Handbook of Applied Cryptography
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Handbook of Applied Cryptography
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Re: Handbook of Applied Cryptography
#2Previous discussions:
Handbook of Applied Cryptography (2001) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6002694 - July 2013 (19 comments)
Handbook of Applied Cryptography (2001) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662441 - May 2016 (17 comments)
Re: Handbook of Applied Cryptography
#3I love this. In my college library there's a row of books on mathematics,
a single shelf unit on computer science (system admin, SQL, the works),
a shelf on cryptography
most books on RSA
two books on ECC
and ONE single book on essoteric protocols, and it's this one (not this edition)
covers things like blind signing, dining cryptographers, homomorphic encryption, zero knowledge proofs,
all before the whole bitcoin thing got annoying.
bring back cool cryptography
(blind ECC is annoyingly hard to explain)
Re: Handbook of Applied Cryptography
#4Warning: this is more of a reference book.
If you’re looking for a more gentle introduction to all things cryptography check my book https://www.amazon.com/Real-World-Cryptography-David-Wong/dp...
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#5I liked this one:
Re: Handbook of Applied Cryptography
#6> Please read this copyright notice before downloading any of the chapters.
Why would I need to do that if I have no intent to redistribute?
I'm not the one making a copy; the website is.
> CRC Press has generously given us permission to make all chapters available for free download.
Exactly; permission for them to give away copies under terms they have to understand, not me.
Re: Handbook of Applied Cryptography
#7While the fundamentals are always relevant, IIRC this book has been dated even 10 years ago, when Schneier's Cryptography Engineering was already recommended instead if you wanted practical advice.
For a more theoretically backed approach Dan Boneh's book ( https://toc.cryptobook.us/ ) is a very good resource.
Re: Handbook of Applied Cryptography
#8> Please read this copyright notice before downloading any of the chapters. Why would I need to do that if I have no intent to redistribute? I'm not the one making a copy; the website is. > CRC Press has generously given us permission to make all chapters available for free download. Exactly; permission for them to give away copies under terms they have to understand, not me.
Because you might want to redistribute. They ask you to be aware of the copyright status, it's not some evil threat or misdirection or so. Feel free not to read it if you already know about your rights and obligations under copyright law.
Re: Handbook of Applied Cryptography
#9While the fundamentals are always relevant, IIRC this book has been dated even 10 years ago, when Schneier's Cryptography Engineering was already recommended instead if you wanted practical advice. For a more theoretically backed approach Dan Boneh's book ( https://toc.cryptobook.us/ ) is a very good resource.
I wonder if Cryptography Engineering, while updated, is a good book as Applied Cryptography, that really was a pretty inspired one.
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#10I read it 20+y ago and it felt like a good intro back then.