
This book covers everything you need to know to write professional-level cryptographic code. This expanded, improved second edition includes about 100 pages of additional material as well as numerous improvements to the original text. The chapter about random number generation...

This book covers all that is needed to write professional level cryptographic code. An expanded and improved version of the very well received first edition it includes approximately 100 pages of new material as well as numerous improvements in the original text.


CRYPTOGRAPHY IS AN ANCIENT ART, well over two thousand years old. The need to keep certain information secret has always existed, and attempts to preserve secrets have therefore existed as well. But it is only in the last thirty years that cryptography has developed into a science...