awesome-crypto-papers

A curated list of cryptography papers, articles, tutorials and howtos.

Notes

The goal of this list is to provide reading material for different levels of cryptographic knowledge. I started it because my day job onboarding engineers includes educating them in cryptographic matters, and that involves finding the same materials repeatedly. Hopefully, it will be useful for someone else, too.

Contributing

Contents

• Introducing people to data security and cryptography

  • Cryptography

• Books

The list

Introducing people to data security and cryptography

Simple: cryptography for non-engineers

• Nuts and Bolts of Encryption: A Primer for Policymakers

Introduction to specific topics

Elliptic-curve crypto

• Elliptic Curve cryptography: A gentle introduction
• Elliptic Curve Cryptography: finite fields and discrete logarithms
• Elliptic Curve Cryptography: ECDH and ECDSA
• Elliptic Curve Cryptography: breaking security and a comparison with RSA
• Let's construct an elliptic curve: Introducing Crackpot2065

Books

That seems somewhat out of scope, isn't it? But these are books only fully available online for free. Read them as a sequence of papers if you will.

• A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography by Dan Boneh and Victor Shoup. A well-balanced introductory course into cryptography, a bit of cryptoanalysis and cryptography-related security.
• CrypTool book, predominantly mathematically oriented information on learning, using and experimenting cryptographic procedures.
• Handbook of Applied Cryptography by Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot and Scott A. Vanstone. Good classical introduction into cryptography and ciphers.
• The joy of Cryptography by Mike Rosulek. A lot of basic stuff covered really well. No ECC.

Lectures and educational courses

• Understanding cryptography: A textbook for Students and Practitioners Textbook, great lectures and problems to solve.
• Crypto101 Crypto 101 is an introductory course on cryptography, freely available for programmers of all ages and skill levels.