[Cryptography] Review: The Codebreaker, by David Kahn

[William Allen Simpson]

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.