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Cryptography
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Computing
- Sage: a python "unification" of mathematical libraries.
- Victor Shoup's Number Theory Library for efficient and easy-to-use number-theoretical computations: very useful in public-key cryptanalysis.
- GNU's GMP Library for large integer arithmetic.
- The MPFR library for multiple-precision floating-point arithmetic.
- PARI/GP for all kinds of mathematical computations.
- Installing Linux on a laptop
Cryptography
- Free and useful books
- Victor Shoup's "A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and Algebra": basic algorithmic number theory useful to cryptography.
- The Handbook of Applied Cryptography: some parts are a bit outdated now, but very useful still.
- Oded Goldreich's Foundations of Cryptography: preliminary versions are available.
- Crypto standards
- NIST' Crypto toolkit: a description of US crypto standards.
- RSA Labs's Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS).
- ISO 18033-2: An Emerging Standard for Public-Key Encryption.
- IEEE P1363: Standard Specifications For Public-Key Cryptography.
- Crypto lecture notes
- ENS' Conception et preuves d'algorithmes cryptographiques (100 pages in French, former 2004 course): selected topics in cryptology.
- Goldwasser-Bellare's Lecture Notes on Cryptography.
- Bellare-Rogaway's Introduction to Modern Cryptography.
- Ostrovsky's Introduction to Cryptography.
More Cryptography
- Some Crypto-Related Organizations
- IACR (International Association for Cryptologic Research).
- ECCC (Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity).
- AMS (American Mathematical Society).
- ACM (Association for Computing Machinery).
- IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).
- SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics).
- NSA (National Security Agency).