Everything about Encryption software

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Encryption softwareA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Enhance Software-Defined Network Security with IoT for Strengthen the Encryption of Information Access ControlInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Foundations and Practice of SecurityThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Software Implementation of an Attribute-Based Encryption SchemeCited 34 times
5. Go sideways: Disk encryption theoryA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Symmetric-key algorithmA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Software Implementation of an Attribute-Based Encryption Scheme

  Eric Zavattoni, Luis J. Dominguez Perez, Shigeo Mitsunari · 2015 · IEEE Transactions on Computers · 34 citations

• A Software-Optimized Encryption Algorithm

  Phillip Rogaway, Don Coppersmith · 1998 · Journal of Cryptology · 28 citations

• Analysis of Software Countermeasures for Whitebox Encryption

  Subhadeep Banik, Andrey Bogdanov, Takanori Isobe · 2017 · IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology · 24 citations

• Efficient Software Implementation of Ring-LWE Encryption on IoT Processors

  Zhe Liu, Reza Azarderakhsh, Howon Kim · 2020 · IEEE Transactions on Computers · 24 citations

• Combatting Software Piracy by Encryption and Key Management

  Albert, Morse · 1984 · Computer · 15 citations

• ChameleonSoft: Software Behavior Encryption for Moving Target Defense

  Mohamed Azab, Mohamed Eltoweissy · 2012 · Mobile Networks and Applications · 13 citations

• Privacy-Preserving Joint Data and Function Homomorphic Encryption for Cloud Software Services

  Amin Hosseingholizadeh, Farhad Rahmati, Mohammad Ali · 2024 · IEEE Internet of Things Journal · 13 citations

• HOPE: Software Defect Prediction Model Construction Method via Homomorphic Encryption

  Chi Yu, Zixuan Ding, Xiang Chen · 2021 · IEEE Access · 9 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Enhance Software-Defined Network Security with IoT for Strengthen the Encryption of Information Access Control

  Vrince Vimal, R. Muruganantham, R. Prabha · 2022 · Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience · 99 citations

• Chiplever: A Hardware–Software Co-Design Framework Toward Extension of Chiplet System for Fully Homomorphic Encryption

  Yibo Du, Ying Wang, Mengdi Wang · 2026 · IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems · 32 citations

• Hardware–Software Co-Design Framework for Data Encryption in Image Processing Systems for the Internet of Things Environment

  Kusum Lata, Surbhi Chhabra, Sandeep Saini · 2022 · IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine · 17 citations

• A Resource Efficient Software-Hardware Co-Design of Lattice-Based Homomorphic Encryption Scheme on the FPGA

  Bikram Paul, Tarun Kumar Yadav, Balbir Singh · 2023 · IEEE Transactions on Computers · 15 citations

• Hardware-software co-design framework of lightweight CLEFIA cipher for IoT image encryption

  Pulkit Singh, K Abhimanyu Kumar Patro, Rahul Kumar Chaurasiya · 2022 · Sādhanā · 11 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Foundations and Practice of SecurityJoaquin Garcia-Alfaro · 2012
• Information security and cryptologyHelger Lipmaa, Moti Yung · 2006
• Information Security and CryptologyDongdai Lin, Shouhuai Xu · 2005
• Future Data and Security EngineeringTran Khanh Dang, Roland Wagner · 2014
• Electronic VotingRobert Krimmer, Melanie Volkamer · 2017
• Software and Data TechnologiesJosé Cordeiro · 2009
• Multiple Access CommunicationsBoris Bellalta · 2010
• Computer Security BasicsDeborah Russell, Sr. G.T Gangemi · 1991

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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