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Re: Recommended coursework for budding cryptologist?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Armbrust)
Thu Dec 11 16:25:32 1997
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 10:07:08 -0700
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: Mark Armbrust <marka@ff.com>
In-Reply-To: <199712101600.LAA08073@jekyll.piermont.com>
>John Brothers writes:
>> My wife ( a math major ) has decided that cryptography as a field of study
>
>In general, you should probably hand your wife a copy of Schneier and
>tell her to start exploring. She'll probably be able to figure out
>pretty quickly what sort of things are important.
I would also recommend "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Menezes, van
Oorschot and Vanstone, CRC Press.
I found it much better at pointing out the math I didn't know :^)
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