Re: cryptanalysis for beginners..

John Kelsey (kelsey@plnet.net)
Wed, 24 Jun 1998 15:19:33 -0500

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> From: Lewis McCarthy <lmccarth@cs.umass.edu>
> To: CodherPlunks@toad.com
> Subject: Re: cryptanalysis for beginners..
> Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 2:10 AM
 
> In addition to the references already mentioned:
>
> Biham and Shamir published a book on their _Differential
Cryptanalysis of the Data
> Encryption Standard_,
> although I'm not sure whether it's appropriate for "beginners". I
haven't had a
> look at it.

It's appropriate for beginners to differential cryptanalysis, but it
wouldn't be a great
introduction to modern cryptanalysis in general. It would be nice to
see such a book, though I haven't seen it yet.

> -Lewis
> http://www.cs.umass.edu/~lmccarth
 
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