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Jim Gillogly (jimg@mentat.com)
Fri, 14 Aug 1998 09:53:11 -0700
> Firstly there's the ever-favorite (and accessible):
> _Applied Cryptography_ (2nd edition), by Bruce Schneier,
> John Wiley & sons, ISBN 0-471-11709-9, 1995, 784 pages.
>
> and someone recently recommended these three volumes on sci.crypt:
>
> _Handbook of Applied Cryptography_ by Alfred J. Menezes et al., CRC
> Press, ISBN 0-8493-8523-7, 1997, 779 pages.
>
> _A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography_ by Neal Koblitz,
> Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3-540-94293-9, 1994, 233 pages.
>
> _Cryptography: Theory and Practice_ by Douglas R. Stinson, CRC Press,
> ISBN 0-8493-8521-0, 1995, 434 pages.
Since he asked specifically about cryptanalysis, I'd add Kahn's
"The Codebreakers" to this, as well as F. L. Bauer's "Decrypted
Secrets", which includes material that I'd hoped would have been
in Kahn's second edition. For WW2-era cryptanalysis, try Callimahos
& Friedman's "Military Cryptanalytics" series, insofar as it has
been declassified (i.e. vol. 1, vol. 2, and tiny bits of vol. 3),
and Deavours & Kruh's "Machine Cryptography and Modern Cryptanalysis"
or some permutation of those words.
After that introduction you should be ready to try the Zendian Problem,
then start reading proceedings of the Crypto, Eurocrypt, Asiacrypt and
similar conferences to come up to date.
Jim Gillogly
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