Hey you!

You want to teach someone about a crypto concept, something 101 that could be explained in 1-2 pages with a lot of diagrams? Look no more, we need you.

Concept

The idea is to have a recurrent benevolent e-magazine (like POC||GTFO) that focuses on:

• cryptography: duh! That being said, cryptography does include: implementations, cryptocurrencies, protocols, at scale, politics, etc. so there are more topics that we deem interesting than just theoretical cryptography.
• pedagogy: heaps of diagrams and a focus on teaching. Taking an original writing style is a plus. We’re looking not to bore readers.
• 101: we’re looking for introductions to concepts, not deeply technical articles that require a lot of initial knowledge to grasp.
• short: articles should be similar to a blog post, not a full-fledged paper. With that in mind articles should be around 1, 2 or 3 pages. We are not looking for something dense though, so no posters, rather a submission should be a light read that can be part of a series or influence the reader to read more about the topic.

Topics

Preferably, authors should write about something they are familiar with, but here is a list of topics that would likely be interesting for such a light magazine:

• what is SSH?
• what is SHA-3?
• what is functional encryption?
• what is TLS 1.3?
• what is a linear differential attack?
• what is a cache attack?
• how does LLL work?
• what are common crypto implementation tricks?
• what is R-LWE?
• what is a hash-based signature?
• what is an RFC?
• what is the IETF?
• what is the IACR?
• why are companies encrypting databases?
• what is x509, .pem, asn.1 and base64?
• etc…

Format

LaTeX if possible.

Deadline

No deadline at the moment.

How to submit

send me a dropbox link or something on the contact page, you can also send it to me via twitter

PS: I am going to annoy you if you don’t use diagrams in your article