References
Sharing some interesting databases or references I've come across throughout my studies, hoping they are useful!
Video trace library from Arizona State University. - A very generous sharing of video traces encoded by MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264 Advanced Video Coding and H.264 Scalable Video Coding standards by the community of ASU.
Handbook of Applied Cryptography
Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. Van Oorshot, and Scott A. Vanstone.
This is, really, a handbook... comes in handy ;)
Modern Cryptography
Wenbo Mao.
A starter book to be read page by page.
Provable security
Introduction of Algorithms
Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest and Clifford Stein.
A very good read on optimization algorithms.
Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World, Second Edition
Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman and Mike Speciner.
A very relaxing read towards understanding network security
Applied Cryptography
Bruce Schneier.
A comprehensive list of existing security protocols in modern cryptography