Re: Crypto best book

["David E. Smith" <dave@bureau42.ml.org>]

> > >           What is the best book about cryptography ?
> >
> > Although "best" is certainly subjective, Nine out of Ten Cypherpunks (TM)
> > recommend Bruce Schneier's "Applied Cryptography."
> >
> > http://www.counterpane.com/applied.html
> 
> Bruce did a lousy job on this book.
> 
> If his is the first or the only book you read on the subject of
> cryptography, your knowledge base will be seriously deficient.

(shrug)

I'm certainly no crypto expert, what with Bruce's book being among the very
few texts I've read (that and a couple of grad-level crypto textbooks that
ended up in the University library because we don't have a grad program in
the computer science department).

Recommendations, then?

dave