What is Cryptology City?

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Cryptology City is a passion project that I started just after I finished my PhD in Cryptography. I always liked the Complexity Zoo when I was a younger student and really interested in Theoretical Computer Science. I found it really fun to just read about random complexity classes, and interesting that people had even bothered to define and compare them to more standard classes.

In my (short) time as a cryptographer, I've realized that this type of systematization is really rare to come by, and that it would be really useful in subfields of Computer Science. My hope is that Cryptology City serves as a useful resource to new and old cryptographers as a place to centralize information about cryptographic assumptions and primitives. I think there is a lot more work to be done in cryptography, and that searching prior works on Google Scholar is often time insufficient to get a good grasp of what is out there.

If you're a cryptographer, you're more than welcome to help building the city out, correct mistakes, or provide your own suggestions for what would be helpful or an improvement! For newer cryptographers or those just curious to learn about the math and models behind security, have fun looking at what's out there, too! Hopefully you can find interesting problems to solve.