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; 7th edition, 2016, ISBN: 978-0134444284
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)

Understanding Cryptography by Christof Paar and Jan Pelzl, Springer-Verlag, 2009, ISBN: 978-3-642-04101-3. If you are a Mason student you can access this book on Springer Link.

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).

Side-Channel Analysis

Power Analysis Attacks Revealing the Secrets of Smart Cards by Stefan MangardElisabeth OswaldThomas Popp, Springer, 2007, ISBN: 978-0-387-30857-9.
Advanced DPA Theory and Practice Towards the Security Limits of Secure Embedded Circuits by Eric Peeters Springer 2013, ISBN: 978-1-4614-6782-3.
The Hardware Hacking Handbook Breaking Embedded Security with Hardware Attacks by Colin O'Flynn and Jasper van Woudenberg, No Starch Press, 2021, ISBN: 978-1-5932-7874-8.

Other Books about Cryptography

A comprehensive list of book on cryptography and the history of cryptography can be found on Wikipedia.

Proceedings of the Following Conferences

(selected articles will be used during the course)