Malicious cryptography
by Adam Young, Moti Yung · first published 2004
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This title describes recent discoveries on how to design advanced malicious computer viruses, worms, and Trojan horses. The area in question has recently been dubbed Crypotovirology, since it involves the application of modern cryptographic techniques to subvert computer systems.
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…Forth - Leo Brodie Forth is wild, this book is wild, it's really a different world. After multiple attempts over 25 years, I'm giving it another go this year and this time it is actually clicking. - Malicious Cryptography: Exposing Cryptovirology - Adam Young, Moti Yung This is way out of my league in terms of cryptography, but this fascinated me early in my career, and led me to implement one or the other algorithm.…
on “Quirky computing books” ↗This is exactly what PIR is for. A good intro is chapter 6 of the (awesome and ahead-of-its-time) book Malicious Cryptography. One of the authors works at the agency now, I believe.
on “NSA OSS Technologies” ↗> dishonest cryptographers There is a book about that, "Malicious Cryptography" by Adam Young and Moti Yung. Not about dishonest cryptographers per se, but about various sneaky tricks that could be used in crypto systems. Anyway I'm sure you remember the notorious Dual EC DRBG.
on “Encryption at Rest: Whose Threat Model Is It Anyway?” ↗Cheers, that's very interesting! I bought this book a while ago - 'Malicious Cryptography: Exposing Crytovirology' I still need to read it more thoroughly but they present some interesting ideas.
on “Neural Nets Can Learn Function Type Signatures from Binaries [pdf]” ↗