Crypto books

[Karl Lui Barrus <klbarrus@owlnet.rice.edu>]

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> Next to it was anoher book on Cryptography, for $97.95 by "Rhee", I
> didn't have pen/paper to get the details down, but it was hardback and
> seemed to be a good compliement to "Applied Cryptography" as it delt
> (almost purely from a quick browse) with the theroies and mathematics
> of it, rather than giving C source code for bits and pieces.

I have this book - "Cryptography and Secure Communications" by Man
Young Rhee.  It covers basic cryptography (number theory, DES, block
ciphers, stream ciphers, public key systems) and also communications
(BCH codes, Reed-Solomon Codes, Error control for cryptosystems).

Late chapters cover more crypto protocols (authentication, digital
signatures, ZKIP, smart cards, key management).

The book is pretty good, but Schneier's book covers far more
cryptographic protocols.  This one seems to be a fusion of
cryptography and error control coding.  But then, the author's
previous book was "Error Control Coding Theory."

;-)

Karl Barrus
klbarrus@owlnet.rice.edu

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