RE: Book on Pre-MATH for cryptography and cryptanalysis. Reply


You don't need calculus or topology, but you do need abstract algebra.
Unfortunately, nearly all algebra texts assume you want to become a
research mathematician, and thus are tougher than needed if all you
want is to understand crypto papers.

Douglas,
I had a look on amazon and it seems like most of the abstract algebra books were around the
1000 page mark. so yeah, maybe there is more that I need in these texts.
What abstract algebra subject's should I home in on?

rol


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