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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