At 1:08 PM 1/15/96, s1018954@aix2.uottawa.ca wrote:
On Sun, 14 Jan 1996, James M. Cobb wrote:
James Bamford The Puzzle Palace (with a new Afterword) Penguin Books 1983
Schneier's new bibliography mentions a second edition of the book published in 1995. Is this really a substantively new edition with more material or is it just being repackaged with a new Afterword? I'm just wondering whether it is worth buying to someone who has the original.
The new edition is supposed to be a substantial rewrite, updating the book to include a lot of the recent stuff on the NSA. Don't quote me, but I think Bamford has a co-author, though I've forgotten who it is. I paid the princely sum of $16.95 in 1982--expensive for a book back then--for "The Puzzle Palace," and read it cover-to-cover (well, I guess I skimmed the footnotes). Even before I got into crypto in a big way, I knew this stuff was important to me. I certainly plan to buy the Second Edition. --Tim May We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 - 1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."