In article <H000006600058bad@MHS> [log in to unmask] writes:
   Bruce writes:
   > An excellent reference on the subject is "Applied Cryptography" by Bruce
   > Schneier. I'm preparing a review of it for the list, but it's one of the
   > best reference books I've ever seen, on _any_ subject. It includes C
source
   > code for the algorithms, and careful cryptographic analysis of each
   > algorithm as well as information on secure procedures. It's one of the few
   > books which caused me to think "I didn't pay enough for this!"
 
   I second everything Bruce said.  In fact, "Applied Cryptography" was one of
   my Book of the Month selections a while back, and I posted a reasonably long
   review of it, which you can probably dredge up out of the list archives if
   you care.  It will also tell you everything you want to know about one-way
   hash / message digest algorithms including MD5
 
   In short, *everybody* needs to read this book (or at least the first third
   of it) even if you don't *think* you care about the subject.
 
   G.
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This brings up two items:
 
 1)  This sounds like demand reading for us all; I want to see Bruce's
     review as well as Scott's; so,
 2)  Where are the list archives for this list?  I know all well-read
     news readers are supposed to know this, but I don't.  Help!
 
Thanks!
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