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Science: Math: Applications: Communication_Theory: Cryptography: Books

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Applied Cryptography
Bruce Schneier. A comprehensive tutorial and reference but a little light on mathematical theory.

The Code Book
Simon Singh. Traces the development of codes and code-breaking from military espionage in ancient Greece to modern computer ciphers.

Contemporary Cryptology
Gustavus J. Simmons. Subtitled "The Science of Information Integrity". Has emphasis on the cryptographic elements of the subject.

Cryptography book recommendations
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 Decrypted
Mel and Baker, has sample chapters.

Cryptography for Visual Basic
Richard Bondi. Subtitled "A Programmer's Guide to the Microsoft CryptoAPI" which describes what the book is about.

Cryptography Theory and Practice
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
The online version of the 1996 CRC book by Menezes, van Oorschot and Vanstone (5th edition) in PostScript and PDF formats.

In Code
Sarah Flannery's supplement to her book "In Code", describing her Cayley-Purser algorithm.

The Interactive Cryptography Tutorial
Online tutorial with useful info and links.

An Introduction to Cryptography
Richard A. Mollin. Intended for a one-semester introductory undergraduate course in cryptography. Covers symmetric and public key systems with chapters on advanced topics.

The Mathematics of Ciphers
S.C. Coutinho. An introduction to number theory and its applications to cryptography. A revised and updated translation from original in Portuguese.

Primality and Cryptography
Evangelos Kranakis. A comprehensive account of recent algorithms developed in computational number theory and primality testing.

RSA Security's Official Guide to Cryptography
Burnett and Paine. Explains the differences between symmetric-key and public-key cryptography, how PKI and X.509 affect security and how the RSA algorithm works within protocols.

Security Engineering
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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