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• Applied Cryptography - Bruce Schneier. A comprehensive tutorial and reference but a little light on mathematical theory.
• The Code Book - Simon Singh. Traces the development of codes and code-breaking from military espionage in ancient Greece to modern computer ciphers.

  Codes and Ciphers Robert Churchhouse. Describes and analyses systems from the earliest to the most recent. http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521810548.htm

  Contemporary Cryptology Gustavus J. Simmons. Subtitled "The Science of Information Integrity". Has emphasis on the cryptographic elements of the subject. http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0780353528.html

  Cryptography book recommendations Cryptography book reviews, links to online erratas, and free book downloads. Most books have charts that recommend prerequisite books, mathematics and programming language experience. http://www.youdzone.com/cryptobooks.html

  Cryptography for Visual Basic Richard Bondi. Subtitled "A Programmer's Guide to the Microsoft CryptoAPI" which describes what the book is about. http://www.cryptovb.com/books/bondi/bondi.html

  Cryptography Theory and Practice Douglas Stinson. Subtitled "Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications". Written with more emphasis on theory than practice, as acknowledged in the preface. http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/~dstinson/CTAP.html

  Handbook of Applied Cryptography The online version of the 1996 CRC book by Menezes, van Oorschot and Vanstone (5th edition) in PostScript and PDF formats. http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/

  In Code Sarah Flannery's supplement to her book "In Code", describing her Cayley-Purser algorithm. http://cryptome.org/flannery-cp.htm

  An Introduction to Cryptography Richard A. Mollin. Intended for a one-semester introductory undergraduate course in cryptography. Covers symmetric and public key systems with chapters on advanced topics. http://math.ucalgary.ca/~ramollin/cryptopref.html

  The Mathematics of Ciphers S.C. Coutinho. An introduction to number theory and its applications to cryptography. A revised and updated translation from original in Portuguese. http://www.dcc.ufrj.br/~collier/livros/criptoE.html

  Primality and Cryptography Evangelos Kranakis. A comprehensive account of recent algorithms developed in computational number theory and primality testing. http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471909343.html

  Quantum Cryptography and Secret-Key Distillation Site accompanying the book by Gilles Van Assche. Includes table of contents, text of the introduction, an errata and a hyperlinked bibliography. http://gva.noekeon.org/QCandSKD/

  Security Engineering Anderson, Ross. Author describes book in his own words. He explains how "pure" cryptography is not quite so pure when expressed in the context of real world applications. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html