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Handbook of Applied Cryptography

Posted by michael on from the complete-from-adelman-to-zimmerman dept.

cconnell writes "The Handbook of Applied Cryptography is now available free (for personal use) on the Internet. This is a $100 book. Note also the companion C source code for most of the crypto algorithms, written by James Pate Williams. There is some very cool code here!"

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  1. Re:It's been free by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If you are implementing cryptography algorithms I'm sure it is a must read, but for somebody, like me, who is more interested in applications of cryptography, I'd recommend skipping.

    Chapter 14 is the best thing I have seen (modulo a few papers printed in things like the IBM Systems Journal, which can be impossible to find sometimes), for explaining how to do fast arithmetic for things like RSA. And yup, it's pretty nasty at points. There are still several algorithms listed in Chapter 14 in particular that I don't understand, this is after 3 or 4 reads at least.

    It always cracked me up that Schnier's Applied Cryptography claimed to help people write strong crypto and yet never gave even the slightest mention to how to actually implement RSA. In particular because all of his 'real working code' examples just used ints. Great if you're doing RSA with 32 bit keys, but...