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Intro to Cryptography [pdf] (2011)

by seamac3 on 7/2/23, 1:02 AM with 42 comments

• by mtreis86 on 7/2/23, 12:21 PM

  I learn best by breaking things. Here are a couple good books on cryptanalysis

  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56242724-codebreaking

  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17994.The_Code_Book

  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98610.Colossus

• by xavdid on 7/2/23, 6:53 AM

  Another good resource on intro crypto is @lvh's Crypto101 book: https://www.crypto101.io/

  There are also some basic practical exercises (I don't believe the projects are technically related, but are in similar veins): https://cryptopals.com/

• by vient on 7/2/23, 12:20 PM

  One more nice crypto book https://joyofcryptography.com

  It goes more in depth of understanding mathematics behind but less in scope — there are no elliptic curves, for example.

• by obnauticus on 7/2/23, 4:13 AM

  Tbh Cryptography Engineering by Niels Ferguson is a very good and practical intro to this topic.

• by ChrisArchitect on 7/2/23, 3:03 AM

  (2011)

• by IceHegel on 7/2/23, 1:51 AM

  Is the latex code on github? The margins are a bit off.

• by grog454 on 7/2/23, 2:39 AM

  > Part 1

  > Mathematical Background

  > Before we tackle cryptography we need to cover some basic facts from mathematics.

  Nit: we really don't. This reminds me of how dry and uninspired the cryptography and cryptology (less so) classes I took almost 20 years ago were.