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# Applied Cryptography

> A collection of awesome software, learning tutorials, theoretical resources, books and videos, best practices in applied cryptography.

> Thanks to all contributors, you're awesome and wouldn't be possible without you! Our goal is to build a categorized community-driven collection of very well-known resources



## Table of Contents

- [Introduction](#introduction)

- [The List](#the-list)

- [Specific Topics](#specific-topics)

- [Books](#books)

- [Courses](#courses)

- [Coding](#coding)

- [Lectures and Educational Courses](#lectures-and-educational-courses)

- [License](#license)



## Introduction



* [Introducing people to data security and cryptography](#introducing-people-to-data-security-and-cryptography).

  * [Simple: cryptography for non-engineers](#simple-cryptography-for-non-engineers).

  * [Brief engineer-oriented introductions](#brief-engineer-oriented-introductions).

* [Specific topics](#specific-topcs).

  * [Hashing](#hashing) - important bits on modern and classic hashes.

  * [Secret key cryptography](#secret-key-cryptography) - all things symmetric encryption.

  * [Cryptanalysis](#cryptanalysis) - attacking cryptosystems.

  * [Public key cryptography: General and DLP](#public-key-cryptography-general-and-dlp) - RSA, DH and other classic techniques.

  * [Public key cryptography: Elliptic-curve crypto](#public-key-cryptography-elliptic-curve-crypto) - ECC, with focus on pratcial cryptosystems.

  * [Zero Knowledge Proofs](#zero-knowledge-proofs) - Proofs of knowledge and other non-revealing cryptosystems.

  * [Math](#math) - useful math materials in cryptographic context.

  * [Post-quantum cryptography](#post-quantum-cryptography) - Cryptography in post-quantum period.

* [Books](#books).

* [Lectures and educational courses](#lectures-and-educational-courses).

* [Online crypto challenges](#online-crypto-challenges).



## The list



### Introducing people to data security and cryptography



#### Simple: cryptography for non-engineers



* [Nuts and Bolts of Encryption: A Primer for Policymakers](https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~felten/encryption_primer.pdf).

* [Keys under Doormats](https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/97690/MIT-CSAIL-TR-2015-026.pdf) - Or why cryptography shouldn't be backdoored, by a all-star committee of crypto researches from around the world. 



#### Brief introductions



* [An Overview of Cryptography](http://www.garykessler.net/library/crypto.html) - By Gary C. Kessler.

* [Using Encryption for Authentication in Large Networks](http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs268/sp02/cached_papers/needham.pdf) - By Needham, Schroeder: this is were crypto-based auth starts.

* [Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems](http://netlab.cs.ucla.edu/wiki/files/shannon1949.pdf) - Fundamental cryptography paper by Claude Shannon.



#### General cryptographic interest



* [Another Look at “Provable Security”](https://eprint.iacr.org/2004/152.pdf) - Inquiries into formalism and naive intuition behind security proofs, by Neal Koblitz et al.

* [The security impact of a new cryptographic library](https://cryptojedi.org/papers/coolnacl-20120725.pdf) - Introductory paper on NaCl, discussing important aspects of implementing cryptography and using it as a larger building block in security systems, by Daniel J. Bernstein, Tanja Lange, Peter Schwabe.






## Specific topics



#### Hashing



* [FIPS 198-1: HMACs](http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/FIPS/NIST.FIPS.198-1.pdf) - The Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code FIPS document.

* [FIPS 202: SHA3](http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/FIPS/NIST.FIPS.202.pdf) - SHA-3 Standard: Permutation-Based Hash and Extendable-Output Functions.

* [Birthday problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem) - The best simple explanation of math behind [birthday attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_attack).

* [On the Security of HMAC and NMAC Based on HAVAL, MD4, MD5, SHA-0 and SHA-1](https://eprint.iacr.org/2006/187.pdf) - Security analysis of different legacy HMAC schemes by Jongsung Kim et al. 

* [On the Security of Randomized CBC-MAC Beyond the Birthday Paradox Limit ](https://eprint.iacr.org/2001/074) - Security of randomized CBC-MACs and a new construction that resists birthday paradox attacks and provably reaches full security, by E. Jaulmes et al.



#### Secret key cryptography



* [FIPS 197](http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/FIPS/NIST.FIPS.197.pdf) - AES FIPS document.

* [List of proposed operation modes of AES](http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/BCM/modes_development.html) - Maintained by NIST.

* [Recomendation for Block Cipher modes of operation: Methods and Techniques](http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication800-38a.pdf).

* [Stick figure guide to AES](http://www.moserware.com/2009/09/stick-figure-guide-to-advanced.html) - If stuff above was a bit hard or you're looking for a good laugh.

* [Cache timing attacks on AES](http://cr.yp.to/antiforgery/cachetiming-20050414.pdf) - Example of designing great practical attack on cipher implementation, by Daniel J. Bernstein.

* [Cache Attacks and Countermeasures: the Case of AES](http://cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/papers/cache.pdf) - Side channel attacks on AES, another view, by Dag Arne Osvik, Adi Shamir and Eran Tromer.

* [Salsa20 family of stream ciphers](https://cr.yp.to/snuffle/salsafamily-20071225.pdf) - Broad explanation of Salsa20 security cipher by Daniel J. Bernstein.

* [New Features of Latin Dances: Analysis of Salsa, ChaCha, and Rumba](https://eprint.iacr.org/2007/472.pdf) - Analysis of Salsa20 family of ciphers, by Jean-Philippe Aumasson et al.

* [ChaCha20-Poly1305 Cipher Suites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)](https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-chacha20-poly1305-04) - IETF Draft of ciphersuite family, by Adam Langley et al.

* [AES submission document on Rijndael](https://csrc.nist.gov/csrc/media/projects/cryptographic-standards-and-guidelines/documents/aes-development/rijndael-ammended.pdf#page=1) - Original Rijndael proposal by Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen.

* [Ongoing Research Areas in Symmetric Cryptography](http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/ecrypt1/documents/D.STVL.3-2.5.pdf) - Overview of ongoing research in secret key crypto and hashes by ECRYPT Network of Excellence in Cryptology.

* [The Galois/Counter Mode of Operation (GCM)](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.694.695&rep=rep1&type=pdf) - Original paper introducing GCM, by by David A. McGrew and John Viega.

* [The Security and Performance of the Galois/Counter Mode (GCM) of Operation](https://eprint.iacr.org/2004/193.pdf) - Design, analysis and security of GCM, and, more specifically, AES GCM mode, by David A. McGrew and John Viega.

* [GCM Security Bounds Reconsidered](https://www.iacr.org/archive/fse2015/85400168/85400168.pdf) - An analysis and algorithm for nonce generation for AES GCM with higher counter-collision probability, by Yuichi Niwa, Keisuke Ohashi, Kazuhiko Minematsu, Tetsu Iwata.

* [Proxy-Mediated Searchable Encryption in SQL Databases Using Blind Indexes](https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/806.pdf) - An overview of existing searchable encryption schemes, and analysis of scheme built on AES-GCM, blind index and bloom filter by Eugene Pilyankevich, Dmytro Kornieiev, Artem Storozhuk.



#### Cryptanalysis



* [Differential Cryptanalysis of Salsa20/8](http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/stream/papersdir/2007/010.pdf) - A great example of stream cipher cryptanalysis, by Yukiyasu Tsunoo et al.

* [Slide Attacks on a Class of Hash Functions](https://eprint.iacr.org/2008/263) - Applying slide attacks (typical cryptanalysis technique for block ciphers) to hash functions, M. Gorski et al.

* [Self-Study Course in Block Cipher Cryptanalysis](https://www.schneier.com/academic/archives/2000/01/self-study_course_in.html) - Attempt to organize the existing literature of block-cipher cryptanalysis in a way that students can use to learn cryptanalytic techniques and ways to break new algorithms, by Bruce Schneier.

* [Statistical Cryptanalysis of Block Ciphers](http://crypto.junod.info/phdthesis.pdf) - By Pascal Junod.

* [Cryptanalysis of block ciphers and protocols](http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/users/wwwb/cgi-bin/tr-info.cgi/2006/PHD/PHD-2006-04) - By Elad Pinhas Barkan.

* [Too much crypto](https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1492.pdf) - Analysis of number of rounds for symmetric cryptography primitives, and suggestions to do fewer rounds, by Jean-Philippe Aumasson.

* [How to Break MD5 and Other Hash Functions](https://iacr.org/archive/eurocrypt2005/34940019/34940019.pdf) - A 2005 paper about modular differential collision attack on MD5, MD4 and other hash functions, by Xiaoyun Wang and Hongbo Yu.

* [New attacks on Keccak-224 and Keccak-256](https://www.iacr.org/archive/fse2012/75490447/75490447.pdf) - A 2012 paper about using the combination of differential and algebraic techniques for collision attacks on SHA-3, by Itai Dinur, Orr Dunkelman, Adi Shamir.

* [A Single-Key Attack on the Full GOST Block Cipher](https://www.iacr.org/archive/fse2011/67330297/67330297.pdf) - An attack ("Reflection-Meet-inthe-Middle Attack") on GOST block cipher that allows to recover key with 2^225 computations and 2^32 known plaintexts, by Takanori Isobe.

* [Intro to Linear & Differential Cryptanalysis](http://www.cs.bc.edu/~straubin/crypto2017/heys.pdf) - A beginner-friendly paper explaining and demonstrating techniques for linear and differential cryptanalysis.



#### Public key cryptography: General and DLP



* [New Directions in Cryptography](https://www-ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/publications/24.pdf) - Seminal paper by Diffie and Hellman, introducing public key cryptography and key exchange/agreement protocol.

* [RFC 2631: Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2631) - An explanation of the Diffie-Hellman methon in more engineering terms.

* [A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems](https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Rsapaper.pdf) -  Original paper introducing RSA algorithm. 

* [RSA Algorithm](http://www.di-mgt.com.au/rsa_alg.html) - Rather education explanation of every bit behind RSA.

* [Secure Communications Over Insecure Channels ](http://www.merkle.com/1974/PuzzlesAsPublished.pdf) - Paper by R. Merkle,   predated "New directions in cryptography" though it was published after it. The Diffie-Hellman key exchange is an implementation of such a Merkle system.

* [On the Security of Public Key Protocols ](http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~dolev/pubs/dolev-yao-ieee-01056650.pdf) - Dolev-Yao model is a formal model, used to prove properties of interactive cryptographic protocols.

* [How to Share a Secret](https://github.com/arupmondal-cs/Crypto-Research/blob/master/Secret%20Sharing/shamirturing.pdf) - A safe method for sharing secrets.

* [Twenty Years of Attacks on the RSA Cryptosystem](http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs/papers/RSA-survey.pdf) - Great inquiry into attacking RSA and it's internals, by Dan Boneh. 

* [Remote timing attacks are practical](http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/papers/ssl-timing.pdf) - An example in attacking practical crypto implementationby D. Boneh, D. Brumley.

* [The Equivalence Between the DHP and DLP for Elliptic Curves Used in Practical Applications, Revisited](https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/307.pdf) - by K. Bentahar.



#### Public key cryptography: Elliptic-curve crypto



* [Elliptic Curve cryptography: A gentle introduction](http://andrea.corbellini.name/2015/05/17/elliptic-curve-cryptography-a-gentle-introduction/).

* [Explain me like I'm 5: How digital signatures actually work](http://blog.oleganza.com/post/162861219668/eli5-how-digital-signatures-actually-work) - EdDSA explained with ease and elegance.

* [Elliptic Curve Cryptography: finite fields and discrete logarithms](http://andrea.corbellini.name/2015/05/23/elliptic-curve-cryptography-finite-fields-and-discrete-logarithms/).

* [Detailed Elliptic Curve cryptography tutorial](https://www.johannes-bauer.com/compsci/ecc/).

* [Elliptic Curve Cryptography: ECDH and ECDSA](http://andrea.corbellini.name/2015/05/30/elliptic-curve-cryptography-ecdh-and-ecdsa/).

* [Elliptic Curve Cryptography: breaking security and a comparison with RSA](http://andrea.corbellini.name/2015/06/08/elliptic-curve-cryptography-breaking-security-and-a-comparison-with-rsa/).

* [Elliptic Curve Cryptography: the serpentine course of a paradigm shift](http://eprint.iacr.org/2008/390.pdf) - Historic inquiry into development of ECC and it's adoption.

* [Let's construct an elliptic curve: Introducing Crackpot2065](http://blog.bjrn.se/2015/07/lets-construct-elliptic-curve.html) - Fine example of building up ECC from scratch.

* [Explicit-Formulas Database](http://www.hyperelliptic.org/EFD/) - For many elliptic curve representation forms.

* [Curve25519: new Diffie-Hellman speed records](https://cr.yp.to/ecdh/curve25519-20060209.pdf) - Paper on Curve25519.

* [Software implementation of the NIST elliptic curves over prime fields](http://delta.cs.cinvestav.mx/~francisco/arith/julio.pdf) - Pracitcal example of implementing elliptic curve crypto, by M. Brown et al.

* [High-speed high-security signatures](https://ed25519.cr.yp.to/ed25519-20110926.pdf) - Seminal paper on EdDSA signatures on ed25519 curve by Daniel J. Bernstein et al.



#### Zero Knowledge Proofs



* [Proofs of knowledge](https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~mihir/papers/pok.pdf) - A pair of papers which investigate the notions of proof of knowledge and proof of computational ability, M. Bellare and O. Goldreich.

* [How to construct zero-knowledge proof systems for NP](http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~oded/gmw1.html) - Classic paper by Goldreich,  Micali and Wigderson.

* [Proofs that yield nothing but their validity and a Methodology of Cryptographic protocol design](http://www.math.ias.edu/~avi/PUBLICATIONS/MYPAPERS/GMW86/GMW86.pdf) - By Goldreich,  Micali and Wigderson, a relative to the above. 

* [A Survey of Noninteractive Zero Knowledge Proof System and Its Applications](https://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/2014/560484/).

* [How to Prove a Theorem So No One Else Can Claim It](https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.469.9048&rep=rep1&type=pdf) - By Manuel Blum.

* [Information Theoretic Reductions among Disclosure Problems](http://crypto.cs.mcgill.ca/~crepeau/BCR86.pdf) - Brassau et al.

* [Knowledge complexity of interactive proof systems](https://github.com/manjunath5496/Shafi-Goldwasser-Publications/blob/master/1989-siamjc.pdf) - By GoldWasser, Micali and Rackoff. Defining computational complexity of "knowledge" within zero knowledge proofs. 

* [A Survey of Zero-Knowledge Proofs with Applications to Cryptography](http://www.austinmohr.com/work/files/zkp.pdf) - Great intro on original ZKP protocols.

* [Zero Knowledge Protocols and Small Systems](https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.186.4901&rep=rep1&type=pdf) - A good intro into Zero knowledge protocols.

* [Multi-Theorem Preprocessing NIZKs from Lattices](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-96881-0_25) - Construction of non-interactive zero-knowledge (NIZK) proofs using lattice-based preprocessing models, by Sam Kim and David J. Wu.



#### Key Management



* [Recommendation for Key Management – Part 1: General](http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-57pt1r4.pdf) - Methodologically very relevant document on goals and procedures of key management. 

* [Selecting Cryptographic Key Sizes](https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00145-001-0009-4.pdf) - Classic paper from 1999 with guidelines for the determination of key sizes for symmetric cryptosystems, RSA, ECC, by Arjen K. Lenstra and Eric R. Verheul.



#### Math



* [PRIMES is in P](https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/manindra/algebra/primality_v6.pdf) - Unconditional deterministic polynomial-time algorithm that determines whether an input number is prime or composite.



#### Post-quantum cryptography



* [Post-quantum cryptography - dealing with the fallout of physics success](https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/314.pdf) - Brief observation of mathematical tasks that can be used to build cryptosystems secure against attacks by post-quantum computers.

* [Post-quantum cryptography](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicolas_Sendrier/publication/226115302_Code-Based_Cryptography/links/540d62d50cf2df04e7549388/Code-Based-Cryptography.pdf) - Introduction to post-quantum cryptography.

* [Post-quantum RSA](https://cr.yp.to/papers/pqrsa-20170419.pdf) - Daniel Bernshtein's insight how to save RSA in post-quantum period.






## Books



That seems somewhat out of scope, isn't it? But these are books only fully available online for free. Read them as a sequence of papers if you will.



* [A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography](https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/cryptobook/) - By Dan Boneh and Victor Shoup. A well-balanced introductory course into cryptography, a bit of cryptanalysis and cryptography-related security.

* [Analysis and design of cryptographic hash functions, MAC algorithms and block ciphers](https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/publications/thesis-16.pdf) - Broad overview of design and cryptanalysis of various ciphers and hash functions, by Bart Van Rompay.

* [CrypTool book](https://www.cryptool.org/en/ctp-documentation/ctbook) - Predominantly mathematically oriented information on learning, using and experimenting cryptographic procedures.

* [Handbook of Applied Cryptography](https://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/hac/) - By Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot and Scott A. Vanstone. Good classical introduction into cryptography and ciphers.

* [The joy of Cryptography](http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~rosulekm/crypto/) - By Mike Rosulek. A lot of basic stuff covered really well. No ECC.

* [A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and Algebra](http://www.shoup.net/ntb/) - By Victor Shoup, excellent starters book on math universally used in cryptography.



- [Introduction to Modern Cryptography (2nd edition)](http://www.cs.umd.edu/~jkatz/imc.html) by Jonathan Katz and Yehuda Lindell

- [A Course in Cryptography](http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs4830/2010fa/lecnotes.pdf) by Rafael Pass and Abhi Shelat

- [A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography](http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/cryptobook/) by Dan Boneh and Victor Shoup

- [Lecture Notes on Cryptography](https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~mihir/papers/gb.pdf) by Shafi Goldwasser and Mihir Bellare

- [Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption](http://index-of.es/Varios-2/Serious%20Cryptography%20A%20Practical%20Introduction%20to%20Modern%20Encryption%20(2).pdf) by JP Aumasson

- [Handbook of Applied Cryptography](https://notendur.hi.is/pgg/Handbook%20of%20Applied%20Cryptography.pdf)

- [The Foundations of Cryptography](http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~oded/foc-book.html) by Oded Goldreich

- [Handbook of Applied Cryptography](http://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/hac/) by Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot and Scott A. Vanstone

- [Foundations of Cryptography 89-856](http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~lindell/89-856/complete-89-856.pdf) by Yehuda Lindell

- [Mathematical Cryptology](http://math.tut.fi/~ruohonen/MC.pdf) by Keijo Ruohonen

- [Introduction to Reliable and Secure Distributed Programming](https://github.com/ChrisLinn/chrislinn.ink/tree/master/res/IntroductionToReliableAndSecur_Book_2011.pdf)

- [Crypto 101](https://github.com/crypto101/book)

- [Intuitive Advanced Cryptography](https://github.com/cryptosubtlety/intuitive-advanced-cryptography)

- [Privacy for identities](https://github.com/crypto-cypher/privacy-for-identities/)

- [Practical-Cryptography-for-Developers-Book](https://github.com/nakov/Practical-Cryptography-for-Developers-Book)

- [An intensive introduction to cryptography](https://intensecrypto.org/public/) by Boaz Barak

- [Elliptic Curve Handbook](http://webs.ucm.es/BUCM/mat/doc8354.pdf) by Ian Connell

- [Pseudorandomness](https://people.seas.harvard.edu/~salil/pseudorandomness/) by Salil Vadhan



## Courses



- [Graduate Cryptography (Topics in Theory)](http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wichs/class/crypto-fall15/index.html) from Northeastern

- [Foundations of Cryptography](http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wichs/class/crypto-fall17/index.html) from Northeastern

- [Introduction to Cryptography](https://cims.nyu.edu/~regev/teaching/crypto_fall_2014/) from NYU

- [Randomness in Cryptography](https://cs.nyu.edu/courses/spring14/CSCI-GA.3220-001/index.html) from NYU

- [Cryptography](https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring10/cos433/) from Princeton

- [Cryptography](https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/cs598man/sp2016/) from UIUC

- [Applied Cryptography](http://soc1024.ece.illinois.edu/teaching/ece498ac/fall2019/) from UIUC

- [Classics of Cryptography](https://crypto.stanford.edu/cs359c/17sp/index.html) from Stanford

- [Cryptography](https://moodle.cs.huji.ac.il/cs14/course/view.php?id=67531) from Hebrew

- [Cryptography](https://www.boazbarak.org/cs127spring16/) from Harvard

- [Advanced Topics in Cryptography](http://www.cs.umd.edu/~jkatz/gradcrypto2/scribes.html) from UMD

    - [Suggested Readings](http://www.cs.umd.edu/~jkatz/gradcrypto2/links.html)

- [Introduction to Cryptography](http://www.cs.umd.edu/~jkatz/crypto/s19/lectures.html) from UMD

    - [Lecture notes for Fall '02](http://www.cs.umd.edu/~jkatz/crypto/f02/lectures.html)

    - [Suggested Readings](http://www.cs.umd.edu/~jkatz/crypto/f02/readings.html)

- [Secure Computation](http://www.cs.umd.edu/~jkatz/gradcrypto2/f13/scribes.html) from UMD

- [Practical Cryptographic Systems](http://spar.isi.jhu.edu/~mgreen/650.445/650.445__Main.html) from JHU ([Github link](https://github.com/matthewdgreen/practicalcrypto))

- [Advanced Topics in Secure and Censorship-Resistant Communications](https://github.com/matthewdgreen/censorship) from JHU

- [Cryptography](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~alexch/classes/CS276-F2017.html) from Berkeley

- [Advanced Cryptography](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~sanjamg/classes/cs294-spring18/) from Berkeley

- [Special Topic in Cryptography: Secure Computation](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~sanjamg/classes/cs294-spring16/) from Berkeley

- [Probabilistically Checkable and Interactive Proof Systems](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~alexch/classes/CS294-S2019.html) from Berkeley

- [Probabilistic Proof Systems](https://people.cs.georgetown.edu/jthaler/COSC544.html) from Georgetown

- [A Theorist's Toolkit](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~odonnell/toolkit13/) from CMU

- [Foundations of Privacy](https://course.ece.cmu.edu/~ece734/index.html) from CMU

- [Information-Theoretic Lower Bounds](https://theinformaticists.com/2019/09/16/online-lecture-information-theoretic-lower-bounds/)



## Coding



- [CryptoGotchas](https://github.com/SalusaSecondus/CryptoGotchas)

- [cryptocoding](https://github.com/veorq/cryptocoding)

- [go-scp](https://checkmarx.gitbooks.io/go-scp/content/)

- [Security with Go CH06: Cryptography](https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Security-with-Go/tree/master/Chapter06)



## Misc



- [An Overview of Cryptography](https://www.garykessler.net/library/crypto.html)

- [awesome-cryptography](https://github.com/sobolevn/awesome-cryptography)

- [Isis Agora Lovecruft's list](https://github.com/isislovecruft/library--/tree/master/cryptography%20%26%20mathematics)

- [Ben Lynn's notes](https://crypto.stanford.edu/pbc/notes/)

- [awesome-crypto-papers](https://github.com/pFarb/awesome-crypto-papers)

- [Quadralay's Cryptography Archive](https://www.austinlinks.com/Crypto/)

- https://intensecrypto.org/public/index.html

- http://safecurves.cr.yp.to/

- [awesome-zero-knowledge-proofs](https://github.com/matter-labs/awesome-zero-knowledge-proofs)

- [From Zero (Knowledge) to Bulletproofs](https://github.com/AdamISZ/from0k2bp)

- [Resources for Getting Started with MPC](http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~lindell/MPC-resources.html) by Yehuda Lindell

- [awesome-mpc](https://github.com/rdragos/awesome-mpc)

- https://tlu.tarilabs.com/cryptography/cryptography.html

- [What is the lowest level of mathematics required in order to understand how encryption algorithms work?](https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/10467/what-is-the-lowest-level-of-mathematics-required-in-order-to-understand-how-encr)






## Lectures and educational courses



* [Understanding cryptography: A textbook for Students and Practitioners](http://www.crypto-textbook.com/) - Textbook, great lectures and problems to solve.

* [Crypto101](https://www.crypto101.io/) - Crypto 101 is an introductory course on cryptography, freely available for programmers of all ages and skill levels.

* [A Course in Cryptography](https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs4830/2010fa/lecnotes.pdf) - Lecture notes by Rafael Pass, Abhi Shelat.

* [Lecture Notes on Cryptography](https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~mihir/papers/gb.pdf) - Famous set of lectures on cryptography by Shafi Goldwasser (MIT), M. Bellare (University of California).

* [Introduction to Cryptography by Christof Paar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aHkqB2-46k) - Video course by Christof Paar (University of Bochum in Germany). In english.

* [Cryptography I](https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto) - Stanford University course on Coursera, taught by prof. Dan Boneh. [Cryptography II](https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto2) is still in development.




### Online crypto challenges 



Not exactly papers, but crypto challenges are awesome educational material.



* [CryptoHack](https://cryptohack.org/)



* [Cryptopals crypto challenges](https://cryptopals.com/).



* [id0-rsa crypto challenges](https://id0-rsa.pub/).



* [MTC3](https://www.mysterytwisterc3.org/en/) - xipher contest with more than 200 challenges of different levels, a moderated forum, and a hall-of-fame.



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