Book recommendations about cryptography?

[cellard]

You said it doesn't necessarily need to be books, well in that case I find very interesting reading papers and forum posts of these credited by satoshi as inspirations. For instance Wei Dai's stuff:

http://www.weidai.com/

Loots of interesting things there, specially the bmoney .txt

Some interesting posts on Szabo's blog too:

https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2017-02-23T23:48:00-08:00&max-results=11&start=1&by-date=false

[shield132]

Seems it's not a new thread but if anyone wants, personally I can't recommend any book because I always learn some things about bitcoin online (not a dev guy so given information here is already enough for me).
Don't want to promote but for such books darknet is really great, but you need deep search to find good book, usually they are sold in cheap prices.

[Vedanet]

OpenSSL Cookbook
https://www.feistyduck.com/books/openssl-cookbook/

[IBXNetwork]

This post is just what I was searching. I have some free time this winter and I finished Mastering Bitcoin. I would really like to have more knowledge in cryptography tho,because many articles I read are out of my range I really struggle to understand them..

Mastering Bitcoin is a very good start imo

[eliteeservices]

This is a must read - http://bloc10.com/splittingbits Splitting Bits - Understanding Bitcoin and the Blockchain.  It is not a technical 'how to' book, and provides many practical examples for actual developmental use cases, and some good history of Blockchain going back to David Chaum.

[Hiru941126]

This topic is really beneficial. And I think there are plenty of books and articles. The thing is when we get into reading we want to find more and more regarding the specifics.

[herrzinfakt]

Doesn't necessarily have to be books,
I'm trying to gather research material about cryptography relating to the blockchain
Especially the cutting edge research like DAG, zk-snarks, alternative consensus algorithms, alternative blockchain protocols

To know about bitcoin and blockchain, I'd recommend this book Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain 2nd Edition
by Andreas M. Antonopoulos. Its 5 star on amazon. Its a little long, but you can skim through finding the main ideas for you research.

About the cryptography part, you may want to look at this one called "Cryptography and Network Security” Seventh Edition by William Stallings. A very good read. Again you can skim through and get the crucial points.

[arumslee]

Understanding Cryptography by Christof Paar, Cryptography and Network Security by William Stallings, Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier are all great books for learning cryptography.