ppeak-s.jpg. That was a few years ago, and I've forgotten exactly how I did it. But I know it was some package I found via Google. I did not encrypt the message. Discovery of the package (and the hidden message) is left as an exercise for the reader. <>< tbc 05:48, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)"	Article improvements Destubbing expansion of VeriSign by User:Ram Moskovitz Revamp of SIGSALY by User:Jnc Colossus computer by User:Jnc Hans-Thilo Schmidt revised and expanded by User:Logologist Kasiski examination by User:R3m0t Brute force attack by User:Matt Crypto Expansion of Merkle-Hellman knapsack cryptosystem by User:ApatheticToTheCause, particularly of the "Decryption" section An "Agency History" section added to NSA by User:Rfc1394 Kerberos operation described in detail by User:Saqib SHA hash functions had pseudocode added for SHA-256. S/KEY expanded and illustrated by User:Lucw FIPS 140 — rewrite by User:Gareth McCaughan OpenPGP merged into PGP by User:JTN Partial rewrite/expansion of Stream cipher by User:Matt Crypto Description of FROG by User:Dianelos (one of the algorithm's designers) Improvements to Caesar cipher by User:Matt Crypto Expansion of SEED by User:Securiger Expansion of Iraqi block cipher by User:Securiger A rewrite of Dining cryptographer's protocol has been started by User:Vesta at Dining cryptographers protocol/Rewrite. Discussions Talk:One-time pad — discussion on whether to include a suggestion about using a one-time pad in cascade with a conventional cipher.
New participants This month, three users have added themselves to the Cryptography WikiProject list: User:Julian Krause, who describes himself as a "Computer Science Major, interested in all types of cryptography and math." User:ArnoldReinhold — not so new, of course ;-) User:Vesta (Levi), who notes that he is "CS also, computer security-related, can also make images and diagrams." WikiReader Cryptography One article slated for the WikiReader in Cryptography is Caesar cipher, which was promoted to Featured Article status this month; see Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Caesar cipher. The article was accepted on 31 March with 6 support votes. Images found by Wikipedians Image:KG-84.navy.jpg found by User:ArnoldReinhold Image:William-Friedman.jpg found by User:Matt Crypto Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg found by User:Matt Crypto Image:Elizebeth-Friedman.jpg found by User:Matt Crypto	Images created by Wikipedians Responding to a request for illustration, User:Stib created the following images for Secret sharing, illustrating Blakley's scheme. Image:Secretsharing-1.png by User:Stib. Image:IntersectingPlanes.png by User:Stib. Image:Secretsharing-3-point.png by User:Stib. Others images created by Wikipedians include: Image:Pigpen.png by User:Matt Crypto Image:A-pigpen-message.png by User:Matt Crypto Image:Nonlinear-combo-generator.png by User:Matt Crypto Image:Lfsr.gif by User:Matt Crypto Image:Skey pwgen.png created by User:Lucw Image:Skey authentication.png created by User:Lucw Image:High level view of FROG.gif provided by User:Dianelos Image:Turing flat.jpg by User:Matt.whitby Images licensed under the GFDL for Wikipedia Image:David Wagner.jpg provided courtesy of David Wagner Image:Vincent-Rijmen.jpg provided courtesy of Vincent Rijmen Image:PRZ closeup.jpg provided courtesy of Phil Zimmermann Image:Bruce-Schneier.jpg provided courtesy of Bruce Schneier
Gallery of new images File:David-Wagner.jpg File:Secretsharing-1.png File:IntersectingPlanes.png File:Secretsharing-3-point.png File:Pigpen.png File:Turing flat.jpg File:Vincent-Rijmen.jpg File:Skey pwgen.png File:Skey authentication.png File:A-pigpen-message.png File:Lfsr.gif File:Nonlinear-combo-generator.png File:KG-84.navy.jpg File:High level view of FROG.gif File:PRZ closeup.jpg File:Bruce-Schneier.jpg File:William-Friedman.jpg File:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg File:Elizebeth-Friedman.jpg