Re: student wanting to learn about cryptography...

From: Joe Peschel (jpeschel_at_no.spam.org)
Date: 07/29/03 

Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 21:11:58 -0000

ncs8@email.byu.edu (Alex Truman) wrote in
news:65ed954e.0307290934.1ad9b4f5@posting.google.com:

> Hi, I'm a college student interested in learning cryptography. How
> would you reccommend I begin? Is there a book out there you'd
> reccommend or something? I know what a prime number is and I know a
> few substitution & transposition coding schemes, but that's as far as
> my knowledge goes. I pretty much need to start at the very beginning.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Alex Truman
>

You can get an armful of good books on CD from from Dr. Dobb's Journal on-
line:

http://store.yahoo.com/ddjcdroms/escrypsecboo.html

The CD includes, among other titles, "Cryptography: Theory and Practice,"
by Stinson, "Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code
in C, Second Edition," by Schneier, "Military Cryptanalysis, Volume I-IV,"
by Friedman, and "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Menezes, et.al. It's
only 75 bucks or so.

J

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