home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!uchinews!machine!chinet!schneier
- From: schneier@chinet.chi.il.us (Bruce Schneier)
- Subject: Re: FAQ/good resource
- Message-ID: <C0q8pL.24F@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- References: <1993Jan11.210957.8578@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:00:55 GMT
- Lines: 11
-
- In article <1993Jan11.210957.8578@linus.mitre.org> hal@gateway.mitre.org
- (Hal Feinstein) writes:
- >
- >A good introductory book on cryptograhy is NIST special publication 800-2
- >called Public-Key Cryptograhy" by James Nechvatal April 1991
- >
- This "special publication" is but a chapter in a much larger and much better
- book: _Contemporary_Cryptology_, edited by Gus Simmons (IEEE Press, 1992).
- The book is worth ten times the price.
-
- Bruce
-