References, CPSC 418 / MATH 318, Winter 2024

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Learning Resources

Python cryptography library
Khan Academy's unit on cryptography
Sponge Functions Corner (Team Keccak)
Peter Norwig's English language frequencies website

News and Blogs

Bruce Schneier's CRYPTOGRAM
SANS (NewsBytes, @RISK, Ouch!!!)
SecurityFocus (Vulnerabilities, BugTraq)

Organizations and Institutes

International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR)
The Government of Canada's Communications Security Establishment (CSE)
- Student placement at CSE
- Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing (TIMC)
University of Calgary's Institute for Security, Privacy and Information Assurance (ISPIA)
University of Waterloo's Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research (CACR)
Calgary's Security Professionals Information Exchange (SPIE)

Standards Bodies with Cryptography Standards

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- NIST cryptographic standards and guidelines
- NIST's Hash functions page
- NIST's Post-quantum cryptography standardization
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
IEEE Standards Association
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
- IETF RFC editor

Selected Books and Articles

Handbook of Applied Cryptography (A. Menezes, P. van Oorschot and S. Vanstone)
Another Look at "Provable Security (N. Koblitz and A.J. Menezes, 2004)
Another Look at "Provable Security II (N. Koblitz and A.J. Menezes, 2006)
Critical perspectives on provable security: Fifteen years of "another look" papers (N. Koblitz and A.J. Menezes, 2019)
Why Cryptosystems Fail (R. Anderson, 1993)
Security Engineering (R. Anderson, 2001, 2008, 2020)

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