[Cryptography] Preliminary review of the other Applied Cryptography

[Sandy Harris]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> After battling through Schneier (a prerequisite before posting to this
> list), I am now reading "Handbook of Applied Cryptography", by Menezes,
> Oorschot, and Vanstone.

Both fine books & well worth reading. Arguably some of Schneier's
later books are even better.

However, if your main interest is how to build secure systems, I'd
put Anderson's "Security Engineering" at the top of the list:
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html