Cryptography: An Introduction (2011) [pdf](cs.umd.edu)

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Cryptography: An Introduction (2011) [pdf]

http://www.cs.umd.edu/~waa/414-F11/IntroToCrypto.pdf

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If you just want to get somebody interested in cyptography, I HIGHLY recommend: The Code Book (http://amzn.com/0385495323). It's a great read for anybody who's done a little bit of history by walking you through the role of cryptography and hiding messages throughout history.

Covers most everything in the context of war history as far back and shaving a person's head, writing a message on it and then letting the hair grow back to hide it. Great read that will lay the groundwork of interest for a lot of people.

[deleted]vor 10 Jahren

jgrahamcvor 10 Jahren

This has a really nice section on work done by Jerzy Różycki, Henryk Zygalski and Marian Rejewski on the cryptanalysis of Enigma.

davidwvor 10 Jahren

This is a great book, I based our company's own proprietary crypto code on what I picked up while skimming through it. Kidding...kidding!

tptacekvor 10 Jahren

You are the worst.

springogeekvor 10 Jahren

We used this book as the source material for the cryptography course I took in the final year of my degree.

I can confirm that the content is very approachable. It even provides a great section introducing some of the core mathematics required.

mrcactu5vor 10 Jahren

here is a very theoretical account by Luca Trevisan of Stanford

http://theory.stanford.edu/~trevisan/books/crypto.pdf

cjlmvor 10 Jahren

Excellent introduction from an excellent academic.

heliconvor 10 Jahren

I'm currently working through Cryptography 1 on Coursera and struggling with some of the maths involved, so hopefully this will help.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto

nanocybervor 10 Jahren

I don't see a finalization/publication date in the text... can anyone provide and source?

bedrosvor 10 Jahren

this is a gem. it's hard to find all that info in one place.