Exploiting Trust Through Cryptography Testing

The development of commercially available encryption and cryptographic methods has been crucial to the adoption of the internet as the engine of the global economy. The web has come a long way from its early days with early browsers such as Erwise and Mosaic delivering static, open information to mainly education users. It is hard to imagine a time when the web was plain-text, when information was transmitted (and stored, for that matter) without any protection against theft or snooping. Now, the financial, personal, and intellectual transactions that the internet facilitates are protected by mathematically-driven algorithms such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL)/ Transport Layer Security (TLS), Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Secure Hashing Algorithm (SHA), and Diffie-Helman (DH). Together, these standards and more, coupled with...