Re: Good Starting Book

Thomas Carter <T.Carter@nanobots.com> wrote in
news:pan.2005.09.13.14.52.54.260140@nanobots.com:

> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:54:04 -0700, tomstdenis wrote:
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>> lotusbud wrote:
>>> Java Cryptography by Jonathan B. Knudsen
>>
>> How is that a good book to learn crypto?
>
> The same can be said about the Handbook of Applied Cryptography - an
> excellent text for implementors, but there are better textbooks for
> learning about cryptography: somebody getting into cryptography would be
> better of starting with Buchmann's or Mollin's introductory
> texts, perhaps moving on to Stinson's and Smart's afterwards. The HAC is
> not such a good text for beginners, especially if they are not all that
> interested in implementation issues.
>
>
>

I've taken some number theory and advanced math classes (got me started
looking into this stuff). What level is the Handbook of Applied
Cryptography on? If you have a firm grasp on basic number theory can you
follow it or should you go further studying the mathematics?
Received on Thu Sep 29 21:54:40 2005