Cryptanalysis

[E. ALLEN SMITH]

From:	IN%"tcmay at got.net"  9-MAR-1996 12:05:04.70

>There are very good reasons to say little about "conventional
>cryptanalysis": it just doesn't matter much with modern ciphers, such as
>public key systems. Modern ciphers don't fall to conventional attacks based
>on word frequency, pattern analysis, etc.

	I realize that this may also be considered an out of date subject,
but what's a good reference for codes as opposed to cyphers (other than
the one reference in the Cyphernomicon which includes "codes" in its title)?
	Thanks,
	-Allen