Hi, I don't know if that is of any interest but someone around here might care about the fact that Sage was probably the most mentioned (and cited) mathematics software at the "First Conference for Symbolic Computation and Cryptography" (SCC 2008) in Beijing.
Specifically, these authors/papers mentioned Sage: * Tobias Eibach and Gunnar Völkel: Optimising Gröbner Bases on Bivium (used Sage to implement attack) * Burçin Eröcal: SCrypt: Using Symbolic Computation to Bridge the Gap Between Algebra and Cryptography (module for Sage) * Ralf-Philipp Weinmann and Johannes Buchmann: Distributed Memory Computation of Row-Reduced Echelon Forms over Finite Fields (benchmarked against Sage) * Yours truly and Carlos Cid: Algebraic Techniques in Differential Cryptanalysis (used Sage to implement attack) (... yes, I know that 3 out of 4 are Sage developers, but still ...) Another thing:Two talks dealt with Braid group cryptography, namely: * Robert Gilman, Alex D. Miasnikov, Alexei G. Myasnikov and Alexander Ushakov: New Developments in Commutator Key Exchange * Alex D. Myasnikov and Alexander Ushakov: Cryptanalysis of the Anshel-Anshel-Goldfeld-Lemieux Key Agreement Protocol The group developed a C++ library CRAG: """ The Cryptography And Groups (CRAG) Library provides an environment to test cryptographic protocols constructed from non-commutative groups, for example the braid group. The Library is written in C++ and provides an interface and routines for computations. There are implementations of basic algebraic objects like words, maps and subgroups. We plan to continually expand the list of group-theoretic algorithms implemented in the library. In addition the Library will contain classes and routines implementing non-classical heuristic approaches and tools to perform statistical and exploratory analysis of algebraic data. Together with the C++ source code CRAG contains interface to Python scripting language. """ http://www.acc.stevens.edu/downloads.php I don't know much about group theory but still I figured someone might find it interesting and is able to evaluate if it could be a good addition to Sage. Cheers, Martin -- name: Martin Albrecht _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 _www: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~malb _jab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
