malko@altger (12/13/87)
Hello you you crypto types ! ... i'm a high-school graduate (K13, fortunately only half a year every-day school life). It's customary in German schools that every pupil has to write a 'Facharbeit', a comptetent composition (about 30- pages volume) upon a workmanlike theme. For my own part I chose 'cryptology' to write about (in mathematics), because it's very fascinating and i've already been working on one PK-System program (... some problems with large numbers ...) So much for the previous history ... Therefore I'm searching for a survey about all (set in) cryptological stand- ards and if availlible existing public domain software (running on a PC) or src-Code (C,Pascal,Modula) of special utilities; and also information about their definition of 'security' nowadays. Especially: Lucifer, Feistel-Systems, 'DES', Public-Key Systems (RSA(W), Diffie/Hellmann, Merkle/Hellmann, McEliece (and other modifi- cated knapsack systems)) Does anyone have sth. written or know where I can start looking for information ? Ralph ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Horstmann UUCP: ...!uunet!mcvax!unido!altger!malko