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The Code Book
Simon Singh. Traces the development of codes and code-breaking from military espionage in ancient Greece to modern computer ciphers.
Handbook of Applied Cryptography
The online version of the 1996 CRC book by Menezes, van Oorschot and Vanstone.
Decrypted Secrets
Friedrich L. Bauer. Subtitled "Methods and Maxims of Cryptology". Covers both cryptography and cryptanalysis.
The Interactive Cryptography Tutorial
Online tutorial with useful info and links.
Foundations of Cryptography
Oded Goldreich. Focuses on the basic mathematical tools needed for cryptographic design: computational difficulty (one-way functions), pseudorandomness and zero-knowledge proofs.
Contemporary Cryptology
Gustavus J. Simmons. Subtitled "The Science of Information Integrity". Has emphasis on the cryptographic elements of the subject.
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.
Primality and Cryptography
Evangelos Kranakis. A comprehensive account of recent algorithms developed in computational number theory and primality testing.
RSA Security's Official Guide to Cryptography
Burnett and Paine. Explains the differences between symmetric-key and public-key cryptography, how PKI and X.509 affect security and how the RSA algorithm works within protocols.
The Twofish Encryption Algorithm
Schneier, et al. Covers design, performance, instructions and source code in C.
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