CGC Bulletin

Dedicated to Combinatorial Group Theory and Cryptography

Description. This Bulletin deals mainly with the fascinating new branch in cryptography that seeks to find public-key cryptosystems that are applicable today and are immune against the potential threat of future quantum computers. The main platforms for constructing such cryptosystems are noncommutative groups, and the main tools come from combinatorial and geometric group theory.

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Previous issues

Issue 1 (Nov '05)
Issue 2 (Dec '05)
Issue 3 (Jan '06)
Issue 4 (Jan '06)
Issue 5 (Mar '06)
Issue 6 (Apr '06)
Issue 7 (Jun '06)
Issue 8 (Jul '06)
Issue 9 (Sep '06)
Issue 10 (Dec '06)
Issue 11 (Feb '07)
Issue 12 (Mar '07)
Issue 13 (Apr '07)
Issue 14 (Jul '07)
Issue 15 (Sep '07)
Issue 16 (Nov '07)
Issue 17 (Dec '07)
Issue 18 (Feb '08)
Issue 19 (May '08)
Issue 20 (Jun '08)
Issue 21 (Aug '08)
Issue 22 (Sep '08)
Issue 23 (Dec '08)
Issue 24 (Feb '09)
Issue 25 (Apr '09)
Issue 26 (Aug '09)
Issue 27 (Oct '09)
Issue 28 (Dec '09)
Issue 29 (Mar '10)
Issue 30 (Jun '10)
Issue 31 (Oct '10)
Issue 32 (Dec '10)
Issue 33 (Feb '11)
Issue 34 (May '11)
Issue 35 (Sep '11)
Issue 36 (Feb '12)
Issue 37 (Jun '12)
Issue 38 (Mar '13)
Issue 39 (Jul '13)
Issue 40 (Nov '13)
Issue 41 (May '14)
Issue 42 (Dec '14)
Issue 43 (Jun '15)
Issue 44 (Jan '16)
Issue 45 (Dec '17)

A journal dedicated to CGC and related areas

Groups, Complexity, Cryptology (GCC): In the areas of combinatorial and computational group theory, complexity theory, and cryptology. Preference is given to papers that touch upon at least two of these areas. Published by Walter de Gruyter.

Some recommended cryptography books

General

Bruce Schneier, Applied Cryptography: A very good introduction to all interesting aspects of cryptography, with a huge number of examples and at a lively informal style.

Elliptic curves

Henri Cohen, Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography: Perhaps the most comprehensive and updated book on the topic.

More cryptology journals

Journal of Cryptology: Currently the strongest journal in the field. Covers all branches in cryptography.

Journal of Mathematical Cryptology (JMC): A new, very promising, journal with emphasis on mathematical aspects of cryptography.

Additional journals. There are many other journals that (sometimes) publish cryptology papers, e.g.:

SIAM Journal on Computing
Information and computation
Advances in Mathematics of Communications
Designs, codes, and cryptography
Information Processing Letters
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC)
LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics
Journal of Computer Security
International Journal of Information Security
Experimental Mathematics
Journal of Discrete Mathematical Sciences & Cryptography
Applied Mathematics Letters
Theory of Computing Systems
Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing
International Journal of Algebra and Computation
Computers and Security
International Journal of Network Security
Cryptologia

Only some of them are well known. You can find most of them using Google.

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