Getting started in crypto

To explore cryptography, you need not be a computer science student but I assume that you are a science student with some basic background in abstract algebra.

Following are few online courses that will help you in understanding crypto.

1. Applied Cryptography, UCCS - Coursera

2. Cryptography, Stanford University

3. Foundations of Cryptography

Following are few textbooks for reference:

1. Cryptography: An Introduction

2. Introduction to Modern Cryptography

3. Graduate Course in applied cryptography