Tagged Questions

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Suggested tag: rolling-your-own-crypto

How do you guys feel about introducing a rolling-your-own-crypto tag? We would then re-tag questions where the user is asking about homegrown crypto algorithms, homegrown crypto protocols, and/or ...
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A tag for “How can I become familiar with the logic syntax used in Cryptography papers” question

This question tagged as encryption. encryption tag is not suitable tag for the question. Which tag is suitable for such questions? It seems we need a new tag for such questions.
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Tagging of questions about IND-CPA and IND-CCA security

In the past, I (and presumably others) used to tag questions about ciphertext indistinguishability under various attack scenarios with the tags for the relevant attacks (e.g. chosen-plaintext-attack ...
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What is the proper use of the tag military-cryptography?

There is no tag summary for military-cryptography. There are only three questions with that tag. Only one of those do I feel has a remotely "military" feel to it. What should this tag be used for or ...
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How do we handle the recent announcement of the SHA-3 winner?

The winner of the SHA-3 competition was announced today. We already have a tag edit for sha-3, but some of the questions with sha-3 will undoubtedly reference the contest instead of the new family of ...
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Timestamping tag

Could be created special tag for timestamping ? Cryptography Timestamping (a.k.a Trusted Timestamping), I think should deserve it's own tag. (IMHO "Cryptographic timestamping" is better name, because ...
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Elliptic-Curves and ECC tags

We currently have the tags ecc (28 questions) for elliptic-curve-crypto, and elliptic-curves (11 questions) - 5 questions have both tags. Should we rename ecc to elliptic-curve-crypto? Should we ...
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The security tag

The security seems rather redundant - isn't almost all cryptography related to security?
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Suggested tag synonyms

aes <-- rijndael (rijndael was the original name of aes) withdrawn because only one variant of rijndael became AES random-number-generator <-- prng (rng is a synonym already) ssl <-- https ...
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Should tags be based the answer?

Should good answers to a question influence which tags are appropriate for that question thread? In other words, are the tags dictated only by the content of the question, or by the content of the ...
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Do we need the [algorithm] tag?

I just found the algorithm tag, our most-used tag without a tag wiki (excerpt). It has 16 questions (7 asked in the last 30 days), and I can't seem to find what this tag indicates (for writing it ...
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Tag cleanup and tag wikis before public beta?

I think it would useful to have some cleanup in the existing tags, as well as descriptions (e.g. tag wiki excerpts) for those we want to retain here. (For duplicate or ill-named tags, see The big tag ...
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The big tag naming discussion

We need to make these tag naming decisions (mostly together with synonyms). Do we want gpg or gnupg? (The other one would be made a synonym). ✔ It looks like gnupg is better. (Done.) Should we use ...
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Tags: singular or plural?

I just had a look at the Tag list, and found both password and passwords. Obviously we don't need both. A similar point would be hash and hash-functions. There also are modes, s-boxes, resources, ...