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There are many active threads in cryptography research. Many of them are where crypto meets a particular branch of mathematics (number theory, algebraic geometry, complexity theory, combinatorics, graph theory, and information theory). The empirical end of the business is concerned with designing primitives for encryption, signature and composite operations, and which perform reasonably well on available platforms. The two meet in the study of subjects ranging from cryptanalysis, to the search for primitives that combine provable security properties with decent performance.

The best way to get a flavor of what's going on at the theoretical end of things is to read the last few years’ proceedings of research conferences such as Crypto, Eurocrypt and Asiacrypt; work on cipher design appears at Fast Software Encryption; attacks on implementations often appear at CHES; while attacks on how crypto gets used in systems can be found in the systems security conferences such as IEEE Security and Privacy, CCS and Usenix.