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Featured Categories : Study Books : Undergraduate & Postgraduate : Mathematics : Applied Mathematics : Cryptography

• Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

  Fred Piper, Sean Murphy

  
  
   

• Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms and Source Code in C

  Bruce Schneier

  
  
   

• Crypto: Secrecy and Privacy in the New Cold War (Penguin Press Science)

  Steven Levy

  
  Author Steven Levy, deservedly famous for his enlightening Hackers, tells the story of the cypherpunks, their foes, and their allies in Crypto; if the National Security Agency (NSA) had wanted to make sure that strong encryption would reach the masses, it couldn't have done much better than to tell the cranky geniuses of the world not to do it.

  From the determined research of Whitfield Diffie and Marty Hellman, in the face of the NSA's decades-old security lock, to the commercial world's turn-of-the-century embrace of encrypted e-commerce, Levy finds drama and intellectual challenge everywhere he looks. Although he writes, "Behind every great cryptographer, it seems, there is a driving pathology", his respect for the mathematicians and programmers who spearheaded public key encryption as the solution to Information Age privacy invasion shines throughout. Even the governmental bad guys are presented more as hapless control fetishists who lack the prescience to see the inevitability of strong encryption as more than a conspiracy of evil.

  Each cryptological advance that was made outside the confines of the NSA's Fort Meade complex was met with increasing legislative and judicial resistance. Levy's storytelling acumen tugs the reader along through mathematical and legal hassles that would stop most narratives in their tracks--his words make even the depressingly silly Clipper chip fiasco vibrant. Hardcore privacy nerds will value Crypto as a review of 30 years of wrangling; those readers with less familiarity with the subject will find it a terrific and well-documented launching pad for further research. From notables like Phil Zimmerman to obscure but important figures like James Ellis, Crypto dishes the dirt on folks who know how to keep a secret. --Rob Lightner

  
   

• Handbook of Applied Cryptography (Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications)

  Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot, Scott A. Vanstone

  
  
   

• Cryptography

  Laurence D. Smith

  
  
   

• Codes and Cryptography

  Dominic Welsh

  
  
   

• Cryptanalysis

  Helen Fouche Gaines

  
  
   

• Mathematical Recreations and Essays (Dover Books on Mathematical & Word Recreations)

  W.W.Rouse Ball

  
  
   

• Making, Breaking Codes: Introduction to Cryptology

  Paul Garrett

  
  
   

• The Code Book: Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

  Simon Singh

  
  With their inextricable links to history, mystery and war, codes and ciphers offer a rich seam of material for any author. The relative dearth of non-technical books on the subject may be a reflection of its technical foundations, which compel hard decisions about what to include and what to gloss over. Few are better qualified to take on the challenge than Simon Singh, the particle physicist turned science writer whose book Fermat's Last Theorem, recounting the dauntingly complex story behind the proof of this mathematical conjecture, deservedly became a No. 1 bestseller.

  The Code Book contains many fascinating accounts of code-breaking in action, from its use in unmasking the Man in the Iron Mask and the defeat of the Nazis to the breaking of a modern cipher system by a world-wide army of amateurs in 1994. It is especially good on the most recent developments, such as quantum cryptology and the thorny civil liberties issues raised by the advent of very secure cipher systems over the Internet. But Singh's mathematical prowess sometimes gets the better of his journalistic instincts, leading to technical descriptions that unnecessarily disrupt the narrative flow. So buy it--and have a shot at the 10,000 pound mystery cipher--but be prepared to skip. --Robert Matthews

  
   

• Mathematical Ciphers: From Caesar to RSA (Mathematical World): From Caesar to RSA (Mathematical World)

  Anne L. Young

  
  
   

• Handbook of Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography (Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications)

  Cohen Henri, Frey Gerhard, Avanzi Roberto, Doche Christophe, Lange Tanja, Nguyen Kim, Vercauteren Frederik

  
  
   

• Codes and Ciphers: An A to Z of Covert Communication, from the Clay Tablet to the Microdot

  Fred B. Wrixon

  
  
   

• Advances in Cryptology, 1981-1997: Electronic Proceedings and Index of the Crypto and Eurocrypt Conferences, 1981-1997 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

  
  
   

• Codes and Ciphers: Julius Caesar, the Enigma, and the Internet

  R. F. Churchhouse

  
  
   

• Number Story: From Counting to Cryptography

  Peter M. Higgins

  
  
   

• Formal Correctness of Security Protocols (Information Security and Cryptography) (Information Security and Cryptography)

  Giampaolo Bella

  
  
   

• Modern Cryptography: Theory and Practice (Hewlett-Packard Professional Books (Hardcover))

  Wenbo Mao

  
  
   

• Elliptic Curves: Number Theory and Cryptography (Discrete Mathematics & Its Application)

  Lawrence C. Washington

  
  
   

• Guide to Elliptic Curve Cryptography (Springer Professional Computing)

  Darrel Hankerson, Alfred J. Menezes, Scott Vanstone