Re: Cryptanalysis Book

From: David Wagner (daw_at_taverner.cs.berkeley.edu)
Date: 11/26/05


Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 09:41:17 +0000 (UTC)

Jeff Mott wrote:
>As I understand it "Applied Cryptography" is considered the definitive
>text on cryptography, but does not much focus on cryptanalysis. Is
>there another book that is considered the definitive text on
>cryptanalysis?

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be anything out there that fits
that description. One good book is Biham and Shamir's _Cryptanalysis
of the Data Encryption Standard_, though it focuses almost exclusively
on differential cryptanalysis. As I recall, Lars Knudsen's PhD thesis
had a good introduction to a number of other modern kinds of attacks.
Other than that, the best I can suggest is to starting reading the
classic research papers in the literature (they're typically published
at CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT, and FSE).



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