The reference book for the stanford coursera course is- i presume almost searching the original stanford course- http://www.cs.umd.edu/~jkatz/imc.html
It is a good text, introductory, but clear. Best On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 6:03 PM, fred concklin <fredconck...@gmail.com> wrote: > Cryptography Engineering is a good, up to date resource: > https://www.schneier.com/book-ce.html > > > > > On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Jeffrey Goldberg <jeff...@goldmark.org> > wrote: >> >> On Dec 29, 2013, at 3:56 PM, yersinia <yersinia.spi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 7:28 PM, code elusive <code.elus...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> >>> On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 11:35:28PM +0000, RossMcFarlane wrote: >> >> >>>> I'd love to learn some more about cryptography >> >> >> [1] https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto >> >> [2] https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto2 >> >> > Very nice as a crypto courses. >> >> I can also vouch for this. >> >> The first one (in addition to stuff I’d sort of picked up on my own) a few >> years back put me in a position where I can now read a lot of the primary >> literature in cryptology. >> >> The math for cryptography isn’t hard, but it is abstract and does require >> being able to think mathematically. I found “Understanding Cryptography” >> >> http://wiki.crypto.rub.de/Buch/ >> >> excellent for understanding the math. But note that it takes a different >> approach than the crypto course, and you should not rely on that book alone. >> >> >> If anyone points you (Ross) to Applied Cryptography, I’d recommend that >> you stay away. It was valuable at its time, but it is of historical >> significance only at this point. >> >> Cheers, >> >> -j >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> cryptography mailing list >> cryptography@randombit.net >> http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography >> > > > _______________________________________________ > cryptography mailing list > cryptography@randombit.net > http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography > _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
