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Recommended for this list:

1. https://archiv.infsec.ethz.ch/education/fs08/secsem/bleichen... - This is necessary to scare newbies away from implementing textbook RSA

2. https://www.iacr.org/archive/eurocrypt2002/23320530/cbc02_e0... - Vaudenay's attack on CBC mode is essential to practitioners

3. https://mega-awry.io/pdf/mega-malleable-encryption-goes-awry... - A real world attack on Mega's encryption

Unfortunately, most interesting cryptanalysis results are easier to find as blog posts than academic papers.

For example: the Frozen Heart vulnerability in zero-knowledge proof systems that rely on the weak Fiat-Shamir transform.

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2022/04/13/part-1-coordinated-d...

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2022/04/15/the-frozen-heart-vul...

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2022/04/18/the-frozen-heart-vul...

These blog posts are great, but they aren't academic papers, so they may not qualify for your list.



Thank you! We'll create some nice cover illustrations and add these to the list




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