CS 4953, Spring 2002: Cryptography
Online Resources
Online Resources:
- On-line books (all hard and theoretical; that's why they're free):
- Handbook of Applied Cryptography:, by
Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot and Scott A. Vanstone,
CRC Press, ISBN: 0-8493-8523-7, October 1996, 816 pages, Fourth Printing
(July 1999).
Local copy
Remote copy.
- RSA's Frequently Asked Questions About Today's Cryptography.
Local copy [PDF, 1450KB]
(also referenced below under FAQs, but this is a book-sized document).
- Lecture Notes on Cryptography, by S. Goldwasser and M. Bellare,
summer course in cryptography, MIT, 1996-1999, 270 pages.
Local copy (PDF)
Remote copy.
- SSH: Cryptography A-Z.
Remote copy.
- Books and notes on cryptography by Oded Goldreich.
Local copy
Remote page.
- A Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude E. Shannon.
Local copy (PDF) [PDF, 366KB]
Remote copy [PDF].
- Frequently Asked Questions:
- Frequently Asked Questions from RSA:
FAQ
Local copy [PDF, 1450KB]
- Frequently Asked Questions from the sci.crypt
newsgroup:
FAQ,
Mirror site
- Frequently Asked Questions about Elliptic Curves:
FAQ
- Snake Oil Warning Signs: Encryption Software to Avoid:
FAQ
- Cryptography links:
- Reviews of books about cryptography:
- Online courses:
- Articles about cryptography:
- Standards and Cryptosystem Descriptions:
- Online code:
Lectures on
``The Laws of Cryptography'':
Revision date: 2001-08-03.
(Please use
ISO 8601, the International Standard.)