Crypto Literature: Books

• Handbooks
  • Handbook of Applied Cryptography (Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot, Scott A. Vanstone, 1996 (full book online))
    • Amazon.com page (Buy it!)
• Textbooks
  • Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice, William Stallings
    • Second edition
      • Page by Stallings
        (Incl. instructor and student resources)
      • Prentice Hall page
      • Amazon.com page
        (Buy it!)
    • Third edition
      • Page by Stallings
        (Incl. instructor and student resources)
      • Amazon.com page
        (Buy it!)
  • Cryptography Theory and Practice (Douglas R. Stinson, 1995)
  • Cryptography Theory and Practice: The Second Edition (Douglas R. Stinson, 2002)
  • Public-Key Cryptography (Arto Salomaa, 1997)
  • Making, Breaking Codes: An Introduction to Cryptology (Paul Garrett)
    • Amazon.com page (Buy it!)
  • A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography (Neal I. Koblitz)
  • Security Information Economy with Cryptography (Amir Herzberg)
  • Introduction to Cryptography with Coding Theory (Wade Trappe, Lawrence C. Washington)
  • Introduction to Cryptography: Principles and Applications (Hans Delfs, Helmut Knebl)
• Monographies/Other Books for Specialists/Books about concrete fields
  • The Design of Rijndael: AES - The Advanced Encryption Standard (Joan Daemen, Vincent Rijmen)
  • The Foundations of Cryptography (Oded Goldreich)
    • Main website
    • Amazon page
      • Foundations of Cryptography: Basic Tools
        (Oded Goldreich)
      • Foundations of Cryptography, Volume II: Basic Applications
        (31.05.04)
    • Foundations of Cryptography (fragments of a unfinished book, ~1988)
  • Modern Cryptography, Probabilistic Proofs and Pseudorandomness (Oded Goldreich)
  • Claude Shannon: Collected Papers (Edited by Sloane, Wyner)
  • Pseudorandomness and Cryptographic Applications (Michael Luby)
  • Number Theory
    • Prolegomena to a Middlebrow Arithmetic of Curves of Genus 2 (Cassels, J.W.S. and Flynn, V.)
    • The Algorithmic Resolution of Diophantine Equations (Nigel P. Smart)
    • Number Theoretic Methods in Cryptography (Shparlinski)
  • Elliptic Curves
    • Elliptic Curves in Cryptography (Blake Seroussi Smart)
      • Amazon.com page
        (Buy it!)
    • Elliptic Curves and Their Applications to Cryptography (Andres Enge)
    • Implementing Elliptic Curve Cryptography (Michael Rosing)
  • Secure Electronic Voting (Dimitris Gritzalis)
  • PKI
    • Understanding the Public-Key Infrastructure: Concepts, Standards, and Deployment Considerations (Carlisle Adams, Steve Lloyd, Stephen Kent)
  • Quantum cryptography
    • he Physics of Quantum Information: Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Teleportation, Quantum Computation (Dirk Bouwmeester (Editor), Artur Ekert (Editor), Anton Zeilinger (Editor))
  • Complexity of Lattice Problems: A Cryptographic Perspective (Daniele Micciancio, Shafi Goldwasser, 2002)
• Books for novices
  • "Applied Cryptography" by Bruce Schneier
    • Official homepage
    • Amazon.com page (Buy it!)
    • Internet Locations for Materials on the Disks for Applied Cryptography
    • Errata by Bennet Yee
  • Cryptography Decrypted (H.X.Mel, Doris M. Baker)
  • Cryptography in C and C++ (Michael Welschenbach)
  • Firewalls 24seven (Matthew Strebe, Charles Perkins)
• Secret Code Breaker
• General computer/network security
  • Internet Cryptography (Richard E. Smith)
  • Security Engineering (Ross Anderson)
  • Writing Secure Code (2nd ed.) (Michael Howard, David C. LeBlanc)
  • Web Security, Privacy and Commerce (Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford (Contributor), Debby Russell)
  • Active Defense: A Comprehensive Guide to Network Security (Chris Brenton, Cameron Hunt)
  • Firewalls: The Complete Reference (Keith Strassberg, Gary Rollie, Richard Gondek)
• Privacy on the Line (Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau)
• Contributions to Contemporary Cryptography (Iris Anshel, Michael Anshel, Dorian Goldfeld)
• Security for Ubiquitous Computing (Frank Stajano)
• Artech House Computer Security Series
  • Non-repudiation in Electronic Commerce (Jianying Zhou)
• Information Hiding
  • Information Hiding Techniques for Steganography and Digital Watermarking (Stefan Katzenbeisser, Fabien A. P. Petitcolas, eds, 2000)
  • Information Hiding: Steganography and Watermarking - Attacks and Countermeasures (Neil F. Johnson, Zoran Duric, Sushil Jajodia, 2000)
  • Disappearing Cryptography, Second Edition - Information Hiding: Steganography and Watermarking (Peter Wayner)
• The Enigma Cipher: Methods of Breaking (Kris Gaj, 1989, in Polish)
• Book lists
  • The List of Books at International Cryptography Pages
  • Cryptography and Security List (Springer Verlag)
  • Amazon.com crypto books
• Popular science (history, personalities, ...)
  • The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Simon Singh)
  • The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing (David Kahn)
  • Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency from the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century (James Bamford)
  • Secret Messages: Codebreaking and American Diplomacy, 1930-1945 (David J. Alvarez)
• Fiction
  • Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson)
• Mathematics books
  • The Historical Math Book Collection (Scanned books)

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