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The aim of WikiProject Cryptography is to help editors working on cryptography articles by providing a repository of information and resources, and providing a place for discussions that affect more than one article.

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17 Aug 2024 – Special Collection Service (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Stateroom (surveillance program) by Longhornsg (t · c); see discussion

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16 Feb 2024 – Pretty Good Privacy (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion

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Cryptography articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		1	1				2
GA	1	1		4			6
B	5	16	13	22		7	63
C	28	69	85	127		37	346
Start	17	77	108	265		159	626
Stub	1	13	28	132		79	253
List	1	4		17		4	26
Category					193		193
Disambig					1		1
File					5		5
Project					8		8
Redirect		1	2	8	46		57
Template					28		28
NA	1			1	7		9
Other					15		15
Assessed	54	182	237	576	303	286	1,638
Unassessed				1		200	201
Total	54	182	237	577	303	486	1,839
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 6,233			Ω = 4.81

Lists and categories

Editor oriented lists

Index of cryptography articles – Should list all cryptography related articles so please add any new articles to this list. That makes the nifty tool Recent changes in articles about cryptography work properly.
Category:Cryptography – Crypto images on Wikimedia Commons. (Note that new images should preferably be uploaded to Commons so they can be used in all language Wikipedias.)
Category:WikiProject Cryptography – Should contain all pages within the WikiProject Cryptography, including some discussions and summaries from the early days of the project.
Category:Cryptography articles needing expert attention
Category:Cryptography stubs
Recently created articles on cryptography – The robot AlexNewArtBot searches for newly created articles several times a week. If they contain any cryptography related words the bot lists those articles here.

Reader oriented lists

Topics in cryptography – An annotated list of cryptography topics
Books on cryptography – An annotated list of suggested readings.
List of cryptographers – An annotated list of cryptographers.
Category:Cryptography – Should contain all cryptography articles (most of course in subcategories).

Recognized content

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged (e.g. {{WikiProject Cryptography}}) or categorized correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

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Main page featured articles

Some open tasks

Current tasks for Wikipedia:WikiProject Cryptography

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Improvement to featured or good article status:

Current GA/FA articles: Alan Turing
Potential GA/FA candidate articles:
- Hash functions: SMASH (hash)
- Block cipher misc topics: IAPM (mode)
- Cryptanalysis: frequency analysis
- Crypto systems: purple code
- Cryptographic tools: digital signature, one time pad, grille (cryptography), secret sharing, substitution cipher, Lattice-based cryptography
- Cryptology software: anonymous remailer, pretty good privacy
- Cryptographers:
- Miscellaneous:

Start from scratch:

- Theory: Computational boundedness
- Hash functions:
- Historical cryptography: TELWA
  - Cipher machines: Alvis (cipher machine), SIGTOT, B-211 or B-21 (cryptography), OMI (machine), Siemens SFM T43, SA-1 (cryptography), BC-543, BC-38, Syko, CORAL, PENELOPE
- Stream ciphers: Fast correlation attack, HBB (cipher)
- Block ciphers: Vino (cipher), BKSQ, Manta (cipher)
- Block cipher misc topics: XECB
- Block cipher cryptanalysis: Yoyo game
- Cryptographers: Vladimir Hall Furman, Joos Scott Vandewalle, Toshio Tokita, Henri Murphy Gilbert, Helena Handschuh, Antoon Bosselaers, Christophe De Cannière, Joseph Lano, Håvard Raddum, Michael Wiener (cryptographer)
- Misc: Elementary cryptography

Expansion / stubs:

Protocols: SCIMP, Signal Protocol

see: Category:Cryptography stubs

Verification:
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Images:
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Active participants

Users who have not made any edit on a page (or talk page) relevant to the WikiProject for the last 3 years have been moved to the inactive list below on 15 th August 2014, with User:MemberBot.

User:Dannyniu - Interested in lattice-based post-quantum cryptography
ww
NealMcB
Noel - mostly interested in the history of cryptography, particularly its influence on WWII, but also have some interest in Internet-related stuff
Arnold Reinhold
Elonka Dunin (also User:Elonka) - Famous unsolved codes, history of cryptography, pencil and paper techniques, steganography, Al Qaeda codes, encrypted sculptures, cryptography in pop culture, code challenges
DRLB - ECC, Provable security.
Intgr
Hut 8.5 - history of cryptography, classical cryptography
Ntsimp - I know a lot about the math, but I'm most interested in the cryptanalysis of block ciphers
AchedDamiman 00:22, 23 May 2007 (UTC) Codemaker and Codebreaker Ultra-Pro.
Trekphiler - mostly WWI- & WW2-era applications & impacts.
SV1XV (talk) - General interest in classical (paper & pencil) cryptography. User of PGP.
Melab-1 00:53, 8 July 2008 (UTC)~[reply]
TedColes Cryptography up to the end of WWII
Nageh (talk · contribs) Everything from theory to protocol design. 21:15, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Doctorhook Number theory related to cryptography, mathematical aspects of cryptography, history of cryptography, assorted other random stuff
Frank Flanagan Hardware public key systems, side channel attacks
JCAla
Flexdream Applications of cryptography.
Dewey420
The Grumpy Hacker (talk) 17:00, 5 October 2012 (UTC) // "I'm interested in all kinds of astronomy."[reply]
RobertHannah89 - Modern cryptography, complexity theory, etc. referencing articles, adding important or interesting results, etc. 07:57, 12 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
irahulpandey
Qscgy256: Pretty much any cryptography topics.
OzLind: Mathematician; PGP & Hashing
BIAOXYZ: Theoretical aspects of cryptography: current - Functional Encryption; before - Secure Multi-party Computation.
Carnivorous Bunny (talk)
The Yeti
Luiz Carvalho - Elliptic Curve Cryptography and Number Theory
NCG - working on an article on offline/online signature. Talk to me if you want to join.
User:GLDNONE - Chartography + Forensic Archaeology, Mapped and Painted Ciphers, Trove and Artifact Location, Numerology, Cracked Kryptos K5 and locations, Knights Templar Codes and Parchments, Confirmed Beale and Peralta / Lost Dutchman Solves (see Beale Ciphers Wiki Page for full description). Contact for more information and or collaborations on unbroken solves of antiquity or of older nature.
Cryptic Scripture - FODSZQUJPO JT CFBVUJGVM (talk)
JudgeGregg - I'm not a crypto-specialist, but I know how to write texts that non-specialists can understand. A significant part of articles in the scope of this project seems to have a problem with just that. Apologies if I get something wrong in my edits. Any comments are welcome on my talk page!
scope_creep I'm a software engineer, practical side. At the moment, working on German WW2 stuff, Enigma, who made it, tested, personnel, military units. All missing, but WP needs balance. Scope creep (talk) 10:57, 9 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
KingAntenor I specialize in P versus NP problem and others
Paulo Barreto - post-quantum cryptosystems (lattices, codes, isogenies, hash-based signatures), elliptic curves and bilinear pairings, cryptographic sponges, hash functions, blocks ciphers and their modes of operation.
User:Bluedeck - Private key cryptanalysis. Social engineering.
User:Stewart Little - I'm interested in private encryption/cryptography especially on Linux-based systems.
User:Robwahl - Cyber security, math, computer programming, etc..,
User:MarkZusab
User:Nicerobot 17:08, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
User:Duckmather - anything mathematical or copy-editing is good for me
User:A40585 - Interested in applied crypto, but also some theoretical topics,

Inactive members

Matt Crypto (talk · contribs) — ~~block ciphers~~ anything I'm not too dim to understand, but particularly World War II-era crypto.
Arvindn - theory of cryptography
Imran
Dante Alighieri | Talk - drafted after dozens of edits related to restructuring of Enigma page.
Jon
AntS
Decrypt3 - it's why I chose the username.
Peter Hendrickson
CryptoDerk - number theory, galois fields, discrete log, elliptic curves
Cryptosmith - crypto engineering, network protocols
Clement Seveillac - general crypto, crypto software, PKI, smart cards
ciphergoth
Schnolle - PKI related.
Chris Peikert - theoretical crypto (zero-knowledge, multiparty computation, etc.), intersection of coding theory and crypto
ral315 -- I'm an amateur mathematician, freshman in college, and creator of the Math WikiPortal. Check it out sometime!
Ram Moskovitz PKI, software distribution security, DRM, CA Operations
Julian Krause Computer Science Major, interested in all types of cryptography and math.
Levi CS also, computer security-related, can also make images and diagrams.
E=MC^2 Nothing really in particular
I Stanton anything, particularly math related.
Dachshund - elliptic curves, applied crypto
jonelo - security, one way hash algorithms
Nahaj - Implementation issues, Validation issues (Author of the first open source government validated (US, Canada) SHA-1 implmentation, 2000 (two months ago a second such validation appeared, OpenSSL))
Sir Ruptor (Talk) — block ciphers, stream ciphers, hash functions cryptanalysis, stream cipher components (LFSR, NLFSR, NLPFSR, etc.), secure key exchange protocols, reverse engineering related topics
David Göthberg - I used to work with and teach crypto in embedded systems. That is, how to use crypto in cars and other machinery. Back in the 90's I was part of a team that designed a "trusted computing system" for the cars of a big car manufacturer. So far I have mostly written hash related articles and made hash related diagrams. I am mostly interested in crypto from a programmer and protocol point of view and I like to make diagrams. I am not a math guy or cryptanalyst.
Meekohi
Batman900 - Diffie-Hellman problem, Crowds, Degree of anonymity; I am an undergraduate and am studying security at UVA, I am interested in anonymity/cryptography/number theory.
Quarl ^(talk)
Mangojuice (Talk) — theoretical aspects, multiple areas.
MagusMind - theoretical crypto
William Allen Simpson — practical applications
detach - Applying symmetric ciphers in programs, different modes of operation, used blowfish (CBC) and XTEA, would want to put more effort in research other area's
Dr1819 - Random number generation, public/private key cryptography
Silmarillion
Thehumph - general cryptography
the editor1^{(my page)}
Kaine I - dreamer of cryptography, general cryptography/cryptoanalysis
Msoos - My field is computer security + cryptography. I am willing to proofread and correct articles.
Raymondofrish - I'm working on a thesis on some large integer factorization methods.
Stevebkk - historical ciphers
Wintermute314 — Digital signature, Time stamp
jim -crypto v/v
David4286 - I like all kinds of things, I'm particularly interested in various forms of cryptanalysis.
S2z - Interests include number theory, information theory and cryptanalysis.
Shoseido - Digital Signature.
Autarch - classical and modern cryptanalysis. I started entries on Military Cryptanalytics and Lambros D. Callimahos.
Maxt — Theoretical and applied cryptography, cryptology, partially cryptanalysis, cryptographic software.
Dylan Lake
sandmouse I'm fascinated with all types of ciphers...
FactsOnly - Fun Stuff
—Rand fan !! 16:54, 18 November 2006 (UTC) -I like this stuff, but am not really good at this stuff.[reply]
RashBold (talk · contribs) - general interest in ciphers, especially 20th century.
Vapor One - General interest in covert communication.
Limn - Just about all things cryptography-related.
Sean
Lighthead ^þ - Interested in all kinds of coding, especially codes that are beneath our awareness in terms of psychology.
Samrsharma - All kinds of cryptography.
Blokhead - theoretical foundations based on computational complexity: formal definitions, computational hardness assumptions, protocols with provable security
ParanoidMike - EFS, RMS, BitLocker, Windows PKI, cryptographic risks and mitigations
xDanielx - Algorithm comparison & analysis, etc.
Ronyz - Modern Cryptography.
Counterforensics - do cryptologic research for a living.
Ian Harvey - design commercial Hardware Security Modules for a living.
Ivan Akira (talk) - I like encryption algorithm and want to help in this project.
Protonk (talk) General Interest. No vocational experience.
Decateron - Interested in number theory, logic, and computability. Both historical and contemporary cryptography.
NoDepositNoReturn - general cryptography theory and practice, modern cryptography, traffic analysis and anonymity.
Howard Vigorita - Algorithm analysis and optimization
-- TinuCherian ^{(Wanna Talk?)} - 06:45, 27 June 2008 (UTC) Crypography related to computers and computing[reply]
KSinitski - financial transactions cryptography, cryptographic key management.
Thedjatclubrock - Interested in Cryptography.
Noah Salzman — General interest in cryptography and security
DocDeel516 - Mathematics, theoretical physics, anything of the such. Cryptography historian.
Gavia immer modern cryptography, security proofs, and real-world implementations
Kcrao Software developer working on 802.11 drivers and protocol implementations. I have worked on several 802.11 related security protocols and supplicants. My interests include PKI, various EAP methods, SSL/TLS, 802.11i, etc.
CryptoTech VHDL and C implementations of crytographic algorithms, Secure communication protocols, Cryptanalysis of communication systems
Chrismiceli Authentication, signatures, anti-computer forensics
Jarhed Business application of cryptography, especially PKI and SSL
Kumar A little bit on Lattice Based Cryptography, its history and history of other cryptographic schemes in general.
Vishay Vanjani IPSEC,SSL,SSH
BigK HeX (talk · contribs)
Htonl (talk · contribs) - hash functions, maybe a little lattice-based stuff and ECC
charlesreid1 Computational aspects of cryptography, practical cryptography (computer networks, file encryption, etc.), number theory
Guymacon Researcher in the area of low cost, low energy use, high computational power custom hardware suitable for massively parallel brute force attacks.
Hawk777 I'm a computer science student working in systems and security; my area of expertise is modern cryptography in the area of protocols (not so much primitives).
OKelly

Cryptography in other Wikimedia projects

Free content

The GNU Privacy handbook (GFDL)
PlanetMath article on Cryptography and Number Theory (GFDL)
Cracking DES (public domain, apart from a couple of chapters which reproduce published papers)
NIST documents on Cryptography, mostly the FIPS standards
Greg Goebel's Codes, Ciphers, & Codebreaking — public domain.
CryptoDox — crypto wiki licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License

Other cryptography encyclopedias

David E. Newton's Encyclopedia of Cryptology (ISBN 0874367727), 1998, has over 550 articles with an overall slant on the history of cryptography, but plenty of modern topics included as well.
The Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security 684 pages, (Aug 10, 2005), Springer (ISBN 038723473X) [1], [2] has some notable cryptographers contributing (e.g. Eli Biham writing Differential cryptanalysis, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen writing Rijndael). 460 articles with a technical summary / academic focus. 2500 references cited.
Microsoft® Encyclopedia of Security, 800 pages (May 14, 2003), Microsoft Press International, ISBN 0735618771. (Table of contents)^{[dead link‍]}. While covering the entire field of security, it has entries on a number of crypto topics.

Templates

Article talk page

We might wish to tag the Talk: pages of articles which are directly about cryptography with a notice about this WikiProject. For this purpose, there is {{WikiProject Cryptography}}, which expands to the following:

Cryptography: Computer science Unassessed

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Discussion at: Template talk:Infobox block cipher.

Currently trialling Template:Infobox block cipher on AES, Blowfish, DEAL, DES, FEAL, GOST, IDEA, LOKI97, MISTY1, RC2, RC5, Serpent, Square, TEA, Triple DES, Twofish, XTEA

(Would) Need to apply to: 3-Way, Camellia, CAST-128, CAST-256, CMEA, DES-X, GDES, Iraqi block cipher, KASUMI, Khafre, KHAZAD, Khufu, LOKI89/91, Lucifer, MAGENTA, MARS, MMB, NewDES, Red Pike, S-1, SAFER, SHARK, Skipjack, RC6.

Instead of {{stub}}, you might want to use {{crypto-stub}}. One advantage is that Category:Cryptography stubs gives a list of all the cryptography-related stubs. The message is:

This cryptography-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

If you add this userbox to your userpage you get automatically included in the Category:WikiProject Cryptography participants. It produces:

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Navigational templates

Cryptography has some navigational elements to make it easier for a reader to find related topics.

The main crypto navigation box

It produces:

This template is the main crypto navigation box. It can be added to the bottom of any cryptography article. This template also has some magic so it can include one or more of the specialised crypto navigation boxes inside the same frame.

To only use this template alone add this code to the bottom of an article:

{{crypto navbox}}

If you want it to also show for instance the specialised navigation box about stream ciphers then give it the "stream" parameter, like this:

{{crypto navbox | stream}}

You can also add several boxes in it, like this:

{{crypto navbox | block | stream}}

Note that the parameters come sort of in backwards order. In the example above the stream cipher box will be on top, followed by the block cipher box and then with the main crypto "navbox" at the bottom.

Here is an invalid example since "navbox" should not be a parameter but instead is part of the address of this template:

{{crypto stream | navbox}}

The available specialised boxes are:

block, stream, public-key, hash, machines, classical

For more details about these navigation boxes please see the description on the page of the main crypto navigation box itself. Below are examples of usage with the specialised boxes.