Links

Websites:

• Societies and Research Centres:
  • The International Association for Cryptologic Research
  • Center for Applied Cryptographic Research (Univ. of Waterloo)
• Government Agencies
  • Communications Security Establishment (Canada)
  • Government Communications Headquarters (U.K.)
  • National Security Agency (U.S.)
  • National Institute for Standards and Technology (U.S.)
    • Advanced Encryption Standard
    • Public Key Infrastructure
• Companies
  • Entrust Technologies
  • Certicom Corporation
  • RSA Data Security
  • NTRU Communications and Content Security
• Other Links and Resources
  • Ron Rivest's Crypto-Link Page. Visit this page for many other links and resources.
  • The Enigma Machine
  • Elliptic Curve Cryptography, an online tutorial.
• Some historical notes about mathematicians that might be mentioned in the course:
  • Euclid of Alexandria (~325 BC - ~265 BC)
    
  • Pierre de Fermat (1601 - 1665)
    
  • Leonhard Euler (1707 - 1783)
    
  • Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736 - 1813)