Re: Some additional info about "Which book for a newbie to cryptography?"
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Some additional info about "Which book for a newbie to cryptography?"
Hi, it's me again. first, thank you for all the answers. second, im sorry for the lack of details, I should have added some info, which is: 1. I'm a 2nd year student of BA in Computer Science, I finished 5 courses, 3 in Programming (Intoduction A to Computer Science, Introduction B to Computer Science, and Software Development in UNIX [in all of them we were writing codes in C] ) and 2 courses in math (Discrete Math 1 and Discrete Math 2). so basically that is my mathematical knowledge. also now im about to start the courses Differential and Integral math, and Linear math. 2. I went to the online Library Catalog and searched for the keyword "Cryptography", and these were the results: ~~ - Cryptography : theory and practice: 2nd ed. / Douglas R. Stinson - Defending your digital assets against hackers, crackers, spies and thieves / Randall K. Nichols, Daniel J. Ryan, Julie J. C. H. Ryan - Cryptography and network security : principles and practice / William Stallings - Handbook of applied cryptography / Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot, Scott A. Vanstone - Practical cryptography for data internetworks / William Stallings - Disappearing cryptography : being and nothingness on the Net / Peter Wayner - Protect your privacy : the PGP user's guide / William Stallings - Cryptography : theory and practice: 1st ed. / Douglas R. Stinson ~~ As you can see, no Schneier here. That's it, I think that's all what I wanted to add. So now what book do you recommend? Thanks alot in advance, Foo-o-Matic - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Which book for a newbie to cryptography?
Hi, first im new to this list and to cryptography. :) I've read the first lesson from this 24 crypto lessons: http://www.und.nodak.edu/org/crypto/crypto/lanaki.crypt.class/lessons/ and found it really interesting. I want to start learning cryptography from a book, and I have access to these 3 books from the library in the college near me: - Handbook of applied cryptography / Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot, Scott A. Vanstone / 1996 - Cryptography : theory and practice 2nd ed. / Douglas R. Stinson / 2002 What I want to know is which one is recommended for someone which is new to cryptography? Thanks in advance, Foo-o-Matic - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
