Cryptology
CS440

Technical Books

• Handbook of Applied Cryptography, Menezes, van Oorschot, Vanstone, CRC 1997. (Comprehensive treatment of modern cryptography).
• Applied Cryptography, Schneier, Wiley, 1996. (Very applied, includes code.)
• Decrypted Secrets, Bauer, Springer, 2002 (3rd edition). (Extremely comprehensive treatment of classical cryptology up to the end of WWII)
• Modern Cryptography. Theory & Practice, Wenbo Mao, Prentice-Hall, 2004. (Excellent text on cryptography, solid mathematical foundations, and practical discussions.)
• Basic cryptanalysis (field manual, released by the army; many similar books are available at Aegan Park Press).
• Security Engineering, Ross Anderson, Wiley, 2001. (Still the standard text on the subject. Available online.)

Historical and Popular Books

• The Codebreakers, David Kahn, Sribner, 1996. (Comprehensive history of cryptology.)
• Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945, Leo Marks, Free Press, 2000. (Cliffhanger account of Marks code-making work for British spies in Europe; compelling reading. Check out interview with Marks)
• Cryptanalysis, Helen Fouche Gaines, Dover, New York. (Excellent book on cryptanalysis of classical ciphers.)
• The American Black Chamber, Yardley, Aegean Park Press. (Yardley was in charge of the American Black chamber which existed from 1917 to 1929).
• The Code Book, Simon Singh, Anchor, 2000. (Popular historical account of cryptology, with a fair amount of technical detail.)
• The Cuckoo's Egg, Cliff Stoll, Pocket Books, 1990. (Real life account of Stoll tracking down a hacker. Better than James Bond.)
• Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson, Harper, 2000. (Occasionally long-winded novel, containing accurate technical details.)

Articles

• NSA declassified documents on public-key cryptography
• Attacks on RSA (survey paper by Dan Boneh)
• Polynomials in the Nation's Service, Susan Landau, 2004.
• Matt Blaze's papers on weaknesses in master key systems, lock-picking, and safecracking
• Maurer. Conditionally-Perfect Secrecy and a Provably-Secure Randomized Cipher
• Rabin, Ding. Provable Everlasting Security in the Bounded Storage Model
• Kish. Secure classical communications (as written up by Schneier)
• Unbroken ciphers
• Watch Whitfield Diffie on information security
• Long-term perspectives in Cryptography
• graphical representations of hash functions

Security

• Crypto-Gram newsletter (by Bruce Schneier)
• CTR mode of operation
• Wikipedia entry on block ciphers

• Wheel cipher simulator
• Enigma simulator
• Another Enigma simulator
• Frequency table for English
• Shift Cipher
• Shift Cipher Analysis
• Shift Cipher Analysis (Excel)
• Vigenere Cipher (with analysis)
• Affine Cipher
• Modular inverses
• RSA (for small integers)
• A simulator for many classical ciphers