Programming Books

The Best Cryptography Books

1. 

   4 Rankings

   Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C

   by Bruce Schneier
2. 

   2 Rankings

   Handbook of Applied Cryptography

   by Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot, Scott A. Vanstone
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   2 Rankings

   The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

   by Simon Singh
4. 

   1 Ranking

   Practical Cryptography

   by Niels Ferguson, Bruce Schneier
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   1 Ranking

   Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age

   by Steven Levy
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   1 Ranking

   The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet

   by David Kahn