entry level cryptography books

1999-06-01 Thread MIKE SHAW
Can anyone recommend some entry level cryptography books? I'm looking for something that will just start to get into the nitty-gritty of the math involved. Thanks -Mike [Canonical answers: Schneier, "Applied Cryptography" Menezes Oorschot, "Handbook of Applied Cryptograp

Re: entry level cryptography books

1999-06-01 Thread Markus Kuhn
"MIKE SHAW" wrote on 1999-06-01 15:43 UTC: Can anyone recommend some entry level cryptography books? I'm looking for something that will just start to get into the nitty-gritty of the math involved. Those who are more comfortable with reading German than Mathematics and who a

Re: entry level cryptography books

1999-06-01 Thread Suchitra Raman
I can recommend the following book: "Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World," by Kaufman, Perlman, and Speciner, especially as an introductory book, even though it's technically deep as well. Suchi

Re: entry level cryptography books

1999-06-01 Thread M Taylor
At 10:43 AM 01/06/1999 -0500, MIKE SHAW wrote: Can anyone recommend some entry level cryptography books? I'm looking for something that will just start to get into the nitty-gritty of the math involved. Schneier, "Applied Cryptography" Menezes Oorschot, "Handbook of Appli

Re: entry level cryptography books

1999-06-01 Thread John R Levine
Alfred Beutelspacher: Kryptologie. Vieweg, 1996, ISBN 3-528-48990-1, 34.00 DEM, 179 p. I don't know unfortunately, whether someone has translated it already into English. I see a 1994 translation, which I presume is of an earlier edition: Cryptology, Paperback, 176 Pages, Mathematical