Resources

A collection of cryptography resources I have found useful. See also Ran Cohen’s Cryptography Online Talks Calendar and my list of lattice resources.

Blogs

• Albrecht: a blog about cryptography, math software and kittens
• Green: A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
• SandboxAQ: The Crypto Caffè
• zkproof.org: The Art of Zero Knowledge

Books and Lecture Notes in Cryptography

• Anderson: Security Engineering
• Barak: An Intensive Introduction to Cryptography
• Bellare: Lectures on NIZKs: A Concrete Security Treatment
• Boneh and Shoup: A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography
• Chiesa and Yogev: Building Cryptographic Proofs from Hash Functions
• Evans, Kolesnikov, and Rosulek: A Pragmatic Introduction to Secure Multi-Party Computation
• Galbraith: Mathematics of Public Key Cryptography
• Gjøsteen: Cryptography
• Goldwasser and Bellare: Lecture Notes on Cryptography
• Katz: Introduction to Cryptography
• Lindell: How To Simulate It – A Tutorial on the Simulation Proof Technique
• Menezes, van Oorschot and Vanstone: Handbook of Applied Cryptography
• Ostrovsky: Foundations of Cryptography
• Pass and Shelat: A Course in Cryptography
• Rosulek: The Joy of Cryptography
• Shoup: A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and Algebra
• Smart: Cryptography Made Simple
• Thaler: Proofs, Arguments, and Zero-Knowledge

Cryptography in Norway

• Mailing list: Cryptology in Norway
• Norwegian Crypto Seminar
• Cryptography Department at Simula UiB

Dagstuhl Seminars

• About Dagstuhl Seminars and the Seminar Calendar
• Real-World Cryptography (26371, September 2026)
• Privacy-Preserving Authentication (26171, April 2026)
• Symmetric Cryptography (26061, February 2026)
• Quantum Cryptanalysis (25431, October 2025)
• Trustworthy Evidence-Based Elections (25411, October 2025)

Exercises

• CryptoHack
• Cryptopals Crypto Challenges

International Association for Cryptologic Research

• Calendar of Events in Cryptology
• Cryptology ePrint Archive
• IACR YouTube channel
• Open Positions in Cryptology

Newsletters

• IACR: News
• Schneier: Crypto-Gram
• Valsorda: Cryptography Dispatches

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

• Research group: NTNU Applied Cryptology Lab
• Events:
  • IACR Public Key Cryptography 2025
  • IACR Eurocrypt 2022
  • Crypto vs. Mass Surveillance: The Uneasy Relationship Workshop 2016
  • The International Conference on PASSWORDS 2014
• Courses:
  • TTM4135 – Applied Cryptography and Network Security
  • TTM4138 – Wireless Network Security
  • TTM4205 – Secure Cryptographic Implementations
  • TTM4195 – Blockchain Technologies and Cryptocurrencies
  • IMT4124 – Cryptology
  • IMT4217 – Introduction to Data Privacy
  • TMA4160 – Cryptography
  • TMA4162 – Computational Algebra
  • MA8206 – Advanced Cryptography
  • IIK8100 – Selected Topics in Cryptology
  • IIK8105 – Post-Quantum Cryptography
  • TM8107 – Cryptographic Protocols and Their Applications
• Research School: COINS

Online Courses

• BIU: Winter School on Cryptography
• Boneh: Stanford’s online cryptography course
• Boneh et al.: Zero Knowledge Proofs MOOC
• Chiesa: Probabilistically Checkable and Interactive Proof Systems
• Katz: Cryptography
• Stanford: CS 355 Topics in Cryptography

Podcasts

• Connolly, Ptacek, Adrian: Security. Cryptography. Whatever.
• Harrysson and Rose: Zero Knowledge Podcast

Simons Institute Programs

• Cryptography 10 Years Later
• Obfuscation, Proof Systems, and Secure Computation
• The Quantum Wave in Computing
• Lattices: Algorithms, Complexity, and Cryptography
• Proofs, Consensus, and Decentralizing Society
• Cryptography Summer Program

Standards and Tools

• IRTF Crypto Forum Research Group (CFRG)
• NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography
• Lattice Estimator
• SageMath

Useful Links

• CryptoBib
• CryptoBib Search
• CSPapers
• CSRankings
• Cryptography Stack Exchange
• Cryptography and Security arXiv
• LaTeX symbols
• Security and Privacy Conference Deadlines
• IACR Cryptology Schools