Books written by Adi Shamir.

Turing Award winner of 2002 together with Ron Rivest and Leonard M. Adleman for their ingenious contribution for making public-key cryptography useful in practice.

Differential Cryptanalysis of the Data Encryption Standard

This book presents the first successful attack which can break the full 16 round DES faster than via exhaustive search. It describes in full detail, the novel technique of Differential Cryptanalysis, and demonstrates its applicability to a wide variety of cryptosystems and hash functions.