The most important cryptography papers
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The most important cryptography papers spanning the past, present, and future of cryptosystems & cryptology.
On the (Im)possibility of Obfuscating Programs
Boaz Barak, Oded Goldreich, Rusell Impagliazzo, Steven Rudich, Amit Sahai, Salil Vadhan, & Ke Yang
Computer Systems Established, Maintained and Trusted by Mutually Suspicious Groups
David L. Chaum
A Digital Signature Based on a Conventional Encryption Function
Ralph C. Merkle
The Knowledge Complexity of Interactive Proof-Systems
Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali, & Charles Rackoffero
Minimal Key Lengths for Symmetric Ciphers to Provide Adequate Commercial Security
Matt Blaze, Whiteld Diffie, Ronald L. Rivest, Bruce Schneier, Tsutomu Shimomura, Eric Thompson, & Michael Wiener
CryptDB: Protecting Confidentiality with Encrypted Query Processing
Raluca Ada Popa, Catherine M. S. Redfield, Nickolai Zeldovich, & Hari Balakrishnan
Protocols for Secure Computations
Andrew C. Yao
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Satoshi Nakamoto
A fully homomorphic encryption scheme
Craig Gentry
On Data Banks and Privacy Homomorphisms
Ronald L. Rivest, Len Adleman, & Michael L. Dertouzos
A fast quantum mechanical algorithm for database search
Lov K. Grover
Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization and Discrete Logarithms on a Quantum Computer
Peter Shor
Use of Elliptic Curves in Cryptography
Victor Miller
Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems
Neal Koblitz
A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public Key Cryptosystems
Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir, & Len Adleman
New Directions in Cryptography
Whitfield Diffie & Martin E. Hellman
Cramming more components onto integrated circuits
Gordon Moore
A Mathematical Theory of Cryptography
Claude E. Shannon
La Cryptographie Militaire
Auguste Kerckhoffs