CS549: Cryptography and Network Security
Wonderful books (some are online)
v There are many good books online. See
http://library.books24x7.com.ezproxy.gl.iit.edu/bookshelf.asp
to search some good books about cryptography and network security.
v The official course text is Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice; Second Edition. By William Stallings, Prentice Hall, Hardcover, Published June 1998, 570 pages, ISBN 0138690170 .
v One useful text is
Network Security Essentials : Applications and
Standards by William
Stallings. Prentice Hall, Hardcover, Published November 1999, 366 pages,
ISBN 0130160938
v Another useful text, Cryptography: Theory and Practice by Douglas R. Stinson,
CRC press, hardcover, Published
March, 1995. ISBN 0-8493-8521-0
v
You will also find another text useful later in the
course: Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked
World by Bruce Schneier John Wiley, Published August 2000, 412
pages, ISBN 0471253111
v
Handbook of Applied Cryptography
by Alfred
J. Menezes,
Sample Chapters 
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Chapter 1 - Overview of Cryptography (48 pages)
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