Learning about Cryptography
I am interested in learning more about cryptography. Where could I obtain some good, recent books on cryptography for the beginner. -- "... In Germany they first came for the Communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me-and by that time no one was left to speak up..." Pastor Martin Niemoller ************************************************ * * * Matthew Murphy ------------ eggplant@inlink.com * * * ************************************************
eggplant@inlink.com (eggplant) writes:
I am interested in learning more about cryptography. Where could I obtain some good, recent books on cryptography for the beginner.
A number of people on this list will shout in unison, Schneier!, and they'll probably be wrong. For an absolute beginnger I'd suggest Abraham Sinkov, Elementary Cryptanalysis, MAA: New mathematical library, ISBN 0-888385-622-0, and Lawrence Dwight Smith, Cryptography, Dover, ISBN 0-486-20247-x. If you want to learn more about the history of the field, try to get the hardcover (unabridged) edition of David Kahn's _Codebreakers_. (It might be a worthwhile project on run Kahn's book through an OCR and to place it on Internet. :-) If you want to understand the communication theory that underlies modern cryptography, check out Dominic Welsh, Codes and Cryptography, Oxford, ISBN 0-19-853287-3. If you're teaching an undergraduate C course and are looking for examples of badly written C code, then get Schneier's book. :-) --- Dr. Dimitri Vulis Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps
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