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Materials used in this course include:

• Textbook: William Stallings, Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice, 5th Ed., Prentice Hall, 2011.

• Textbook: Steven Levy, Crypto: How the code rebels beat the government - saving privacy in the digital age, Steven Levy/Penguin Books, 2002.

• Richard A. Mollin, An Introduction to Cryptography, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2001.

• Albrecht Beutelspacher, Cryptology, The Mathematical Association of America, 1994.

• Johannes A. Buchmann, Introduction to Cryptography, Springer, 2001.

• Douglas R. Stinson, Cryptography, Theory and Practice, CRC, 1995.

Other resources:

• The author maintains a website for students with information related to the book and cryptography in general.
• The Sage website. Sage is an open-source, multiplatform, freeware package that implements a very powerful, flexible, and easily learned mathematics and computer algebra system.