Suggested Books

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Suggested (Introductory) Textbooks

Main references

Most of the course topics are covered by one of these two books:

• 🇮🇹 Daniele Venturi, Crittografia nel Paese delle Meraviglie, Springer, Collana di Informatica, 2012.
• Jonathan Katz and Yehuda Lindell, Introduction to Modern Cryptography, CRC Press, Second Edition, 2014.

There are also these lecture notes which could be very useful:

• Jonathan Katz, Lecture Notes for a course on Advanced Topics in Cryptography, Sping 2004.
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Specific topics

For a deeper study, consider the following books which target specific topics.

Digital Signatures

• Jonathan Katz, Digital Signatures, Springer, 2010.

Identity-Based Encryption

• Sanjit Chatterjee and Palash Sarkar, Identity-Based Encryption, Springer, 2011.

Pseudorandomness

• Salil P. Vadhan, Pseudorandomness, Foundations and Trends in Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 7, Issue 1-3, 2012. Freely available here.