Diego F. Aranha, Paulo S. L. M. Barreto, Geovandro C. C. F. Pereira, Jefferson Ricardini. "A note on high-security general-purpose elliptic curves." 2013. http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/647
I wish I knew more about cryptography, but sadly the Coursera MOOC is too slow. I guess I'll take the Udacity MOOC or scavenge Library Genesis until I find something mildly satisfying.
>>4 Study group theory first. I don't know what textbook to recommend because I had an awesome prof and didn't even need to use the textbook (and instead used google a few times).