Sharing some interesting databases or references I've come across throughout my studies, hoping they are useful!
Video trace library from Arizona State University. - A very generous sharing of video traces encoded by MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264 Advanced Video Coding and H.264 Scalable Video Coding standards by the community of ASU.
Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. Van Oorshot, and Scott A. Vanstone.
This is, really, a handbook... comes in handy ;)
Wenbo Mao.
A starter book to be read page by page.
Provable security
Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest and Clifford Stein.
A very good read on optimization algorithms.
Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman and Mike Speciner.
A very relaxing read towards understanding network security
Bruce Schneier.
A comprehensive list of existing security protocols in modern cryptography