From: “Dana W. Albrecht” <dwa@corsair.com>
To: phorgan@broadvision.com
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From: "Dana W. Albrecht" <dwa@corsair.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 10:14:22 +0800
To: phorgan@broadvision.com
Subject: Re: What's a good math text?
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> I'm not on the list just now, my work won't allow me the time to follow it.
> I'm still just as interested in cryptography though, and would like
> y'all to email me recommendations on good math books that will give me
> the background to understand the papers in the field. I'm sure that will
> include a good numbers theory text. If a beginner at number theory
> would have a hard time understanding it, please recommend background
> texts as well:) What else would I need? My computer science texts
> explain complexity theory well, what would I need in information theory.
> What would I have to read to understand factoring complexity? Are there
> any new texts that cover the recent breakthroughs in factoring?
An excellent introductory cryptography textbook that's oriented toward
number theory is:
A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography, 2nd ed.
by Neal Koblitz
Springer Verlag
If you want a "classic" number theory text, I recommend:
An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers, 5th ed.
by G.H. Hardy and E.M. Wright
Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
If you'd like a good introduction to factoring, try:
Factorisation and Primality Testing
by David Bressoud
Springer Verlag
Of course, it goes without saying that anyone studying cryptography ought
to have a copy of:
Applied Cryptography, 2nd ed.
by Bruce Schneier
John Wiley
Hope that helps.
Dana W. Albrecht
dwa@corsair.com
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