[Cryptography] Review: The Codebreaker, by David Kahn
William Allen Simpson
william.allen.simpson at gmail.com
Sun Jul 6 19:32:53 EDT 2014
On 7/4/14 2:52 PM, Richard Outerbridge wrote:
> On 2014-07-03 (184), at 23:46:45, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
>> All in all, it definitely belongs on your shelf, right next to Schneier.
>
> Absolutely. Kahn is THE Classic. Read him before Schneier. Both are great writers.
>
Likewise, read Kahn long before Schneier. Have a first edition, signed
(to me).
Learned about it when a sweetheart told me Kahn was one of her most personally
influential books on her father's shelf.... (He was a Rand physicist.) But
she became a database programmer. A brother became a computer science prof.
I'd also been reading Cryptologia in the university library (this was back in
the stapled pamphlet days.) I was already doing network protocols and device
drivers. Later, Schneier came along and influenced me to write security code.
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