Big Seven Study (2016): 7 open source Crypto-Messengers to be compared (English/Deutsch)


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Provided with two columns in German & English Language / Zweispaltig in deutscher & englischer Sprache. BIG SEVEN STUDY about 7 open source Crypto-Messengers for Encryption at the Desktop: A contribution in the cryptographic-discussion - The two security researchers David Adams (Tokyo) and Ann-Kathrin Maier (Munich), who examined in their BIG SEVEN study seven well-known encryption applications for e-mail and instant messaging out of the open source area, performed then a deeper IT-audit for the acquainted software solution GoldBug.sf.net. The audit took into account the essential criteria, study fields and methods on the basis of eight international IT-audit manuals and was carried out in 20 dimensions. It identifies Ten Trends in the Crypto-Messaging. Security researcher David Adams from Tokyo about the published BIG SEVEN CRYPTO-study: "We looked at the seven major open source programs for encrypted online-communication and identified ten trends in the Crypto-Messaging area. One of the important trends is the feature, that the users should be able to define a so-called end-to-end encrypting password by themselves manually". The software "GoldBug - email client and instant messenger" here was ahead with excellent results and is not only very trustworthy and compliant to international IT-audit manuals and safety standards, GoldBug also scores in comparison and in the evaluation of the single functions in much greater detail than the other comparable open source crypto messenger. Co-author of the study Ann-Kathrin Maier from Munich confirms: "We have then our Messenger study deepened with a detailed audit of the crypto-program GoldBug, which received excellent results for encrypted email and secure online chat. By our code-reviews we can confirm the trustworthiness of this open source encryption in GoldBug." Numerous details have been analyzed by various methods, compared and also strategically evaluated by the two authors regarding the current encryption discussions. The comparatively studied applications include CryptoCat, GoldBug, OTR-XMPP clients such as Pidgin with the OTR-plugin, RetroShare and Signal, Surespot and Tox.




My first Workshop about Encryption & Cryptography [Pocketbook]


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Within the Learning Material of over 100 open source slides created for Courses, Tutorials and Workshops within Cryptography the authors address topics like: Asymmetric & Symmetric Encryption; Third Epoch of Cryptography: No Key Transport - instead: Derived Keys; Caesura in Cryptography: Juggernaut and Secret Stream Keys; Ciphers & Algorithms & Multi-Encryption: e.g. McEliece & NTRU; Else to know: RNG, MAC, OTP, GNUPG, PKI, Hash, Signatures, GoldBugs, EPKS, SMP; End-to-End Encryption: Instant Perfect Forward Secrecy (IPFS); Cryptographic Calling: e.g. Two-Way-Calling, Repleo, EPKS, AutoCrypt; Volatile Encryption & Exponential Encryption; Cryptographic Discovery & Cryptographic Tokens; Echo Protocol & Graph Theory; POPTASTIC Protocol: Chat over POP3/IMAP; Spot-On Encryption Suite as elaborated Software for Learning & Tutorials; Quantum Computing and Cryptography; Frameworks & Libraries: e.g. McNoodle McEliece library (C++); Tools: POPTASTIC Delta Chat, Smoke McEliece Java Messenger, et al.; Trends on Crypto Messaging & Open Source Cryptography; Encryption of the Hard Disc, Text and Files, P2P Networks; Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) & SAM Architecture; National Sovereignty of cryptographic projects and open source worldwide contributions.




Caesura in Cryptography


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Within the Learning Material of over 100 open source slides created for Courses, Tutorials and Workshops within Cryptography the authors address topics like: Asymmetric & Symmetric Encryption; Third Epoch of Cryptography: No Key Transport - instead: Derived Keys; Caesura in Cryptography: Juggernaut and Secret Stream Keys; Ciphers & Algorithms & Multi-Encryption: e.g. McEliece & NTRU; Else to know: RNG, MAC, OTP, GNUPG, PKI, Hash, Signatures, GoldBugs, EPKS, SMP; End-to-End Encryption: Instant Perfect Forward Secrecy (IPFS); Cryptographic Calling: e.g. Two-Way-Calling, Repleo, EPKS, AutoCrypt; Volatile Encryption & Exponential Encryption; Cryptographic Discovery & Cryptographic Tokens; Echo Protocol & Graph Theory; POPTASTIC Protocol: Chat over POP3/IMAP; Spot-On Encryption Suite as elaborated Software for Learning & Tutorials; Quantum Computing and Cryptography; Frameworks & Libraries: e.g. McNoodle McEliece library (C++); Tools: POPTASTIC Delta Chat, Smoke McEliece Java Messenger, et al.; Trends on Crypto Messaging & Open Source Cryptography; Encryption of the Hard Disc, Text and Files, P2P Networks; Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) & SAM Architecture; National Sovereignty of cryptographic projects and open source worldwide contributions.




Transformation of Cryptography


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The authors analyze over two dozen fundamental concepts of encryption, milestones, mega-trends and sustainable change in regard to Secret Communications. Beginnings and terminations within process and product life cycles lead in sum to a "Transformation of Cryptography", which requires an interdisciplinary approach: Innovative breakthroughs in Cryptography are discussed within this essay as a third Epoch of Cryptography like the solving of the key transport problem with the Cesura in Cryptography by Secret Strems and also with Juggerknot Keys. Multi-Encryption and the Exponential Encryption requires New Thinking for Cryptoanalysis - in alliance with the described concepts of e.g. Cryptographic Calling, Cryptographic Discovery and Fiasco Forwarding with Fiasco Keys. Mathematicians have with the calculation of the truth the human right of privacy in their hands - on the other side elaborated competencies and skills in the internet age are required e.g. to program applications and also to update first the terms and nomenclatura of today interfering interdisciplinary scientific views. As an educational outlook the further Democratization of Encryption is based on discussing the Transformations of Cryptography in teaching lessons and on the development of open source programming's, which provide not only insight in their codes, processes and algorithms, but also provide e.g. with Virtual Keyboards within the same computational process a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) and a technical- and network-oriented solution for "Going the Extra-Mile": What that is? is described in detail at the end of this edition.




Human Proxies in Cryptographic Networks


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Human Proxies offer new directions to end-to-end encryption: End-A-to-End-Z encryption must be rethought when it turns out to be an End-B-to-End-Z encryption. And, Human Proxies raise questions that were neither answered by science, journalists nor the public. Regular Proxies on a network are forwarding Internet requests, e.g., to download a webpage. Also, in political and social settings a Proxy as an intermediate, deputy or representative with a similar function is given. Human Proxies now enable within the Encryption and Messenger Application Spot-On to choose a friend as a Human Proxy. The Spot-On program is a most modern and elaborated encryption suite available for several operation systems and provides many innovations in applied cryptography. It builds based on the Echo Protocol a cryptographic network, that is beyond Cryptographic Routing. With Human Proxies now a friend from the Messenger friends list sends out the chat message instead of the original sender. The construct of the "Inner Envelope" behind the Human Proxy function also creates new cryptographic challenges, provides plausible deniability to included nodes, and offers new perspectives in encryption, its analysis and decryption: As all messages in the network are encrypted, end-to-end encryption is new defined and gets with Human Proxies a potential second and plausible deniable start point. The essay in this book discusses some related aspects of Human Proxies and their referring's to encryption, networking, graph theory and comparable social and political processes of Proxies. This leads to a further general approach: Endpoints in Encryption are equipped by the application Spot-On with the vision of interoperability of endpoints in communications. | English & German language.




SUPER SECRETO - The Third Epoch of Cryptography


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The global crisis of Privacy in the 21st century also includes discussions about the right to encryption and restrictions on so-called end-to-end encryption. In order to communicate confidentially and secure against eavesdropping, simple and practical encryption is required for everyone. But how can it be available to everyone? The magic of replacing legible characters with other apparently random and therefore illegible characters had been almost religious for centuries: only those initiated into the invention of a secret language could crack the messages. Encryption remained Super Secreto - Top Secret - Streng Geheim! In the age of smartphone and pocket computers, it is now available to everyone: ever more sophisticated math calculates the so-called cipher text with corresponding keys in our messengers. Both keys and encrypted text used to have to be transmitted to the recipient. In today's Epoch of Cryptography, the transmission of the keys is no longer necessary: The risky transport route for the keys can even be omitted! From the fascination of how Cryptography became abstinent in the transmission of keys - what effect it has on the desire of state agencies for secondary keys - and how multiple and exponential encryption makes resistant against the decryption-attempts of super-quantum-computers ... ... tells Theo Tenzer in this exciting political, technical and socially relevant innovation and science portrait on the Third Epoch of Cryptography.




Nomenclatura - Encyclopedia of modern Cryptography and Internet Security


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This "Encyclopedia of modern Cryptography and Internet Security" brings the latest and most relevant coverage of the topic - expanding a lot of relevant terms and central key words: It's a Nomenclatura! # Fundamental information on modern Cryptography and Internet Security in a broadband overview. # Extensive resource with most relevant explanations of keywords and terms. # Introduction article by editing authors on "Transformation of Cryptography". # Effective handbook for students, tutors and researching professionals in many fields and lecturing and developing experts of all levels to deepen the existing knowledge of the "nomenclatura" of these topics from Information Theory, Applied Mathematics, Technological Impact Assessment, for sure Linguistic, and Computational Methods of Engineering, Programming etc.. # Including the didactic game for teaching: "Cryptographic Cafeteria". # With bibliographic references to start further readings. # Appearing in an A-Z format, Nomenclatura - The Encyclopedia of modern Cryptography and Internet Security provides easy, intuitive access to scientific information on all relevant aspects of Cryptography, Encryption and Information and Internet Security. This modern Encyclopedia is broad in scope, covering everything from AutoCrypt and Exponential Encryption to Zero-Knowledge-Proof Keys including explanations on Authentication, Block Ciphers and Stream Ciphers, Cryptanalysis and Security, Cryptographic Calling and Cryptographic Discovery, Cryptographic Protocols like e.g. the Echo-Protocol, Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Fiasco Forwarding, Goldbugs, Hash Functions and MACs, Juggling Juggernauts and Juggerknot Keys, McEliece, Multi-Encryption, NTRU, OTM, Public Key Cryptography, Patch-Points, POPTASTIC, Quantum Computing Cryptography, Secret Streams, Turtle Hopping, Two-Way-Calling and many more... This introducing and cross-linking reference has been published in two popular formats: print and as eBook. The printed book edition has been created very affordable, so that each interested Reader, Researcher, Student and Tutor - and Library - is able to get this book with an investment comparable to a lunch meal to democratize easy-accessible and readable knowledge in one spot for Cryptography, Encryption and Internet Security.




Open- Source- Verschlüsselung - Sonderausgabe


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Das vorliegende Buch bietet eine Übersicht an quell-offenen Software-Programmen und -Projekten zur Verschlüsselung. Sie sind zentral, um Bürger:innen einen Schutz vor Überwachung sowie eine Perspektive zur Absicherung des Briefgeheimnisses und ihrer Privatheit zu ermöglichen. Mit diesem Band "Open-Source Verschlüsselung - Quell-offene Software zur Demokratisierung von Kryptographie: Schutz vor Überwachung" legt der Verein Aktion Freiheit statt Angst e.V. (Freedom not Fear), Mitglied im Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung (AK Vorrat), die Publikation von Theo Tenzer über den kryptographischen Wandel "Super Secreto - Die dritte Epoche der Kryptographie" als eine Re-Print-Sonderausgabe des dritten Bandes seiner dreibändigen Ausgabe mit einem Vorwort des Vereins vor: Ein Übersichts-Taschen-Buch eben zu den wichtigen digitalen Verschlüsselungs-Apps und Privacy-Tools: Beginnend mit der Festplatten-Verschlüsselungs-Software VeraCrypt, weiterhin der Verschlüsselungs-Suite Spot-On, sowie Werkzeugen zur Verschlüsselung von Dateien und deren Transfer bis hin zu einem Überblick an quell-offenen Messengern mit Verschlüsselung und eigenen Chat-Servern, dem Quantum-Computing-sicheren McEliece-Messaging, dem anonymen Websurfen mit dem Tor-Browser - oder einem VPN oder Proxy ... etc. Die weiteren Bände CRYPTO-WARS und QUANTEN-COMPUTER zu dieser Drei-Bände-Reihe sind ebenso erhältlich.




Codes and Ciphers - A History of Cryptography


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This vintage book contains Alexander D’Agapeyeff’s famous 1939 work, Codes and Ciphers - A History of Cryptography. Cryptography is the employment of codes and ciphers to protect secrets, and it has a long and interesting history. This fantastic volume offers a detailed history of cryptography from ancient times to modernity, written by the Russian-born English cryptographer, Alexander D'Agapeyeff. The contents include: - The beginnings of Cryptography - From the Middle Ages Onwards - Signals, Signs, and Secret Languages - Commercial Codes - Military Codes and Ciphers - Types of Codes and Ciphers - Methods of Deciphering Many antiquarian texts such as this, especially those dating back to the 1900s and before, are increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.




Modern Cryptography


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Leading HP security expert Wenbo Mao explains why "textbook" crypto schemes, protocols, and systems are profoundly vulnerable by revealing real-world-scenario attacks. Next, he shows how to realize cryptographic systems and protocols that are truly "fit for application"--and formally demonstrates their fitness. Mao presents practical examples throughout and provides all the mathematical background you'll need. Coverage includes: Crypto foundations: probability, information theory, computational complexity, number theory, algebraic techniques, and more Authentication: basic techniques and principles vs. misconceptions and consequential attacks Evaluating real-world protocol standards including IPSec, IKE, SSH, TLS (SSL), and Kerberos Designing stronger counterparts to vulnerable "textbook" crypto schemes Mao introduces formal and reductionist methodologies to prove the "fit-for-application" security of practical encryption, signature, signcryption, and authentication schemes. He gives detailed explanations for zero-knowledge protocols: definition, zero-knowledge properties, equatability vs. simulatability, argument vs. proof, round-efficiency, and non-interactive versions.