Re: (A little OT) Introduction to cryptography
Hi, I have been studying crypto systems for awhile now and it seems that the
best resource on the subject bar none is APPLIED CRYPTOGRAPHY written by
Bruce Schneier 2nd Edition has copious code examples and execellent easy to
understand explaination of practically all practical crypto algorithms out
there. You may have heard of one of the authors algorithms - blowfish...
Failing that try looking at the gnu privacy guard. It is an awesome public
key algorithm.
Regards,
Scott.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philippe Seidel" <pagin@gmx.de>
To: <debian-security@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 10:50 PM
Subject: (A little OT) Introduction to cryptography
> Hi all,
>
> As you are the only security-related list I'm subscribed to and
> cryptography has something to do with security, I'm directing this
> question to this list.
>
> I want to inform myself about the internal workings of some simple
> cryptographic algorithm. Now, there's the problem that when I look on
> the internet I either get introductions to some cryptosystems
> (PGP/X.509) or mathematic describtions that go beyond my mathematic
> knowledge (especially as I'm German and know these mathematical terms
> only in German). So I wanted to ask if anyone of you knows an
> easy-to-understand and yet complete explanation of a cryptographic
> algorithm.
>
> I already thought of looking into the libssl-sources, but I don't think
> I will understand them either without knowing about the algorithms.
>
> Thanks for your help in advance,
> Philippe
>
>
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