Updated statistics available as of 26 June 2008 and can be found under About US section here.

Only 6 months ago few of us got together and decided to have a web representation for our CRYPTOcrats group. Ever since that time in Dec’07 we have been growing up in numbers and I am happy to report some membership statistics now. Its quite interesting to see that such a specialized group got this great response and the credit goes to all of you members (CRYPTOcrats).

There are two distinct views* of the statistics. One is based on the profile of the members that shows the varied mix of people we have in the group. The other one is based on their geographical locations again quite varied and it is really nice to see that we are known in so many parts of the world now.

1. CRYPTOcrats and their job function

There is a strong representation of Architects, Developers and Researchers on the group. It is also nice to see that quite a few CEOs & CTOs bring business leader level perspective to the group.

2. CRYPTOcrats and their geographical locations

There is strong representation from India, however, this includes few members who are presently working in other parts of the word. Followed by India there is a strong representation from US and France. Quite interestingly lots of the senior CRYPTOcrats come from US & France and will soon be contributing to this website. We would look forward to having more representation from Israel, Switzerland and UK where lots of good work in Security and Cryptography is taking place.

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Greetings!

It gives me great pleasure to launch CRYPTOcrats.com today when some of us in India are celebrating the festival of Gudi Padwa. This first day of the New Year per the Maharashtrian Calendar is celebrated by hoisting a “Gudi” - a decorated wooden stick outside the house . And for the curious ones this is how the Gudi looks.

CRYPTOcrats started as a linkedin group and now we have reached a critical mass. The purpose of this group was to bring together the mix of Cryptography/Security enthusiasts, aficionados and experts. While I was sending out the invites to friends and like minded acquaintances we thought why not have our own website. So CRYPTOcrats.com is this initiative where we would like to create forum for the group to discuss and read about Security/Cryptography.
There was a lot of hard work and sincere effort put in to create this and I hope you will use the forum to the group’s benefit to the fullest. There are a lot of people I would like to thank for their continued support. Few names that must be mentioned here are Mr. Ravi Gogte, Mr. Aniruddha Shrotri, Dr. Shridhar Shukla. They all have been encouraging us in the CRYPTOcrats cause.

A lot of thanks to the CRYPTOcrats founding team Mayuresh Bakshi and Abhishek Anurag.

Besides being a good source of information, a blog site, I am sure there are many other roles CRYPTOcrats.com might play and We would like to hear your suggestions about that.

With this I would like to launch CRYPTOcrats.com. Lets all figure out how we want to use CRYPTOcrats more effectively in the time to come.

Thank you.

Amit Chitale