Cryptology Sources

[kenny.kor]

I'm new to the subject and I was wondering if anyone knew a good book or site to give a good introduction to the topic. Preferably a site as I'm going overseas and won't have access to English books.

I already searched through this site's forums and articles and didn't find much so anything would be helpful.

[laserlight]

I found Mao Wenbo's Modern Cryptography: Theory and Practice to be good, but note that I am not an expert on the subject (in fact, I am still in university and am currently beginning an introductory level module on the topic).

[kenny.kor]

I'm in Uni too, just on scholarship going abroad.

Just a questions about that book, I was reading parts of it in a books store and it had a lot of the math proofs using "magic" in the introduction, do they explain these better later?

Thanks for the reference and opinion.

After typing "Cryptography Introduction" on google, I found some pretty valid sources. I should have done that first.

[TheCPUWizard]

Just an interesting observation "Cryptography" has been in use since the 17th Century (1658), but "Cryptology", has only been recognized as a term since 1935...The latter being defined as

the scientific study of cryptography and cryptanalysis