Introductory Cryptography and Computer Security References

• Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot, Scott A. Vanstone: Handbook of Applied Cryptography, CRC Press, October 1996, 816 pages, ISBN 0-8493-8523-7. (authors' web page)
• Bruce Schneier: Applied Cryptography - Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C. Second edition, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1996.
• Douglas R. Stinson: Cryptography - Theory and Practice, CRC Press, 1995, 448 pages, ISBN 0-8493-8521-0. (authors' web page)
• Neal Koblitz: A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography, 2nd edition, Springer Verlag, 1994, ISBN 0387942939.
• Dieter Gollmann: Computer Security, John Wiley & Son, 1999, ISBN 0471978442.
• Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford: Practical Unix and Internet Security, O'Reilly, 1996, ISBN 1-56592-148-8.
• Ross Anderson: Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2001, ISBN 0471389226.
• Peter Gutmann's Encryption and Security Tutorial.

Further material

• Hash algorithms:MD5, SHA-1, RIPEMD-160.
• Symmetric ciphers: AES, IDEA, CAST, TEA, Travois, Blowfish.
• Public Key Ciphers: IEEE 1363.
• Application Standards: PGP, S/MIME, SSL, SET.
• Cryptanalysis Tools: Griffon

Other (better!) Crypto and Security Hotlists by

• Ron Rivest
• COAST Lab
• Bruce Schneier
• Peter Gutmann
• SIRENE

UK Computer Security Legislation

• Computer Misuse Act 1990
• Data Protection Act 1998 (Information Commissioner)

Mailing Lists

• ukcrypto

Markus Kuhn
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