Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   University of Arizona
ECE 596C

Cryptography for Secure Communications with Applications to Network Security

Spring 2008


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Useful resources

Useful Resources:
Book Resources

Handbook of Applied Cryptography by A. Menezes, P. Oorschot, S. Vanstone, CRC Press, 1996
Available online for free (please read the copyright notice).

Network Security, Private Communication in a Public World, by C Kaufman, R. Perlman and M. Speciner, Prentice Hall, 2002.
Publisher's Link

Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practices, 4th Edition, by William Stallings, Prentice Hall, 2005.
Author's Link


Interesting Articles

Shannon's Article on "Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems," 1949
Article: PDF

Original RSA paper published in 1978
"A Method for obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-key Cryptosystems,"
R. L. Rivest, A. Shamir, L. M. Adelman
Article: PDF

An earlier note on the feasibility of RSA by C.C. Cocks (1973)
Article: PDF

Breaking MD5, Eurocrypt 2005
"How to Break MD5 and Other Hash Functions"
X. Wang, H. Yu
Article: Link

Miscellaneous

An Interesting Presentation on the Distribution of Primes Link

Crypto Conference Papers Link

Are you stuck with your research?
Automatic Cryptography Research Topic Generator, by M. Bellare Link

Latex Tutorial: If you are not already familiar with, by Andrew Roberts
Link
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