1. Chapters 4 and 8 of
   William Stallings, Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice, 4th ed., Prentice Hall, 2005..
2. 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).

1. Song Y. Yan, Number Theory for Computing, 2nd ed., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2002.
2. David M. Burton, Elementary Number Theory, International Series in Pure and Applied Mathematics, 3rd. ed., The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1997.

1. David Kahn, The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet, 2nd ed., Scribner, New York, 1996.
2. Simon Singh, The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography, Anchor, 2000.
3. Friedrich L. Bauer, Decrypted Secrets: Methods and Maxims of Cryptology, 2nd ed. Springer, Berlin, 2000.
4. Steven Levy, Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age, Penguin Putnam, 2002.

1. Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman, and Mike Speciner, Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World, PTR Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 2002.
2. M. Welschenbach, Cryptography in C and C++, Apress, 2001.
3. Douglas R. Stinson, Cryptography - Theory and Practice, 3rd ed., CRC Press, Inc., 2005.
4. Bruce Schneier, Applied Cryptography - Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1995.

Electronic newsletters

Crypto-Gram

On-line collections of papers

	Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science
	Counterpane Labs Index of Cryptography Papers

Journals and periodicals

	Journal of Cryptology - since 1989
	CryptoBytes - since 1995
	Journal of Computer Security - since 1994

Proceedings of the following conferences
(selected articles will be used during the course)

	RSA Data Security Conf. - since 1992
	CHES - since 1999
	CRYPTO - since 1982
	EUROCRYPT - since 1984
	ASIACRYPT - since 1991