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From: smith@umn-cs.UUCP (Richard Smith)
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: Cryptography: A Primer - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 7-Dec-83 21:02:15 EST
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umn-cs!smith    Dec  7 14:09:00 1983

   I recently picked up a book "Cryptography: A Primer" by Alan Korkheim
of IBM.  It presented some of the most satisfying descriptions of well
known cryptosystems that I've ever seen.  He covers just about every
cipher I'd ever heard of: Caesar, Playfair, Vigenere, rotors (Enigma,
Purple, etc), DES, and public key systems.  He talks about how the codes
are generated, their mathematical properties, and schemes for breaking
them.  This book is not for the mathematically faint-hearted, though.  If
you have an engineer's dose of college math or more, you'll be able to
muddle through it.

Rick.
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