I successfully ended the book Elementary Number Theory by David M. Burton. It is a great book on Number Theory and History of Number Theory. Specially, I loved the concise chapter on Cryptography. Now, I am pretty interested to continue my study in Cryptography. Which books or websites should I read to learn more on Cryptography, if there is more math of it?
Reference Books on Cryptography
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4Just in case: you're already aware that we have a [crypto.SE](http://crypto.stackexchange.com)? – 2011-10-10
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1In any event, you will want to see [Schneier's stuff](http://www.schneier.com/books.html)... – 2011-10-10
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0I didn't know it. Thanks, that [crypto.SE] is first reference for me. – 2011-10-10
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1@J.M. Some of those book titles are hilarious. – 2011-10-10
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1Just a note, [we don't want "book list" questions](http://meta.crypto.stackexchange.com/q/1) on crypto.SE, they will get closed. (We might do a [chat session](http://meta.crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/97/crypto-chatcasts) about this topic, though.) – 2011-10-10
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0@Paŭlo: thanks for the info; I was tempted to flag this for migration, but held back. Apparently it was a good call. :) – 2011-10-10
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0@Paŭlo: My main aim of asking this question is not to get a list of some books, but actually some references that I could proceed my learnings. Prof. Burton had already given a list of some good reference texts in book's appendices. – 2011-10-11
3 Answers
Cryptography is a rapidly changing subject at its frontier. However, though it dates from 1997 the Handbook of Applied Cryptography by A. Menezes, P. van Oorschot, and S. Vanstone, has nice surveys of many topics related to cryptography.
Introduction to Modern Cryptography by J.Katz and Y.Lindell (CRC Press) is a nice book to start formal cryptography. For a more advanced reader, Foundations of Cryptography by Oded Goldreich can be handy.
I am reading Hoffstein, Pipher, Silverman-An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography 2nd and also like from what I've read of Trappe, Washington-introduction to cryptography with coding theory 2nd. I have 85 books that I looked through briefly and these were the two best. The authors actually explain the theory intelligently because they actually understand the topics. The other books I looked at would explain things that were obvious (Paar, Pelzl) or hid the fact that they didn't understand everything by putting undefined meaningless symbols in a function.