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Author(s): Richard Mollin
Title: RSA and Public-Key Cryptography
Additional book information: Chapman and Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2003, xii + 291, $79.95, ISBN 1-58488-338-3

Author(s): Hans Delfs and Helmut Knebl
Title: Introduction to Cryptography
Additional book information: Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2002, xiv + 310, $49.95, ISBN 3-540-42278-1

Author(s): Douglas Stinson
Title: Cryptography: Theory and Practice
Additional book information: Chapman and Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2002, xxi + 339, $79.95, ISBN 1-58488-206-9

Author(s): Neal Koblitz
Title: Algebraic Aspects of Cryptography
Additional book information: Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1998, ix + 206, $79.95, ISBN 3-540-63446-0

Author(s): Lawrence Washington
Title: Elliptic Curves: Number Theory and Cryptography
Additional book information: Chapman and Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2003, xi + 428, $79.95, ISBN 1-58488-365-0

Author(s): Ian Blake, Gadiel Seroussi and Nigel Smart
Title: Elliptic Curves in Cryptography
Additional book information: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999, xv + 204, $42.00, ISBN 0-521-65374-6

Author(s): Oded Goldreich
Title: Modern Cryptography, Probabilistic Proofs and Pseudorandomness
Additional book information: Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1999, xv + 182, $97.00, ISBN 3-540-64766-X

Author(s): Oded Goldreich
Title: Foundations of Cryptography: Basic Tools
Additional book information: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001, xix + 372, $75.00, ISBN 0-521-79172-3

Author(s): Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen
Title: The Design of Rijndael: AES --- the Advanced Encryption Standard
Additional book information: Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2002, ix + 238, $44.95, ISBN 3-540-42580-2

Author(s): Alfred Menezes, Paul van Oorschot and Scott Vanstone
Title: Handbook of Applied Cryptography
Additional book information: CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1997, xxviii + 780, $99.95, ISBN 0-8493-8523-7


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Additional Information:

Reviewer(s):
Susan Landau
Affiliation: Sun Microsystems
Email: susan.landau@sun.com

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (2004), 357-367.

MSC (2000): Primary 94A60
PII: S 0273-0979(04)01011-0
Posted: February 24, 2004
Copyright of article: Copyright 2004, American Mathematical Society


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