crypto reading list

Following the blockchain craze ,a friend asked me for a reading list. Below is what I know but haven't read completely (except the last one) . They should be enough to get you to a good place.
 a) The Code Book by Simon Singh
 b) Handbook of Applied Cryptography : http://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/hac/
 c) Security Engineering by Ross Anderson
 d) Designing an authentication system in four acts [ Article] http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/dialogue.html
 e) Alice & Bob Dinner after speech : https://urbigenous.net/library/alicebob.html Last one is hilarious

16/9/18
adding one more
f) Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier

5/2/19
adding two more
g) Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson- this is a large large blog article masquerading as three intertwined stories involving ww2, a modern tech startup involving crypto , a math wizard .... I first read it in 2004, and it was water in the parched ideological desert of Mumbai. For someone who had read Levy's Hackers and ESR's Revenge of the Nerds , it was a sign . However, faith loosened in the onslaught of the mundane, and I am left writing about it.
h) Stephen Levy's Crypto - this is recommended. I will read it.


I have also some python code encrypting and decrypting stuff. An excerpt of the Prisoner of Zenda lent itself to the process. The basic version was completed in one evening ( an adult evening is interspersed with chores, dinner, walking, babysitting, parent-sitting, neighbour-ing, spouse-whispering, lot of nodding while listening ... etc ). The java version took much longer and doesn't do so much.

here : https://github.com/goingkilo/python_practice.git