17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
5:17 p.m.
What is the best book about cryptography ?
Although "best" is certainly subjective, Nine out of Ten Cypherpunks (TM) recommend Bruce Schneier's "Applied Cryptography."
Bruce did a lousy job on this book.
If his is the first or the only book you read on the subject of cryptography, your knowledge base will be seriously deficient.
(shrug) I'm certainly no crypto expert, what with Bruce's book being among the very few texts I've read (that and a couple of grad-level crypto textbooks that ended up in the University library because we don't have a grad program in the computer science department). Recommendations, then? dave