Cryptography

Overview

Topics include Ancient ciphers, modern stream and block ciphers, DES, AES, Public Key Encryption & Key Management. The course also covers related mathematics in number theory and group theory.

Navigation

• Prerequisites

• Textbooks

• Code

• Videos

• Websites

• Apps

Prerequisites

• This course has no prerequisites.

• Courses that have similar/overlapping topics include Service Oriented Computing and Number Theory

Textbooks

Title	Author(s)	Edition
Cryptography & Network Security	Behrooz Forouzan	1st (2007)
Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms & Source Code in C	Bruce Schneier	2nd (1995)
Handbook of Applied Cryptography	Menezes, Oorschot & Vanstone	1st (1996)
Cryptography and Network Security: Principles & Practice	William Stallings	7th (2017)
Cryptography: Theory & Practice	Rosen & Stinson	3rd (2006)
IT Security: Computer Networks Top Down Approach	Kurose & Ross	6th (2012)
Network Security Overview	Kurose & Ross	-

Code

• Cryptography Programs
• Cryptography.io for Python
• VisualCrypto

Videos

• Cryptography I, Stanford University
• Cryptography Lecture Series, Christof Paar
• Journey Into Cryptography, Khan Academy

Websites

• Understanding Cryptography: Slides, Problems & Links
• Modular Arithmetic Calculator
• Ancient Ciphers
• Cryptool
• Github Repo on Cryptography, Sobolven

Apps

• Cryptography: Collections of Ciphers & Hashes