ECE 746 Advanced Applied Cryptography

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering George Mason University Volgenau School of Engineering

Textbooks

Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice by William Stallings, Prentice Hall; 6th edition, 2013, ISBN: 978-0-13-335469-0

Handbook of Applied Cryptography by Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot, and Scott A. Vanstone, CRC Press, Inc.; 1996, ISBN: 0-84-938523-7. (all chapters of this book can be downloaded from the book web page)

Related Mathematical Resources

Basics

Chapters 4 and 8 of
William Stallings, Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice Prentice Hall; 6th edition, 2013, ISBN: 978-0-13-335469-0

Chapters 2 and 4 of
Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot, and Scott A. Vanstone, Handbook of Applied Cryptography, CRC Press, Inc., 1996 (can be downloaded from the book web page).

Intermediate

Song Y. Yan, Number Theory for Computing, 2nd ed., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2002.

David M. Burton, Elementary Number Theory, International Series in Pure and Applied Mathematics, 3rd. ed., The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1997.

Historical Books

David Kahn, The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet, 2nd ed., Scribner, New York, 1996.

Simon Singh, The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography, Anchor, 2000.

Friedrich L. Bauer, Decrypted Secrets: Methods and Maxims of Cryptology, 2nd ed. Springer, Berlin, 2000.

Steven Levy, Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age, Penguin Putnam, 2002.

Additional Reading

Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman, and Mike Speciner, Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World, PTR Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 2002.

M. Welschenbach, Cryptography in C and C++, Apress, 2001.

Douglas R. Stinson, Cryptography - Theory and Practice, 3rd ed., CRC Press, Inc., 2005.

Bruce Schneier, Applied Cryptography - Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1995.