I've found several books to be more than helpful and incredibly interesting regarding crypology and the history of: Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schenier - a classic, and must read The Code Book by Simon Singh(sp?) - great info for an overview of the history of crypto, and explanations of some algorithms The Codebreakers by David Kahn - the original book on the history of crypto(traditional crypto), i'm about 200 pages into it and it's awesome, it explains ciphers very well Crypto by Stephen Levy - the history of modern crypto, basically the last 30 years, more in depth than the code book on recent crypto, very little technical info, but still good I forget where i got this link, but it was from a friend, it has a lot of crypto examples, tutorials, and especiall source code: http://crypto.radiusnet.net/archive/ Hope that helps, if nothing else the history books will give you a better understanding of crypto through it's evolution over the centuries. Dave On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 09:28, 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. > > And (what I'd really like to see) does anyone know of a complete rundown of > all the ciphers that are available in the kernel? The help was just enough > to whet my appetite -- and I'm really curious to see why AES is ... not > well liked. > > - > Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/ > - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
