17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
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I just purchased Bruce Schneier's _Applied Cryptography_ (John Wiley & Sons, 1994; ISBN # 0-471-59756-2; $49.95). Worth every cent I paid for it. It covers every single possible aspect of computer information security -- [...]
Saw it on a bookshelf here, yesterday, for AUS$86.00. Next to it was anoher book on Cryptography, for $97.95 by "Rhee", I didn't have pen/paper to get the details down, but it was hardback and seemed to be a good compliement to "Applied Cryptography" as it delt (almost purely from a quick browse) with the theroies and mathematics of it, rather than giving C source code for bits and pieces. Are either of these worth their weight in gold ? (so to speak)