Oskar Sandberg wrote: > > AC is extremely light on Math. One of the reasons it's popular, besides > that it is so comprehensive, is that it is one of the only books on the > subject that requires very little Math knowledge. > > In fact, I don't think there is a single proof in the whole book, so there > is actually no math in it.
Aha! What I was casually browsing was not Bruce Schneier's "Applied Cryptography" (http://www.counterpane.com/applied.html) but the voluminous tome "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" (http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/), by Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot and Scott A. Vanstone. Of course, cryptography is still a heavy mathematical field. But Schneier's book, from what the info site says, seems like a great meal for my new $250 Xerox 50 page auto document feeder combination scanner/printer/fax/toaster. And he even makes references to Orwell in the preface! Awesome. -- Mark Roberts mroberts100 at mediaone.net _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
