Cryptology is the science of coding and decoding information. It is divided into Cryptography, which concerns designing cryptosystems, and Cryptanalysis, which is concerned with breaking cryptosystems.
Books[edit]
Handbook of Applied Cryptography by Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot and Scott A. Vanstone (free download as pdf or ISBN 0849385237) Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C by Bruce Schneier (ISBN 0471117099)
links[edit]
- cryptographyworld.com - An Introduction into Cryptography
- www.iacr.org - International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR)
- www.nsa.gov/kids/ - CryptoKids™
- Crypto Wiki