On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 11:28:36AM -0500, Damian Gerow wrote: > After following the brief discussion this morning about Blowfish, Twofish, > Serpent, and AES, I've realized that I don't know nearly what I had hoped I > did when it came to encryption. Does anyone have a link (or a document > they can post on the web) that points to the basics of encryption? And I > don't mean like 'Encryption is when you take what you wrote (plaintext) and > enrypt it so that nobody can read it (ciphertext).' I'm looking for > something a little more advanced -- that would explain block sizes, CBC, > EBC, and their relative strengths and weaknesses. you can look at http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/. it is a serious book for free. it is very clear. it contains non basic stuff but you may skip them in the first reading - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
