Cryptography: An Introduction (2011) [pdf]

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

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jgrahamc• 10 years ago

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

cjlm• 10 years ago

Excellent introduction from an excellent academic.

springogeek• 10 years ago

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.

bedros• 10 years ago

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

brightball• 10 years ago

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.

davidw• 10 years ago

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!

tptacek• 10 years ago

You are the worst.

mrcactu5• 10 years ago

here is a very theoretical account by Luca Trevisan of Stanford

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

nanocyber• 10 years ago

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

helicon• 10 years ago

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

Cryptography: An Introduction (2011) [pdf]

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