List of important publications in cryptography
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This is a list of important publications in cryptography, organized by field.
Some reasons why a particular publication might be regarded as important:
- Topic creator – A publication that created a new topic
- Breakthrough – A publication that changed scientific knowledge significantly
- Influence – A publication which has significantly influenced the world or has had a massive impact on the teaching of cryptography.
Cryptanalysis
The index of coincidence and its applications in cryptology
- Friedman, William F. (1922). "The index of coincidence and its applications in cryptology". Department of Ciphers. Publ 22. Geneva, Illinois, USA: Riverbank Laboratories.
Description: Presented the
Treatise on the Enigma
- Turing, Alan (1939–1942). Treatise on the Enigma.
Description: The breaking of the Enigma.
The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing
- OCLC 59019141
Description: Almost nothing had been published in cryptography in several decades and very few non-government researchers were thinking about it. The Codebreakers, a popular and non academic book, made many more people aware and contains a lot of technical information, although it requires careful reading to extract it. Its 1967 appearance was followed by the appearance of many papers over the next few years.
Differential Cryptanalysis of DES-like Cryptosystems
- S2CID 206783462.
Description: The method of differential cryptanalysis.
A new method for known plaintext attack of FEAL cipher
- Matsui, Mitsuru; Yamagishi, Atsuhiro (1993). "A New Method for Known Plaintext Attack of FEAL Cipher". ISBN 978-3-540-56413-3.
Description: The method of linear cryptanalysis.
Theory
Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems
- .
Description: Information theory based analysis of cryptography. The original form of this paper was a confidential Bell Labs report from 1945, not the one published.
Probabilistic Encryption
- .
Description: The paper provides a rigorous basis to encryption (e.g., partial information) and shows that it possible to equate the slightest cryptanalysis to solve a pure math problem. Second, it introduces the notion of computational indistinguishability.
Proofs that Yield Nothing But their Validity or All Languages in NP have Zero-Knowledge Proofs
- S2CID 2389804.
Description: This paper explains how to construct a zero-knowledge proof system for any language in NP.
Private key cryptography
Cryptographic Coding for Data-Bank Privacy
- Feistel, Horst (18 March 1970). "Cryptographic Coding for Data-Bank Privacy". IBM Research Report 2827.
Description: Feistel ciphers are a form of cipher of which DES is the most important. It would be hard to overestimate the importance of either Feistel or DES. Feistel pushed a transition from stream ciphers to block ciphers. Although most ciphers operate on streams, most of the important ciphers today are block ciphers at their core.
Data Encryption Standard
- NBS Federal Standard FIPS PUB 46, 15 Jan 1977.
Description: DES is not only one of the most widely deployed ciphers in the world but has had a profound impact on the development of cryptography. Roughly a generation of cryptographers devoted much of their time to attacking and improving DES.
Public Key Cryptography
New directions in cryptography
- .
Description: This paper suggested
On the Signature Reblocking Problem in Public Key Cryptography
- Kohnfelder, Loren M. (1978). "On the Signature Reblocking Problem in Public Key Cryptography". Communications of the ACM. 21 (2): 179.
Description: In this paper (along with
Secure Communications Over Insecure Channels
- S2CID 6967714.
Description: This paper introduced a branch of public key cryptography, known as public key distribution systems. Merkle's work predated "New directions in cryptography" though it was published after it. The Diffie–Hellman key exchange is an implementation of such a Merkle system. Hellman himself has argued[1] that a more correct name would be Diffie–Hellman–Merkle key exchange.
A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public Key Cryptosystems
- S2CID 2873616. Archived from the originalon 2003-12-04.
Description: The
- S2CID 16321225.
Description: A safe method for sharing a secret.
On the security of public key protocols
- Dolev, D.; Yao, A. (1983). "On the security of public key protocols". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 29 (2): 198–208. S2CID 13643880.
Description: Introduced the
Protocols
Using encryption for authentication in large networks of computers
- S2CID 7704786.
Description: This paper introduced the basic ideas of cryptographic protocols and showed how both
Kerberos
- Neuman, B.C.; S2CID 45031265.
- Steiner, J. G.; Neuman, B. C.; Schiller, J. I. (February 1988). "Kerberos: an authentication service for open network systems". Usenix Conference Proceedings. Dallas, Texas.[permanent dead link]
Description: The Kerberos authentication protocol, which allows individuals communicating over an insecure network to prove their identity to one another in a secure and practical manner.
A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection
- .
A Dynamic Network Architecture
- O'Malley, Sean W.; S2CID 17134910.
Description: Network software in distributed systems.
See also
References
- ^ "Hellman: Authentication at every access point". Archived from the original on 2008-10-10. Retrieved 2009-10-03.