D.
Kahn, The Codebreakers; The Story of Secret Writing, Macmillan Publishing
CO., INC.
[The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient to
the Modern Times. A generation of cryptographers was raised by reading
this book. A great history book, modern advances are not covered.]
Handbook of Applied Cryptography
(On-line!)
[A very concise book. Both for newbies and professionals. Chapter 1
has some relevance to our first lecture. Chapter 2 provides very useful
"Mathematical Background". Chapter 7 a very fast run through "Block Ciphers".]
Applied Cryptography
(our
library has one copy of this book)
[A good reference book on all aspects of encryption primitives and
their applications. Many modern ciphers are described and references to
their analysis are given. It does not cover the simple classical ciphers
and their analysis.]
Helen Fouche Gaines, Cryptanalysis,
a study of ciphers and their solution,
Dover Publications, Inc. New York, 1956.
[A great book on cryptanalysis of classical ciphers.]
Eli Biham, Adi Shamir, Differential
Cryptanalysis of the Data Encryption Standard,
Springer-Verlag, 1993. Older
version online!
[A table book of cryptanalyst. Development of
the method of differential cryptanalysis and its application to DES and
other ciphers.]
MAIN REFERENCES
Advanced Reading
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Proceedings of Crypto conferences and workshops (On-line!) in Springer
LNCS
series.
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