Topic: Book recommendations about cryptography? - page 2. (Read 656 times)

Maybe somebody know good video/audio courses from where to learn?

Thanks, yeah I think Schneier are good reads, but probably not the type of in-depth technical education that OP seems to want to access. Speaking of good reads, no one is better or more experienced than Antonopoulos in delivering basic understanding in an easily digestible manner. His books are very easy to find online (they're just collections of his lectures and notes).

I've been looking also at a few formal institutions but it's really hard to tell which is "the best", especially when searching online doesn't seem to turn up graduates from these institutions. I'm very tempted to try the long distance degree from Cyprus/Nicosia uni (that's where Antonopoulos lectures), but it's a Computer Science degree, so might not focus heavily on security. In terms of recognition though, it might not be up there with the Top 200 unis, but its specific attention to crypto (Bitcoin, actually) makes it attractive.

He should search for his blog "Schneier on security" It should be online still. There are a lot of academic papers and articles. It's a good start.
But the best of the best is to go back to school and to go to a European university because there are the best. Israel has some quite good but not the best, let's say second quality choice lol

EDIT: schneier.com/academic/

Check out "Understanding cryptography" by Christof Paar, it's a good starting point. Another good one to start with is "Introduction to Modern Cryptography" by Jonathan Katz & Yehuda Lindell.

Both  "Cryptography Engineering" and "Practical Cryptography" by Bruce Schneier are worth a read as well.

There's also a "Handbook of Applied Cryptography", which is available for free in PDF format here: http://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/hac/

Found this book, THE CODE BOOK by Simon Singh which explains the technical and mathematical process behind the most difficult codes and how they were broken. You'll love this if you're looking for history of cryptography.

"Cryptography: An Introduction" by Nigel Smart is a great and free book about cryptography, it covers well all the cryptographic primitives like hash functions, public key cryptography, symmetric ciphers. If you don't have a solid grasp of these subjects, I highly recommend reading that book, although it may be a bit hard to read due to heavy math notation.

I've been trying to do the same myself, but have limited success with gathering academic material. One starting point I tried was to look into cypherpunk resources (I thought, hey, it's the birthplace of Bitcoin, right?) and there were some good presentations from a few names like Jameson Lopp. I was very surprised that MIT resources didn't seem that good, but probably their best ones are close-sourced (boo!). These are all basic, though... but I found them useful. I also recommend the Lynda series on cryptography and network security for idiots like me.

For more "cutting edge research" I'm guessing very little is open source or free to access. But try security journals... this is one good journal (IEEE) in my bookmark: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=8013

If you search hard enough (I guess you know where to look), you can find some torrents for some copies. I have access though, as am doing a long distance degree so pretty much have good access from OpenAthens.

If you're interested in a title like below, I don't mind passing on. Not embarrassed at all to say they were a tad too technical for me, so you can imagine I'm not from a programming background:
Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption - Jean-Philippe Aumasson (2017)

Anyone else able and willing to share resources?

Doesn't necessarily have to be books,
I'm trying to gather research material about cryptography relating to the blockchain
Especially the cutting edge research like DAG, zk-snarks, alternative consensus algorithms, alternative blockchain protocols