awesome-crypto-papers/CONTRIBUTING.md

# Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome! Keep it sane and in line with the general direction of the list, which is helping security engineers and normal developers to use crypto properly, get broad context of how practical crypto works, is attacked, and should be implemented/used.

## Guidelines

- Add one link per commit.

- No links to paid resources - only reference materials available for free (or at cost of an e-mail).

- Add one commit per Pull Request.

- Add the link: `- [paper-name](http://example.com/) - A short description ends with a period.` Mentioning authors in description is recommended, if there are too many - mention first 2 and "et al.".

  - Keep descriptions concise, maximum number of characters is 350.

- Add a section if needed.

  - Add the section description.
  - Add the section title to Table of Contents.

- Search previous suggestions before making a new one, as yours may be a duplicate.

- Check your spelling and grammar.

- Remove any trailing whitespace.

- Send a Pull Request with the reason why the paper/article is awesome.

- Make sure the tests are passing.