Cryptosmith

This page provides links to postings I’ve made on various information security topics.

Authentication and Identity Systems

• Design Patterns for Identity Systems
• OpenID Delegation on WordPress

Cryptography

• One-time pad encryption
• Stream Ciphers
• Stream Cipher Reuse: A Graphic Example
• Why we use “modes” with block ciphers

Defense-related security systems

• Multilevel Security Introduction
• Multilevel Security observations and commentary
• Cross Domain Security
• LOCK trusted computing system

Security Evaluations

• Overview of Security Evaluations
• Evaluation trends before the Common Criteria (2000)
• Evaluation trends as of 2006 (PDF)

This page has the following sub pages.

• Security Evaluations
• Using OpenID