CryptoDox: Encyclopedia on Cryptography & Info

xorgb writes "CryptoDox is an online encyclopedia on Cryptography and Information Security. The data is being made available under the GNU Free Documentation License. The site is powered by MediaWiki and in the few months that it has been online it has got some good articles on the basics of cryptography. It is currently looking out for contributors to enhance its database of articles. Check it out!"

Planning to submit?

[GC]

If you're planning to submit to crytpography documentation I would recommend you contribute to the already extensive Crytpography Project on Wikipedia: Cryptography WikiProject [wikipedia.org]

The project in the article is rather limited, conflicts with other worthy projects, and made me feel that I was browsing the amazon cryptography book section, what with all the amazon adverts on it.

Re:Compatible licensing means room for both

[Anonymous Coward]

The Citizendium, which was recently announced in the slashdot article "Co-founder forks Wikipedia" may stand some change to be an alternative to Wikipedia. There no anonymous editing will be allowed, thus potentially avoiding some problems. It remains to be seen whether stronger controls will lead to better content.
Cryptodox, however, is not a viable alternative to Wikipedia.

Re:Did anybody bother to check that link?

[Dh2000]

It was pulled (not defaced, sadly). I loaded a few pages right after it was posted, and it worked. But all links give that message now.

Why Is This Article On Slashdot?

[tqbf]

Last week we had advisories from the OpenSSL project and the Mozilla team that the two most popular open-source implementations of RSA, probably accounting for the majority of all deployed RSA code, were so badly broken that an arbitrary attacker could generate a valid SSL certificate for Wells Fargo offline and sell it.

This got no coverage on Slashdot. Ok, fine. Maybe it's a bit esoteric.

Today, an amateur wiki site on cryptography, with (apparently) fewer articles than even the Wikipedia crypto collection, does get coverage.

What am I missing here?

WikiProject Cryptography

[clap_hands]

Disclaimer: I started the English Wikipedia's Cryptography Project page:

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject _Cryptography [wikipedia.org]

CryptoDox seems to be doing the same thing: creating an encyclopedia about cryptography using MediaWiki. To be honest, I don't really understand why this guy wants to do it outside of Wikipedia -- I've asked him, but he's never given any reason for it . Still, he's quite welcome to do what he likes, of course, and since he's now using the GFDL (he was using Creative Commons Non-Commercial last week), we can copy material back and forth between Wikipedia and CryptoDox. So, if you're into crypto and fancy helping out, feel free get involved with either project -- it's a win for both.