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 (November 2005)
Issue 2 (December 2005)
Issue 3 (January 2006)
Issue 4 (January 2006)
Issue 5 (March 2006)
Issue 6 (April 2006)
Issue 7 (June 2006)
Issue 8 (July 2006)
Issue 9 (September 2006)
Issue 10 (December 2006)
Issue 11 (February 2007)
Issue 12 (March 2007)
Issue 13 (April 2007)
Issue 14 (July 2007)
Issue 15 (September 2007)
Issue 16 (November 2007)
Issue 17 (December 2007)
Issue 18 (February 2008)
Issue 19 (May 2008)
Issue 20 (June 2008)
Issue 21 (August 2008)
Issue 22 (September 2008)
Issue 23 (December 2008)
Issue 24 (February 2009)
Issue 25 (April 2009)
Issue 26 (August 2009)
Issue 27 (October 2009)
Issue 28 (December 2009)
Issue 29 (March 2010)
Issue 30 (June 2010)
Issue 31 (October 2010)
Issue 32 (December 2010)
Issue 33 (February 2011)
Issue 34 (May 2011)
Issue 35 (September 2011)
Issue 36 (February 2012)
Issue 37 (June 2012)
Issue 38 (June 2012)

A new journal dedicated to CGC and related areas

Groups, Complexity, and 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.