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hangonhn on May 27, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Best book on modern cryptography?

Serious Cryptography https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593278268/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

It's quite accessible for non-math majors and includes source code. It seems to have been written with software engineers in mind. The formatting of the source code in Kindle isn't great but otherwise the book is excellent and balances between "cookbook" and "graduate level textbook". The author is also quite reputable having designed BLAKE2.

wepple on May 27, 2022 [–]

+1 on this, it hits the right spot between being not too mathy/theoretical but going sufficiently deep for most engineers.

It’s probably the right book for anyone who needs to learn more about crypto but isn’t planning to become a full time cryptographer

qorrect on May 27, 2022 | [–]

This sounds perfect thank you.

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