English only? No problemo!
Welcome to mi humble Crypto Workshop (Taller de Criptografía), a one-person web. I´m Arturo Quirantes, a physics teacher in Granada, somewhere in sunny Spain. Crypto is not my academic interest but, hey, I started reading about it and now I´m hooked. Beginners beware! Crypto is a contagious disease, and has no cure, so if you are not hooked to it already, run! You still have a chance to escape! But you probably came here because you are infected, anyway. So just enjoy it you know what I mean.
Unfortunately, this webpage is mostly in Spanish. As a matter of fact, I started it in order to fill up the Spanish websphere with come crypto content. Still, there are a couple places you would like to visit. First, you might like to walk around the CryptoZone, as I call the english translation of the Camazón Museum. I´m particularly proud of my page on Enigma rotors, which harbors the most complete list of Enigma rotor features (class, wiring, notches, etc) I know of.
Then there´s a vestige of past glories. One of them is the Enfopol Zone, from the good ol´ 1990s. That was the time governments around the world showed us just what kind of Internet they wanted built for us. Now that we live in the Age of Surveillance, it´s good to know where it all came from. Related to that, there is the Don´t fly my data page, with a story about how Uncle Sam wanted all our data whenever we wanted to fly to the USA. I tried to bring the subject to the Spanish Data Protection Authority, but to no avail (the date was 2003, and as of today I´m still waiting to hear from them). Bad times, yes, but since them we have stricter airport controls, body scanners, and the USA does not request for data anymore, they just demand it or else! Those were the days.
I´m fluent in English, so if you want to contact me, just drop me some bites at aquirantes at cripto dot es.
And now we´re done with the introduction. Welcome!