19.6.1. the importance of libraries
- "Use a library. That's a place with lots of paper
periodicals and paper books. Library materials not online,
mostly, but it is still where most of the world's encoded
knowledge is stored. If you don't like paper, tough.
That's the way the world is right now." [Eric Hughes, 1994-
04-07]
19.6.2. Books
- Bamford, James, "The Puzzle Palace," 1982. The seminal
reference on the NSA.
- N. Koblitz, "A course in number theory and cryptography",
QA3.G7NO.114. Very technical, with an emphasis on elliptic
functions.
+ D. Welsh, "Codes and Cryptography", Oxford Science
Publications, 1988, Eric Hughes especially
recommends this.
- Z103.W461988
- D.E. Denning, "Cryptography and Data Security", 1982,
Addison-Wesley, 1982, QA76.9.A25D46. A classic, if a bit
dated, introduction by the woman who later became the chief
supporter of Clipper.
+ G. Brassard, "Modern Cryptology: a tutorial", Lecture Notes
in Computer
- Science 325, Springer 1988, QA76.L4V.325 A slim little
book that's a gem. Sections by David Chaum.
- Vinge, V., "True Names," 1981. A novel about digital
pseudonyms and cyberspace.
- Card, Orson Scott, "Ender's Game," 1985-6. Novel about kids
who adopt digital pseudonyms for political debate.
- G.J. Simmons,"Contemporary Cryptology", IEEE Press, 1992,
QA76.9.A25C6678. A collection of articles by well-known
experts. Surprisingly, no discussion of digital money. Gus
Simmons designed "Permissive Action Links" for nukes, at
Sandia.
19.6.3. sci.crypt
- archived at ripem.msu.edu and rpub.cl.msu.edu
-
+ The cryptography anon ftp archive at
wimsey.bc.ca:/pub/crypto
- has been moved to ftp.wimsey.bc.ca
19.6.4. cryptography-faq
- in about 10 parts, put out by Crypt Cabal (several
Cypherpunks on it)
- rtfm.mit.edu, in /pub/usenet/news.answers/cryptography-
faq/part[xx]
+ posted every 21 days to sci.crypt, talk.politics.crypto,
- sci.answers, news.answers
19.6.5. RSA FAQ
- Paul Fahn, RSA Laboratories
- anonymous FTP to rsa.com:/pub/faq
- rtfm.mit.edu, /pub/usenet/news.answers/cryptography-faq/rsa
19.6.6. Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference
- next Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference will be
March 1995, San Francisco
19.6.7. Various computer security papers, publications, and programs
can be found at cert.org.
- anonymous ftp to it and look in /pub. /pub/info even has
the NSA "Orange Book." (Not a secret, obviously. Anyone can
get on the NSA/NCSC's mailing list and get a huge pile of
documents sent to them, with new ones arriving every
several weeks.)
- or try ftp.win.tue.nl /pub/security
19.6.8. Clipper information by Internet
- ftp.cpsr.org
- ftp.eff.org
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