Wei Dai

Here you can find some software and articles that I've written.

• cryptography:
  • Crypto++, a free C++ library for cryptography
  • speed benchmarks for various ciphers and hash functions
  • Home Pages of Cryptography Related People
  • The VMAC Internet Draft
  • a note about applications of Lucas sequences in cryptography
  • the crypto-optimization mailing list
• anonymity:
  • PipeNet, a protocol for low-latency anonymous communication
  • two attacks against a PipeNet-like protocol once used by the Freedom service
  • b-money, a scheme for a group of untraceable digital pseudonyms to pay each other with money and to enforce contracts amongst themselves without outside help
• social costs of intelligence:
  • Why good memory could be bad for you: game theoretic analysis of a monopolist with memory.
  • Why cleverness could be bad for you: a game where the smarter players lose.
• miscellaneous ideas:
  • A really simple interpretation of quantum mechanics.
  • How to make more money with your employee stock options at no extra risk.
  • What should advanced civilizations do with waste heat? Use black holes as heat sinks.
  • An alternative to intellectual property rights: government funding of information goods based on measured value.
• decision theory and rationality:
  • My posts on Less Wrong, "a community blog devoted to refining the art of human rationality".

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