Resources

Here is a list of some helpful links. If you find something else that should be on this list, please tell me about it! I would love to know what resources you’re finding useful.

You can find some cryptography-related SageCells on the SageMath Wiki.

Here are some books about cryptography:

• Hoffstein, Pipher, and Silverman. An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography.
• Goldreich. Foundations of Cryptography I.
• Focca. Cryptology through History and Inquiry.
• Singh. The Code Book.
• Stein. Elementary Number Theory: Primes, Congruences, and Secrets.
• Menezes, van Oorschot, and Vanstone. Handbook of Applied Cryptography.

Here are some other relevant books:

• Diez, Cetinkaya-Rundel, and Barr. OpenIntro Statistics.
• Burton. Elementary Number Theory.

Breaking classical ciphers This is a link to a Sagecell to help break classical ciphers.