Earlier this week I posted a note bemoaning the lack of a good searchable repository for cryptography related technical reports. In short, I volunteered to develop, host and maintain such a system as a service to the rest of the Internet. The system is ready, now the fun part begins... The Cryptographic Technical Report Service needs *YOU*. Specifically, it needs your technical reports (or other technical documentation). In order for CTRS to become popular, it needs to have a useful amount of data to search, so I'm currently soliciting submissions for the database. Contributing to CTRS is pretty simple. Detailed information can be found at <http://porthos.itribe.net/CTRS/FAQ.html#contribute>, but basically all that's required is to send <ctrs-submissions@itribe.net> a refer-format bibliographic entry which contains a URL pointing to the paper's real Net location. I'll index the entries (prettyprinting them, of course), and CTRS users will follow that URL if they want to retrieve the paper. If you don't have a URL, I'm willing to host as many papers as I have resources for. Full details can be found at the URL above, but please note that I'm only able to accept papers submitted by the authors (or copyright holder). If you'd like to know more about CTRS, you can check out it's beta version at <http://www.itribe.net/CTRS/> (<https://www.itribe.net/CTRS/> for the SSL version). The database doesn't have much (anything) in it right now, so I'm relying totally on submissions in order to build the collection. I firmly believe that CTRS can provide a useful service to the cryptographic community, so I hope you will all consider contributing your reports to CTRS. If you have questions, please check out the CTRS FAQ <http://www.itribe.net/CTRS/FAQ.html>. If you still have questions, feel free to contact me at the email address below. ========================================================================== David J. Bianco | Web Wonders, Online Oddities, Cool Stuff iTribe, Inc. | Suite 1700, World Trade Center | email: <bianco@itribe.net> Norfolk, VA 23510 | URL : http://www.itribe.net/~bianco/