Literature

The sources listed here help deepening your knowledge – they are by no means comprehensive.

A number of sources were used during the development of CrypTool.

The online help available within CrypTool exhaustively explains the classic encryption algorithms. Mostly the online help doesn't go deeply into the modern encryption algorithms due to their complexity.

Further information and further sources concerning also the modern cryptographic algorithms can be found within single articles of the CrypTool script and within the "Links" section on the CrypTool web site.

The following lists of references are alphabetically sorted.

Books about cryptography, cryptanalysis and number theory

Articles about cryptography in journals

Books about elliptic curves

As there is little information on elliptic curves in the references provided above, a list of additional works specifically on the subject of elliptic curves is provided below.

Journal articles and white papers about elliptic curves

Standard specifications for elliptic curve cryptography:

Links to the Enigma machine

The Word War II Enigma machine is addressed in an especially large number of references and versions on the Internet.

IT-Security in general

A huge number of books exists here, too. This is only a small selection: