While there are several good books on cryptography by now (see below),
none of them covers the material precisely in the manner/order that I
will present it. When possible, though, I will try to be consistent
with the following textbook:
Here are some other resources you might find useful.
- Wenbo Mao,
Modern
Cryptography: Theory and Practice. More geared towards public-key
cryptography, very little symmetric-key cryptography. Relatively
modern treatment.
- H. Delfs and H. Knebl,
Introduction
to Cryptography. Not bad, but you might find it too difficult , and
the order of topics is not ideal.
- Lecture Notes on
Cryptography
by
Shafi Golwasser and Mihir Bellare. Pretty good set of notes. The
quality is not uniform, though. Some important topics are covered in
too much detail, the others are almost ignored.
- A. Menezes, P. Van Oorschot and S. Vanstone,
Handbook of applied
Cryptography (Free Electronically!). This book is quite
complete, and focuses more on applications. Again, very useful if you
are seriously into cryptography, but might overwhelm you.
- B. Schneier,
Applied Cryptography
(second edition). Very useful referece for practical
cryptography. Great summary of (by then) current algorithms and
standards. Not a good first textbook though.
- W. Stallings,
Cryptography
and Network Security
(third edition). Good mix of theory and
practice, not ideal for this course though.
- Notes
from my graduate cryptography class. Way too advanced for this class,
but you might find some lectures useful.
Sometimes I might point you to various on-line lecture notes, or
possibly hand out alternative lecture notes in class (e.g., when we
study Number Theory). These will be listed in the
Handouts
section on the class web site.
Last modified: January 13, 2006