Reference Books on Cryptography

Question

I successfully ended the book Elementary Number Theory by David M. Burton. It is a great book on Number Theory and History of Number Theory. Specially, I loved the concise chapter on Cryptography. Now, I am pretty interested to continue my study in Cryptography. Which books or websites should I read to learn more on Cryptography, if there is more math of it?

Answer 1

Cryptography is a rapidly changing subject at its frontier. However, though it dates from 1997 the Handbook of Applied Cryptography by A. Menezes, P. van Oorschot, and S. Vanstone, has nice surveys of many topics related to cryptography.

Answer 2

This question was duplicated here: References for intermediate cryptography

So, I will give a more recent answer. I highly recommend the book Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption Kindle by Jean-Philippe Aumasson. This book is very beginner friendly.