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Handbook of Applied Cryptography - http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/
The online version of the 1996 CRC book by Menezes, van Oorschot and Vanstone (5th edition) in PostScript and PDF formats. |
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Security Engineering - http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html
Anderson, Ross. Author describes book in his own words. He explains how "pure" cryptography is not quite so pure when expressed in the context of real world applications. |
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Applied Cryptography - http://www.schneier.com/book-applied.html
Bruce Schneier. A comprehensive tutorial and reference but a little light on mathematical theory. |
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The Code Book - http://www.simonsingh.net/The_Code_Book.html
Simon Singh. Traces the development of codes and code-breaking from military espionage in ancient Greece to modern computer ciphers. |
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Cryptography Theory and Practice - http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/~dstinson/CTAP.html
Douglas Stinson. Subtitled "Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications". Written with more emphasis on theory than practice, as acknowledged in the preface. |
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Cryptography book recommendations - http://www.youdzone.com/cryptobooks.html
Cryptography book reviews, links to online erratas, and free book downloads. Most books have charts that recommend prerequisite books, mathematics and programming language experience. |
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Primality and Cryptography - http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471909343.html
Evangelos Kranakis. A comprehensive account of recent algorithms developed in computational number theory and primality testing. |
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Contemporary Cryptology - http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0780353528.html
Gustavus J. Simmons. Subtitled "The Science of Information Integrity". Has emphasis on the cryptographic elements of the subject. |
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Cryptography for Visual Basic - http://www.cryptovb.com/books/bondi/bondi.html
Richard Bondi. Subtitled "A Programmer's Guide to the Microsoft CryptoAPI" which describes what the book is about. |
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http://cryptome.org/flannery-cp.htm - http://cryptome.org/flannery-cp.htm
Sarah Flannery's supplement to her book "In Code", describing her Cayley-Purser algorithm. |