Some additional info about "Which book for a newbie to cryptography?"

[Foo-o-Matic]

Ok, I have read both yours and Sandy Harris's replies, and looked
again at my previous message, and the opinions are kinda ambiguous.
I think I will go to the library and pick one of them.
anyway, I don't feel I need a book that gets very or too deep, because
I really don't have much time for that. I just need a good book which
will teach me the main and important things, and won't be too much
mathy (altho I passes the Discrete Math 1 and 2 courses, I don't
really like it, maybe except combinatorics and that theory with P Q's,
and T(), F()'s (I don't know its name in english, it isn't my native
language).
well thanks for the help so far, you have all been very helpful.


On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:29:27 +0100, M Taylor <mctylr at privacy.nb.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 01:19:18PM +0200, Foo-o-Matic wrote:
> > 1. I'm a 2nd year student of BA in Computer Science, I finished 5
> >
> > - Cryptography : theory and practice: 2nd ed. / Douglas R. Stinson
> > - Handbook of applied cryptography / Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van
> > Oorschot, Scott A. Vanstone
>  
> The first is a textbook aimed at senior undergrad students or first
> year graduate students, and one of the more frequently used textbooks
> at university. Either it or A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography
> by Neil Koblitz are good places to start.
> 
> The Handbook of Applied Cryptography is a very useful reference,
> although since it predates AES it does show its age a bit. Still,
> it is IMHO better than Schneier's Applied Cryptography for going into
> details.
> 
> For an historic overview and practical examples of "unbreakable
> encryption" failing look for either The Code Book by Simon Singh
> and/or The Codebreakers by David Kahn (ISBN 0684831309). I really
> recommend you spend some time reading at least one of these.
> 
> > As you can see, no Schneier here.
> 
> Applied Cryptography is overrated as a "bible" IMHO, though when combined
> with Practial Cryptography the misleading dictum of "sprinkling a little
> bit of crypto over things will make it secure" is tempered.
> 
> Read <http://www.counterpane.com/whycrypto.html>,
>  <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/wcf.html>, and
>  <http://www.counterpane.com/pitfalls.html>.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
>

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