Cryptography Books

[guitchicken]

Hey,

I am making a program for my java class that deals with encryption and decryption. I was wondering what the best cryptology books are so I can use these to add more options to the program.

Thanks in advance

[Maestr0]

http://www.schneier.com/book-applied.html
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130118982/102-1962326-2232944

-Maestr0

[sec_ware]

Hi

Your question has been asked various time already, eg[1].

But in short - there are free books/lectures on the net, which
cover the topic nicely, e.g.
LANAKI's Crypto Course Lessons[2], a good collection[3] and,
my favorite, the Handbook of Applied Cryptography[4].

Cheers

[1] http://www.antionline.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=264224
[2] http://www.und.edu/org/crypto/crypto/lanaki.crypt.class/lessons/
[3] http://www.murky.org/cryptography/
[4] http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/

[Black Cluster]

Bunch of PDF files are waiting here....

http://www.comms.scitech.susx.ac.uk/fft/


Cheers

[tarpi]

For anyone serious about cryptography, Schneier's Applied Cryptography is a must.

tarpi

[guitchicken]

Thanks guys I'll look into these. I have been meaning to make a program for this for a while because I do some of it every now and then but I have not gotten around to it. I got the chance to use it as a term project so I figured I would start and use books to learn more than I know now. Thanks for the response.