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  Questions for Academics and Cryptographers 711 Spooky Mart <711@spooky.mart> - 2021-09-25 07:07 -0500
    Re: Questions for Academics and Cryptographers Leo <usenet@gkbrk.com> - 2021-09-25 12:39 +0000
      Re: Questions for Academics and Cryptographers 711 Spooky Mart <711@spooky.mart> - 2021-09-26 08:17 -0500

#50117 — Questions for Academics and Cryptographers

1. Does anyone in academia use any Usenet hierarchies nowadays? Which ones?

2. Aside from cryptography@metzdowd are there any good email discussion
lists?

3. Where else do cryptographers (academic and amateur) congregate online?

4. For preprints I know of IACR and ArXiv. Are there any other preprint
servers with interesting papers worth spending time to read?

5. Besides membership in IACR are there any other journals or groups
worth paying a membership for? I would like to find print (dead tree)
journals worth adding to my library. Some of the ones I have checked out
are full of fluff that I don't want to spend money on sifting.

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#50119

I can give pointers to some of these.

> 2. Aside from cryptography@metzdowd are there any good email discussion
> lists?

There is the Cypherpunks mailing list [1], but the quality of
discussion and the signal-to-noise ratio is horrible. Hardly anything
interesting these days. There is also no moderation, so most mails are
off-topic.

> 3. Where else do cryptographers (academic and amateur) congregate
> online?

Cryptography Stack Exchange [2] has some interesting discussions. It
does not have a lot of activity, but in general people seem to know
what they are talking about.

[1]: https://lists.cpunks.org/mailman/listinfo/cypherpunks
[2]: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/

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Leo

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#50147

On 9/25/21 7:39 AM, Leo wrote:
> I can give pointers to some of these.
> 
>> 2. Aside from cryptography@metzdowd are there any good email discussion
>> lists?
> 
> There is the Cypherpunks mailing list [1], but the quality of
> discussion and the signal-to-noise ratio is horrible. Hardly anything
> interesting these days. There is also no moderation, so most mails are
> off-topic.
> 
>> 3. Where else do cryptographers (academic and amateur) congregate
>> online?
> 
> Cryptography Stack Exchange [2] has some interesting discussions. It
> does not have a lot of activity, but in general people seem to know
> what they are talking about.
> 
> [1]: https://lists.cpunks.org/mailman/listinfo/cypherpunks
> [2]: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/
> 

So as I suspected it really is slim pickin's. I remember 30 years ago
when interest in codes and cryptography was more ubiquitous. It seems
most mental energy goes to social media and video sites these days.

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