CM30173 Reading

Recommended:

• Douglas Stinson. Cryptography theory and practice (Discrete mathematics and its applications), Chapman & Hall/CRC, 3rd edition, 2005

Further Reading (available online or in library):

• Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot, and Scott A. Vanstone. Handbook of applied cryptography, CRC Press. Available online at Handbook of applied cryptography
• H. Davenport. The higher arithmetic, Cambridge University Press, 7th edition, 1999
• Nigel Smart. Cryptography: an introduction, 2nd edition. Available online from Cryptography: an introduction
• Joan Daemen. The design of Rijndael: AES - the advanced encryption standard, Springer, 2002
• Neal Koblitz. Algebraic aspects of cryptography, Springer, 1998

This is not an exhaustive list; there are other books in the library that you might find useful.

Papers (available online or in library):

• E. Biham and A. Shamir. Differential cryptanalysis of DES-like cryptosystems (extended abstract) in Proc. CRYPTO '90 (ed. A. J. Menezes & S. A. Vanstone), volume 537 of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 2-21. Springer-Verlag, 1991.
• D. Boneh. Twenty years of attacks on the RSA cryptosystem, Notices of the AMS, 46:203-231, 1999. Available online: Twenty years of attacks...
• D. Coppersmith. The Data Encryption Standard (DES) and its strength against attacks, IBM J. R & D, 38:243-250, 1994. Available online: DES
• W. Diffie and M. E. Hellman. New directions in cryptography, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IT-22(6):644-654, 1976. Available online from: Diffie Hellman
• W. Diffie. The first ten years of public key cryptography, Proc. IEEE, 76:560-577. Available online: The first ten years...
• C. Pomerance. A tale of two sieves, Notices of the AMS, 43:1473-1485, 1996. Available online: A tale of two sieves
• R. L. Rivest, A. Shamir and L. M. Adleman. A method for obtaining signatures and public-key cryptosystems, Communications of the ACM, 21:120-126, 1978. Available online: RSA

Some of these may only be available to download on campus or through the library E-journals page. This is not an exhaustive list of papers.

Light reading (available in library):

• Simon Singh. The code book, Fourth Estate, 2000
• Fred Piper and Sean Murphy. Cryptography: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press, 2002. Available through the library: Cryptography: a short introduction.