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Welcome to Cypherpunks Tonga!cypherpunks.to is a center for research and development of cypherpunk projects such as remailers, anonymous peer-to-peer services, secure network tunnels, mobile voice encryption, untraceable electronic cash, secure operating environments, etc. The slides from Lucky Green’s DEFCON X talk, Trusted Computing Platform Alliance: The mother(board) of all Big Brothers, are now available in the following formats:
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Information (see also: Security Resources)
- Cryptome
- Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on cryptology…
- Cypherpunks.to (Original Cypherpunks Home Page)
- A group of thinkers, programmers and researchers dedicated to preserve everyone’s freedom of speech through action.
- believers in crypto-anarchy,
- leaning towards libertarianism,
- most importantly, cypherpunks write code!
- See also: Cypherpunk Mailing List Archive
- Crypto Archive (Quadralay)
- Lots of good links!
- EPIC report: Cryptography and Liberty 2000
- An International Survey of Encryption Policy
- The Jargon File – a hacker lexicon [ frames]
- Privacy, Profiling & Commerce Protocols from the W3C
- Note especially the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P)
- Security News Network (SNN1)
- used to be HNN (Hacker News Network)
Consulting
- CoMedia Consulting
- Network security consulting.
- Primary developer of OpenPrivacy and Broadcatch.
- Cryptography Research (commercial)
- Check out the attack on SmartCards called Differential Power Analysis
- @stake
- used to be L0pht Heavy Industries
- Sword & Shield (consulting)
- Security Site Links
- Systemics
- Financial Cryptography based on Ian Grigg’s Cryptix Java cryptography toolkit
Hacking / Cracking / Phreaking Resources
(see also: Testing Network Security)
- 2600 Magazine
- The Hacker Quarterly
- AntiOnline – educating you about the weaknesses in your system
- „A Rick’s Cafe in the Casablanca world of hacking”
- Fight Back! (against people hacking into your system)
- Phreaking box archive
- Burn
- Anarchy Now (RIP)
- Fravia (if down, try here)
- Software reverse engineering and web survival arguments
- See e.g. Academy of Reverse Engineering
- DigiCrime
- Humor? Worth a visit — thought provoking & fun.
- Hackers.com
- Neophyte Text File Haven
- Guide to Lock Picking
- Additional Lock-Picking Resources
- „The Links”
- RootShell.com
- Silicon Toad (RIP)
- Phrack
- Archive
Anonymizers
- The Anonymizer
- A service that allows you to surf the web without revealing any personal information
- Crowds
- Crowds operates by grouping users into a large and geographically diverse group (crowd) that collectively issues requests on behalf of its members.
- IDcide
- „enables responsible corporations to control their online personal information practices in a dynamically changing environment”
- IDzap
- provides anonymous web access services
- iProxy: An Agent-Based Middleware
- „designed to give Internet users the privacy that they deserve and to counter the attempts by certain organizations and groups to police the minds of people participating in a global community.”
- The Lucent Personalized Web Assistant (LPWA)
- A research demonstration tool that enables you to enjoy personalized services on the Web while preserving your privacy.
- Onion Routing (See also: onion-router.net)
- A Navy research project working to build Internet systems that are strongly resistant to traffic analysis, eavesdropping, etc.
- Onion routing is used by ZKS and was originally by the cypherpunk‘s encrypting anonymous remailers.
- SafeWeb
- A next-generation anonymizer
- Zero Knowledge Systems
- Freedom – Privacy technology that empowers you to manage your identity on the Internet
Remailers and Privacy-Enhanced Email (see also: PGP)
- Hushmail
- web-based email with end-to-end security
- Mixmaster Remailers
- Mixmaster is the next generation of remailers, using advanced techniques to make most methods of tracing remailed messages useless.
- Remailer List at Publius.net
- An excellent resource with lots of useful information and links, including nym.alias.net
- The original cypherpunks remailers page
- More remailers, and still more from Yahoo!
Censorship-resistant Anonymous Publishing
- Eternity Service
- A distributed document store which is hard to censor.
- Based on Ross Anderson‘s paper The Eternity Service
- Free haven
- a system for distributed data storage which is robust against attempts by powerful adversaries to find and destroy stored data
- The Freenet Project
- a peer-to-peer network designed to allow the distribution of information over the Internet in an efficient manner, without fear of censorship.
- Janus
- Anonymity for content providers in the World Wide Web
- Or do you want to use rewebber.de
- Mojo Nation
- Mojo Nation creates a digital marketplace for the exchange of idle disk space, bandwidth, and CPU cycles
- OpenPrivacy.org
- An open source, crytographically secure, transparent to the user, distributed platform for creating, maintaining, and selectively sharing profile information
- Publius
- a Web publishing system that is highly resistant to censorship and provides publishers with a high degree of anonymity
- TAZ Servers and the Rewebber Network
- Enabling Anonymous Publishing on the World Wide Web
Ban spam
Social
- Boycott Internet Spam!
- The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE)
- CAUCE Resources
- Pending Legislation
- The Network Abuse Clearinghouse
- JunkBusters
- WSRCC Spam Archives
Technical (See also: Inter-network Security)
- Anti-relaying provisions in Sendmail 8.9
- Anti-Spam provisions in Sendmail 8.8
- Using check_* in Sendmail 8.8
- The WSRCC sendmail-8.8.8 spamfilt.m4 file
- Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS)
- MAPS Realtime Blackhole List (RBL)
- MAPS Relay Spam Stopper (RSS)
- Open Relay Behaviour-modification System (ORBS)
- a validated database of open mail relays and open mail relay output points, accessable via DNS lookup
- Qmail home page
Algorithms and Code
- AES – Advanced Encryption Standard
- The government’s successor to the broken DES based on the Finnish Rijndael algorithm.
- Cryptix
- „An international volunteer effort to produce robust, open-source cryptographic software libraries.”
- Cryptix maintains an excellent resources page.
- Cryptopp.com
- home of crypto++, a public domain crypto library
- cryptopp links to algorithms, products and libraries
- Netscape Security Services (NSS)
- NSS for Java (JSS)
- OpenSSL.org
- based on the excellent SSLeay library developed by Eric A. Young and Tim J. Hudson
- PureTLS
- a free Java-only implementation of the SSLv3 and TLSv1 (RFC2246) protocols
- PGP – Pretty Good Privacy
- The International PGP Home Page (EFF)
- PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is a program that gives your electronic mail something that it otherwise doesn’t have: Privacy. PGP can also be used to apply a digital signature to a message without encrypting it. Find out more, and use this valuable tool for democracy!
- GPG – The GNU Privacy Guard
- GPG is the Free Software (GNU) version of PGP
- See also: the xPrivacy Guard
- PGP/GPGKey Servers
- List of Public Key Servers (from PGPi)
- The WWW Based PGP 5.0 Key Server System
- University of Paderborn
- More links
- PGP 2.6.2 Hypertext documentation
- PGP 2.6.2: FAQ, Known Bugs, and Improvements
- PGP – MIT distribution page
- PGPfone – turns your desktop or notebook computer into a secure telephone
- A Simple Distributed Security Infrastructure (SDSI)
- SPKI/SDSI Certificates
- Common Data Security Architecture (CDSA) by Intel
- CDSA sourceforge code repository
- Pisces
- a Python implementation of the SPKI Certificate standard
- XML Security Suite for Java (IBM)
- This is essentially an implementation of public standards. Please email [email protected] and ask them to release this excellent enabling technology – otherwise, we (or someone else) will simple have to recreate it.
Documentation and Resources
- A Cryptographic Compendium
- by John Savard
- Cryptography A-Z
- SSH Communications Security (Finland)
- Cryptography FAQ
- from RSA Labs
- Cryptography and Security resources
- compiled by Ron Rivest
- OpenBSD Crypto Page
- the OpenBSD project has embedded cryptography into numerous places in the operating system
- Standard Cryptographic Algorithm Naming
- an excellent source of references for definitions and cryptanalysis of various algorithms.
Protocols
- Fling
- a new suite of internet protocols that perform the function of DNS, TCP, and UDP in a manner that’s both untraceable and untappable.
- IP Security Protocol (ipsec)
- designed to flexibly support combinations of authentication, integrity, access control, and confidentiality
- Linux FreeS/WAN
- The idea is to deploy PC-based boxes that will sit between your local area network and the Internet (near your firewall or router) which opportunistically encrypt your Internet packets
Other stuff
- C2.org
- Purveyors of Stronghold, a secure apache-based web-server
- Data Hiding
- the concealing of information in some other form of media
- ReadThis! Java Encoder/Decoder
- Works in conjunction with ReadThis! Palm software
- Secure Shell (SSH)
- OpenSSH.com
- SSH Communications Security (Finland)
- Makers of SSH IPSEC Express