Customer Rating:      Summary: Amazing Comment: I wouldn't really recommend reading this book from cover to cover, but it has some very interesting sections and can be used as an awesome reference guide.
Customer Rating:      Summary: If you buy only one cryptography book... Comment: ...this is the one to buy. A straightforward read, with clear and unambiguous descriptions of crytography concepts, algorithms and implementations. Not exactly a book for beginners, though; it is clearly an intermediate text, with lots of mathematical detail (most of which was WAY over my head, but I kinda-sorta understood some of the simpler math). Schneier also goes to great lengths to insure the accuracy of the book and publishes a detailed errata on his web site.I'm looking forward to the 3rd edition already...
Customer Rating:      Summary: Fabulous! Comment: This book is the definitive source on encryption and cryptanalysis. Bruce Schneier is amazing. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone wanting to know ANYTHING on the subject.
Customer Rating:      Summary: Excellent introductory to crypto!!! Comment: Are you scared reading those CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT, ESORICS... papers? Read St.Schneier's first. It gives you an excellent all-aspect introduction in cryptography. You should be canonized, Bruce...! God bless you...
Customer Rating:      Summary: An excellent introduction to a blooming field Comment: I had some knowledge in cryptogpraphy, but this was my first contact with a book that gives a covering of the field in one volume. I was excited. It was my vacation book and it was a good choice. It will remain on my desk or close to me.
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