Cryptography Landscape Atlas
10 areas · 419 papers · 437 contributions

A map of cryptography research, linked to the papers

Ten areas of cryptography, each with an overview of the primitive, comparisons of schemes, protocols, and systems, and a reading list; nine of them also have a map of how contributions build on each other. Every claim links to the paper that supports it.

  1. OverviewWhat the primitive is, its core notions, and what to read first
  2. Research mapHow contributions build on each other over timeNot in AEAD
  3. Open problemsGoals, the ladder of contributions toward each, and the open problems still in the way
  4. ComparisonsSchemes, protocols, and systems side by side: assumptions, security, sizes

Encryption

Keeping data confidential, from symmetric modes to policy-based and homomorphic encryption.

Computing on private data

Joint computation, private retrieval, and verifiable computation.

Signatures

Authenticating messages with one signer or a threshold of signers.