A course in number theory and cryptography

Name: A course in number theory and cryptography
ISBN: 0387942939

by Neal Koblitz · first published 1987

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throwaway81523 · Nov 14, 2024 · Recommends

That sounds great and I'll try to look. I liked Neal Koblitz's book "A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography" a while back, another resource that might be of interest.
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ReidZB · May 25, 2014 · Mentions

…al.'s An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography is a wonderful text, highly thought of, that really is a better choice than the above link for this sort of thing. Another shorter text is Koblitz's A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography, but I think all of the material in that is also in Hoffstein et al.'s Introduction. For a practical implementation-oriented treatment, Cryptography Engineering by Ferguson, Schneier, and Kohno is a…
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sweis · May 27, 2022 · Mentions

…Goldreich's "Foundations of Cryptography" books are the rigorous, theoretical oriented books used in many grad-level crypto courses: https://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~oded/foc-book.html Neil Koblitz has "A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography", which I haven't read, but is often used: https://www.amazon.com/Course-Number-Cryptography-Graduate-M... Also, Boneh and Shoup is good and mentioned in other comments: https://toc.cryptobook.us/
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