Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Applications in cryptography

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The result was 'delete. El_C 17:40, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Applications in cryptography

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I have studied cryptography since 1987 and worked professionally with it since 1999. I say the article is really bad and redundant. That is, it tries to describe things that already are described better in other Wikipedia articles. And the article seems to be abandoned by its creator.

The article seems to have the following contents:

• The first section describes a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator (CSPRNG).

The second section is about stream ciphers:

• First it talks about the one-time pad encryption method.
• Then it says we can take a shortcut and use a stream cipher instead of the one-time pad.
• Then it says we can build a stream cipher by using a CSPRNG to produce the keystream for the stream cipher.
• Then it discusses security of CSPRNGs and if secure PRNGs really exist. That is, if one-way functions really exist or not.

So basically we can make the article a redirect to stream cipher or perhaps to CSPRNG. But since the article has such a bad name I would prefer that the article is deleted. David Göthberg 16:11, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

• Delete Poorly written, over technical, covers only a fraction of the subjct matter inmplied by the title, redundant with bettr existing artiles, and as per nom. After deletion, recreate as a redirect to Cryptography as this is a pluasible search target. DES ^(talk) 16:40, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

• Delete, as above. Oli Filth 17:12, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, this is already covered well enough at the other articles, and "Applications in cryptography" doesn't make sense as an article idea. Mangojuice^talk 17:13, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
  • I can imagine a useful survery/summery-style article at that title, but this isn't even a start on such a thing. DES ^(talk) 18:57, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
    • I can't. Cryptography is a field of applications, so a survey or summary style article really belongs at Cryptography, or a reasonable fork-out of tat article. Mangojuice^talk 21:00, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete I dabble in crypto myself, and the nom knows what he's talking about. This article is redundant, in addition to being poorly written. Spazure 04:26, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete The original author, "yaniv.pariente" is no longer in Wikipedia (created article 3 months ago). If a cryptographer who understands
• |Pr_s←U_n[A(s) = 1] − Pr_s←U_l(n) [A(Gen(s)) = 1]| <1/p(n).

feels the article should be deleted, that's good enough for me. Mandsford 00:20, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.