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- From: caronni@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Germano Caronni)
- Subject: Re: help - recommend a crypto book.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.001117.25270@bernina.ethz.ch>
- Keywords: crypto book code cipher DES etc
- Sender: news@bernina.ethz.ch (USENET News System)
- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
- References: <85743@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 00:11:17 GMT
- Lines: 45
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- In article <85743@ut-emx.uucp> vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Vax) writes:
- >Could someone recommend a book about cryptograhy (specifically computer
- >related) to someone of the following qualifications?
-
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- Contemporary Cryptology - The science of Information Integrity
- (c) 1992 - IEEE Press NY. IEEE Order Number: PC0271-7
- ISBN: 0-87942-277-7
-
- This is no educative book, but contains some good to read
- introductions, and in depth explanations about some topics.
- It's merely a collection of papers with LOTS of pointers to
- other literature which will help you to enlarge your understanding
- Contains:
- Massey: Introduction into Cryptology
- Smid&Branstad: DES - Past and Future
- Rueppel:Stream Ciphers (and rng's)
- Diffie:First 10 Years of Public Key Cryptology
- Nechvatal: Public Key Cryptography
- Oorschot: Comparison of PKC's basedon Integer factorizing & discr. logs.
- --
- Mitchell,Piper&Wild:Digital Signatures
- Simmons:A survey of Information Authentication
- --
- Feigenbaum:Interactive Proof-Systems and 0-Knowledge
- Simmons:Intro to shared Secret and/or Shared Control
- --
- Brickwell&Odlyzko:Cryptanalysis:A survey of recent results
- Moore:Protocol Failures in Cryptosystems
- --
- Guillou,Ugon,Quisquater:The smart cart...
- Simmons:How to insure that data acquired to verify treaty compliance are trustworthy
-
- total 630 pages: ranges from 'understandable' to 'highly mathematical'
-
- But I suppose some lectures first on Information Theory and Number Theory
- and eventually Statistics could help.
-
- Friendly greetings,
- gec
- --
- Instruments register only through things they're designed to register.
- Space still contains infinite unknowns.
-
- Germano Caronni caronni@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch
-