Recommended Reading from the Gopher's Slack #crypto Channel for Cryptography Newcomers

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Recommended Resources from the Gopher's Slack #crypto Channel for Cryptography Newcomers

TL;DR

"start with Serious Cryptography and none of the others. Then if you want more I recommend Dan Boneh's Cryptography I on Coursera and Boneh's free textbook..." -Filippo Valsorda

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Books

• Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption
• Introduction to Modern Cryptography 2ed
  • Book website.
• Handbook of Applied Cryptography (Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications)

  • "...mostly out-of-date but good coverage of the basic math and definitions." -Damian Gryski

  • Book website. With FREE sample chapters

Avoid

Note: Please include reason for recommending to avoid

• Cryptography Engineering: Principles and Practical Applications

  • "Cryptography Engineering was good at the time, but is out of date both in details and in spirit (specifically lacking in "opinionatedness") these days, dangerously so." -Filippo Valsorda

Posts/Papers/Articles

• A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography -Dan Boneh and Victor Shoup
• Mathematics of Public Key Cryptography. Version 2.0 -Steven D. Galbraith
  • A more math-focused reading

Videos

• MIT 6.875 (Cryptography), Spring 2018
• A YouTube playlist that I created of Computerphile videos related to cryptography

Online Courses

1. Cryptography I -Instructor: Professor Dan Boneh