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The most important cryptography papers

by gits1225 on 5/3/2024, 1:06:19 PM with 16 comments
  • by tob_scott_a on 5/3/2024, 5:53:05 PM

    Recommended for this list:

    1. https://archiv.infsec.ethz.ch/education/fs08/secsem/bleichen... - This is necessary to scare newbies away from implementing textbook RSA

    2. https://www.iacr.org/archive/eurocrypt2002/23320530/cbc02_e0... - Vaudenay's attack on CBC mode is essential to practitioners

    3. https://mega-awry.io/pdf/mega-malleable-encryption-goes-awry... - A real world attack on Mega's encryption

    Unfortunately, most interesting cryptanalysis results are easier to find as blog posts than academic papers.

    For example: the Frozen Heart vulnerability in zero-knowledge proof systems that rely on the weak Fiat-Shamir transform.

    https://blog.trailofbits.com/2022/04/13/part-1-coordinated-d...

    https://blog.trailofbits.com/2022/04/15/the-frozen-heart-vul...

    https://blog.trailofbits.com/2022/04/18/the-frozen-heart-vul...

    These blog posts are great, but they aren't academic papers, so they may not qualify for your list.

  • by daghamm on 5/3/2024, 4:27:11 PM

    This feels more like a posers guide to crypto.

    It includes many "famous" and some overhyped papers, but not the ones you actually need to read to become a cryptographer. For example, I see nothing about cryptoanalysis in that list.

  • by eimrine on 5/3/2024, 1:11:51 PM

    Great resource! I would like to ask the webmaster to show the dates of each work visible without any searching.

  • by gmiller123456 on 5/3/2024, 4:13:23 PM

    Not sure if I'm just not seeing it, does the author(s) state what criteria they used for deciding what to include/exclude?

  • by throwaway72216 on 5/3/2024, 6:06:56 PM

    Good list except one very questionable paper, CryptDB, which is known to have been misleading in its claims and got caught by other cryptographers (after which the CryptDb authors quietly edited their previous paper while also attacking those who found the flaws).

  • by tptacek on 5/3/2024, 3:35:07 PM

    In a historical sense, I guess.

  • by Wistar on 5/3/2024, 3:09:32 PM

    Unsurprised to see Matt Blaze’s name; surprised to not see Josh Benaloh’s name.