Crypto means cryptography
The most important cryptography papers spanning the past, present, and future of cryptosystems & cryptology.
On the (Im)possibility of Obfuscating Programs
Boaz Barak, Oded Goldreich, Rusell Impagliazzo, Steven Rudich, Amit Sahai, Salil Vadhan, & Ke Yang
The Knowledge Complexity of Interactive Proof-Systems
Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali, & Charles Rackoffero
Minimal Key Lengths for Symmetric Ciphers to Provide Adequate Commercial Security
Matt Blaze, Whiteld Diffie, Ronald L. Rivest, Bruce Schneier, Tsutomu Shimomura, Eric Thompson, & Michael Wiener
CryptDB: Protecting Confidentiality with Encrypted Query Processing
Raluca Ada Popa, Catherine M. S. Redfield, Nickolai Zeldovich, & Hari Balakrishnan
Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization and Discrete Logarithms on a Quantum Computer
Peter Shor