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Re:Ask HN: Best book on modern cryptography? by vector_spaces on Friday May 27, 2022 @03:20PM (#31533733)
To piggy back on this thread, can anyone recommend a book on cryptography for mathematicians? I'm familiar with some of the more popular applied books, but I'm also interested in more rigorous texts that use careful proofs and state theorems etc.
Re:Ask HN: Best book on modern cryptography? by c0742e9366 on Friday May 27, 2022 @03:30PM (#31533842)
As written below, "Introduction to Modern Cryptography" by Katz & Lindell. Another option would be "A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography" by Boneh & Shoup. However, for starting out, I would definitely recommend the former as it's more polished and focuses on the essentials.
Re:Ask HN: Best book on modern cryptography? by buescher on Friday May 27, 2022 @04:03PM (#31534240)
I took Boneh's graduate class a few years ago through SCPD. Recommended if you can justify it. He has a Coursera course that I assume is of similar high quality with less depth and rigor.

We used the above two books in addition to Handbook of Applied Cryptography by Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot and Scott A. Vanstone. I notice Boneh no longer uses the latter for CS255; perhaps it is too out of date now? At any rate, it is also available free on the web: https://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/hac/

Re:Ask HN: Best book on modern cryptography? by sweis on Friday May 27, 2022 @03:31PM (#31533846)
Oded 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/

Re:Ask HN: Best book on modern cryptography? by hovav on Friday May 27, 2022 @05:04PM (#31534882)
Steven Galbraith's Mathematics of Public Key Cryptography: https://www.math.auckland.ac.nz/~sgal018/crypto-book/crypto-...
Re:Ask HN: Best book on modern cryptography? by cartoonfoxes on Friday May 27, 2022 @06:42PM (#31535768)
J. Katz, and Y. Lindell, 2015: Introduction to Modern Cryptography, 2nd ed. CRC Press, 583 pp.
Re:Ask HN: Best book on modern cryptography? by ngneer on Friday May 27, 2022 @03:46PM (#31534023)
Cryptography: Theory and Practice, Third Edition by Douglas R. Stinson