Awesome Cryptography

A curated list of cryptography resources and links

• Theory

  • Books
  • Courses
  • Articles

• Frameworks and Libs

  • C
  • C++
  • C#
  • Clojure
  • Common Lisp
  • Delphi
  • Elixir
  • Golang
  • Haskell
  • Haxe
  • Java
  • Julia
  • Lua
  • Objective-C
  • PHP
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • Rust
  • Scala
  • Swift

• Resources

  • Websites
  • Weekly
  • Twitter

• Web Apps

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• Contributing

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Theory

• Books

  • An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography - is an introduction to modern cryptography.
  • Security Engineering - There is an extraordinary textbook written by Ross Anderson, professor of computer security at University of Cambridge.
  • OpenSSL Cookbook - The book about OpenSSL.
  • Crypto101 - Crypto 101 is an introductory course on cryptography.
  • Handbook of Applied Cryptography - This book is intended as a reference for professional cryptographers
  • Introduction to Modern Cryptography - is an introductory-level treatment of cryptography written from a modern, computer science perspective.
  • The Cryptoparty Handbook - This book provides a comprehensive guide to the various topics of the computer and internet security
  • Cryptography Engineering - Learn to build cryptographic protocols that work in the real world

• Courses

  • Cryptography I
  • Cryptography - Stanford University
  • Cybrary Cryptography
  • Applied Cryptography

Frameworks and Libs

• C

  • cryptlib - is an open source cross-platform software security toolkit library
  • retter - a collection of hash functions, ciphers, tools and libraries.
  • xxHash - Extremely fast hash algorithm
  • libtomcrypt - is a fairly comprehensive, modular and portable cryptographic toolkit
  • libgcrypt - is a cryptographic library developed as a separated module of GnuPG.
  • NaCl - high-speed library for network communication, encryption, decryption, signatures, etc.
  • tiny-AES128-C - Small portable AES128 in C.

• C++

  • Crypto++ - Crypto++ Library is a free C++ class library of cryptographic schemes.
  • Bcrypt - a cross platform file encryption utility.
  • Botan - is a cryptography library written in C++11
  • libsodium - a modern and easy-to-use crypto library.
  • Nettle -a low-level cryptographic library.
  • s2n - an implementation of the TLS/SSL protocols

• Clojure

  • buddy-core - Cryptographic Api.

• Common Lisp

  • crypto-shortcuts - Collection of common cryptography functions.
  • ironclad - Collection of common crypto shortcuts.
  • trivial-ssh - an SSH client library for Common Lisp (Built on libssh2)

• Delphi

  • DelphiEncryptionCompendium - Cryptographic library for Delphi.
  • LockBox - LockBox 3 is a Delphi library for cryptography.
  • SynCrypto - Fast cryptographic routines (hashing and cypher), implementing AES, XOR, RC4, ADLER32, MD5, SHA1, SHA256 algorithms, optimized for speed.
  • TForge - TForge is open-source crypto library written in Delphi, compatible with FPC.

• Elixir

  • cipher - Elixir crypto library to encrypt/decrypt arbitrary binaries.
  • cloak - Cloak makes it easy to use encryption with Ecto.
  • comeonin - Password authorization (bcrypt) library for Elixir.
  • elixir_tea - TEA implementation in Elixir.
  • elixir-rsa - public_key cryptography wrapper for Elixir.
  • ex_crypto - Elixir wrapper for Erlang crypto and public_key modules. Provides sensible defaults for many crypto functions to make them easier to use.
  • exgpg - Use gpg from Elixir.
  • pot - Erlang library for generating one time passwords compatible with Google Authenticator.
  • siphash-elixir - Elixir implementation of the SipHash hash family.

• Go

  • crypto - Official Website Resources.
  • cryptoballot - Cryptographically secure online voting.
  • dedis/crypto - Advanced crypto library for the Go language
  • gocrypto - Example source code for the Practical Crypto with Go book.

• Haskell

  • Cryptography & Hashing - Official Website of Haskell
  • Crypto - a collaborative Hackage list.
  • Cryptography - a collaborative Hackage list.

• Hexe

  • haxe-crypto - Haxe Cryptography Library.

• Java

  • Apache Shiro - Performs authentication, authorization, cryptography and session management.
  • Bouncy Castle - All-purpose cryptographic library. JCA provider, wide range of functions from basic helpers to PGP/SMIME operations.
  • Google Keyczar - Easy to use, yet safe encryption framework with key versioning.
  • pac4j - Security engine.

• Julia

  • Crypto.jl - A library that wraps OpenSSL, but also has pure Julia implementations for reference.

• Lua

  • LuaCrypto - Lua bindings to OpenSSL.
  • lua-lockbox - A collection of cryptographic primitives written in pure Lua.

• Objective-C

  • Themis - High-level crypto library, providing basic asymmetric encryption.

• PHP

  • halite - A simple library for encryption using libsodium.
  • PHP Encryption - This is a library for encrypting data with a key or password in PHP.
  • TCrypto - TCrypto is a simple and flexible PHP 5.3+ in-memory key-value storage library.

• Python

  • cryptography - is a Python library which exposes cryptographic recipes and primitives.
  • pycrypto - The Python Cryptography Toolkit
  • hashids - Implementation of hashids in Python.
  • paramiko - a Python implementation of the SSHv2 protocol, providing both client and server functionality.
  • pynacl - Python binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library

• Ruby

  • RbNaCl - Ruby binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library.

• Rust

  • ring - Safe, fast, small crypto using Rust & BoringSSL's cryptography primitives.
  • webpki - Web PKI TLS X.509 certificate validation in Rust.
  • rust-crypto - A (mostly) pure-Rust implementation of various cryptographic algorithms.
  • sodiumoxide - Sodium Oxide: Fast cryptographic library for Rust (bindings to libsodium).
  • suruga - TLS 1.2 implementation in Rust.
  • octavo - Highly modular & configurable hash & crypto library.
  • common.rs - Common Rust crypto utilities.
  • rust-openssl - OpenSSL bindings for Rust.

• Scala

  • scrypto - Cryptographic primitives for Scala.

• Swift

  • CryptoSwift - Crypto related functions and helpers for Swift implemented in Swift programming language.
  • IDZSwiftCommonCrypto - A wrapper for Apple's Common Crypto library written in Swift.
  • OpenSSL - Swift OpenSSL for OS X and Linux.
  • SweetHMAC - A tiny and easy to use Swift class to encrypt strings using HMAC algorithms.
  • Swift-Sodium - Swift interface to the Sodium library for common crypto operations for iOS and OS X.
  • SwiftSSL - An Elegant crypto toolkit in Swift.

Contributing