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An Introduction to Cryptography - http://math.ucalgary.ca/~ramollin/cryptopref.html
Richard A. Mollin. Intended for a one-semester introductory undergraduate course in cryptography. Covers symmetric and public key systems with chapters on advanced topics.

Applied Cryptography - http://www.schneier.com/book-applied.html
Bruce Schneier. A comprehensive tutorial and reference but a little light on mathematical theory.

Codes and Ciphers - http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521810548.htm
Robert Churchhouse. Describes and analyses systems from the earliest to the most recent.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Quantum Cryptography and Secret-Key Distillation - http://gva.noekeon.org/QCandSKD/
Site accompanying the book by Gilles Van Assche. Includes table of contents, text of the introduction, an errata and a hyperlinked bibliography.

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.

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.

The Mathematics of Ciphers - http://www.dcc.ufrj.br/~collier/livros/criptoE.html
S.C. Coutinho. An introduction to number theory and its applications to cryptography. A revised and updated translation from original in Portuguese.

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