From: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 10:30:56 +0800
To: tcmay@got.net
Subject: Re: Cryptanalysis
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From:	IN%"tcmay@got.net"  9-MAR-1996 12:05:04.70

>There are very good reasons to say little about "conventional
>cryptanalysis": it just doesn't matter much with modern ciphers, such as
>public key systems. Modern ciphers don't fall to conventional attacks based
>on word frequency, pattern analysis, etc.

	I realize that this may also be considered an out of date subject,
but what's a good reference for codes as opposed to cyphers (other than
the one reference in the Cyphernomicon which includes "codes" in its title)?
	Thanks,
	-Allen