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Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Looking for introductions
Message-ID: <235@brandx.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sat, 16-May-87 02:50:51 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 16 02:50:51 1987
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References: <676@omepd>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Summary: this is the best one I know of

In article <676@omepd>, perry@inteloa.intel.com (Perry The Cynic) writes:
> Is there something like "Cryptography For Mathematicians"?

Well, actually if one is sufficently trained in math, the research
conferences carried by the main math publishers are reasonable places
to start since the open literature on these topics hasn't been
developing very fast until the last decade or so.

On the other hand, if you would rather rely on someone other than the 
original authors to present the basic concepts, then you should
consider:
           Cryptography: A Primer
           Alan G. Konheim
           Wiley, 1981
This book spun out of a course in cryptographic methods offered by the
author at the Courant Institute in Spring 1978 as well as the authors
investigations in this area for IBM Research.  The book is roughly 400
pages long.  The first 225 inivestigate classical attacks on traditional 
systems ending with the Rotor systems of WWII.  The remainder of the
book includes 50 pages of discussion of DES, 50 pages on public key
systems, and variety of other odds and ends.  More recently, there is:
           Primality and Cryptography
           Evangelos Kranakis
           Wiley, 1986
This latter claims to be specifically targetted to mathematicians and
computer scientists (clearly of the more theoretical bent).  It has an
interesting bibliography as well.  However, it doesn't have the
information on the more traditional systems that the previous one does
(so they complement each other nicely).

Enjoy.

--------------------- BOB (webber@aramis.rutgers.edu)