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Cryptography Decrypted
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Mel and Baker, has sample chapters.
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An Introduction to Cryptography
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Richard A. Mollin. Intended for a one-semester introductory undergraduate course in cryptography. Covers symmetric and public key systems with chapters on advanced topics.
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Applied Cryptography
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Bruce Schneier. A comprehensive tutorial and reference but a little light on mathematical theory.
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Contemporary Cryptology
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Gustavus J. Simmons. Subtitled "The Science of Information Integrity". Has emphasis on the cryptographic elements of the subject.
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Cryptography book recommendations
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Cryptography book reviews, links to online erratas, and free book downloads. Most books have charts that recommend prerequisite books, mathematics and programming language experience.
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Cryptography for Visual Basic
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Richard Bondi. Subtitled "A Programmer's Guide to the Microsoft CryptoAPI" which describes what the book is about.
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Cryptography Theory and Practice
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Douglas Stinson. Subtitled "Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications". Written with more emphasis on theory than practice, as acknowledged in the preface.
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Handbook of Applied Cryptography
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The online version of the 1996 CRC book by Menezes, van Oorschot and Vanstone (5th edition) in PostScript and PDF formats.
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In Code
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Sarah Flannery's supplement to her book "In Code", describing her Cayley-Purser algorithm.
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Primality and Cryptography
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Evangelos Kranakis. A comprehensive account of recent algorithms developed in computational number theory and primality testing.
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RSA Security's Official Guide to Cryptography
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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.
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Security Engineering
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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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The Code Book
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Simon Singh. Traces the development of codes and code-breaking from military espionage in ancient Greece to modern computer ciphers.
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The Interactive Cryptography Tutorial
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Online tutorial with useful info and links.
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The Mathematics of Ciphers
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S.C. Coutinho. An introduction to number theory and its applications to cryptography. A revised and updated translation from original in Portuguese.
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