[3042] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Reading List
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Del Torto)
Wed Jul 22 16:09:07 1998
In-Reply-To: <199807210201.WAA15410@jekyll.piermont.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 20:13:34 -0700
To: Jon Callas <jon@callas.org>
From: Dave Del Torto <ddt@lsd.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
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At 7:01 pm -0700 980720, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>Jon Callas writes:
>> What books and articles would you recommend someone to look at to learn
>> about crypto, security, and privacy? I'm looking for suggestions, simple,
>> intermediate, and advanced.
[elided]
>2) Schneier's "Applied Cryptography". This is the best introduction to
>the field of modern (i.e. post-DES, post-public key) cryptography in
>existance.
Agreed -- and the (other) "Applied Cryptography" book by Paul van O (et
alia) is also essential to have in addition to Schneier's, IMHO.
I'd like to add yet another excellent book... Aegean Park Press
(714.586.8811, Irvine CA), which publishes a large number of books on the
topic (any of which are recommended), has a book entitled "Six Lectures
Concerning Cryptography and Cryptanalysis" by William Friedman.
Friedman's book covers roughly the same epoch as Kahn's original
"Codebreakers" (i.e. from Semiramis' Egypt to the end of WWII). It describes
itself thusly: "...an edited and expanded version of a now unclassified
document, SRH-4, which can be found in the National Archives, Washington DC.
These lectures were serialized in the [NSA]'s Technical journal from 1959 to
1961."
Needless to say, Friedman was a great crypto-historian and raconteur and the
book is full of interesting information for all levels of readers, along
with many screened images of his slides. He explains many social and
technical facets of military cryptology, in a user-friendly way, for an NSA
audience.
It's #67 in their series, and the ISBN is: 0-89412-246-0. I got my copy at
'Books With a Past' (410.442.3740, just north of TIS in Glenwood, MD).
dave
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