Security and cryptography
8 papers, 1975 to 2008.
- The Protection of Information in Computer Systems
eight design principles, least privilege among them
- New Directions in Cryptography
a shared secret agreed in public, and the idea of a public key
- A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems
trapdoor one-way functions from the difficulty of factoring
- Using Encryption for Authentication in Large Networks of Computers
nonces, a trusted third party, and the protocol that taught the field to look for flaws
- Probabilistic Encryption
semantic security, and why deterministic encryption cannot have it
- Kerberos: An Authentication Service for Open Network Systems
tickets from a key distribution centre, deployed for real
- Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance
agreement with a third of the replicas lying, at a usable cost
- Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
proof of work as Sybil resistance, and the longest chain as the truth