An Internet Bearer Bibliography

Ulf Möller ulf at fitug.de
Thu Dec 7 17:16:43 PST 2000


On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 05:34:53PM -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:

> Probably I'd start out with Schneier's Applied Cryptography, making a
> beeline for the digital cash section. I've heard that the pros now use
> the CRC handbook of crypto, but this is the one I read first, when it
> came out in 1994 or so. It's the closest thing cypherpunks have to a Boy
> Scout Handbook.

I would recommend the HAC as a reference and something else as an
introduction (my favorite is "Decrypted Secrets" by F.L. Bauer, but
there are lots of good books). Schneier is a bit of both, but not
particularly good at either. Peter Wayner wrote a book about digital
cash a couple of years ago.
 
> For politics, I'd go read David Freidman, son of Milton, well-known
> law-and-economic professor and anarcho-capitalist. "The Machinery of
> Freedom" is a good start, because his thesis there is that we really
> don't need the nation-state for much. It's a pre-crypto book,
> 1970-something, and now that we think we know how to get there from here,

Friedman's "Hidden Order" is interesting. It includes many of the
ideas from the Machinery of Freedom in a newer form, and I suppose it
is a pretty good start for learning about economics.

On the fiction side, there is Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon".
E-cash, data havens and all that...





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