The Joy of Cryptography

The pedagogical approach is anchored in formal definitions/proof of security, but in a way that I believe is more accessible than what is "traditional" in crypto. All security definitions are written in a unified and simplified "game-based" style. For an example of what security definitions look like in this style, see the index of security definitions (which will make more sense after reading chapters 2 & 4).
Table of Contents
Review of Concepts & Notation
1 One-Time Pad & Kerckhoffs' Principle
2 The Basics of Provable Security
3 Secret Sharing
4 Basing Cryptography on Intractable Computations
5 Pseudorandom Generators
6 Pseudorandom Functions & Block Ciphers
7 Security Against Chosen Plaintext Attacks
8 Block Cipher Modes of Operation
9 Chosen Ciphertext Attacks
10 Message Authentication Codes
11 Hash Functions
12 Authenticated Encryption & AEAD
13 RSA & Digital Signatures
14 Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement
15 Public-Key Encryption
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