From tedwards at wam.umd.edu Sun Jul 18 17:48:50 1993 From: tedwards at wam.umd.edu (technopagan priest) Date: Sun, 18 Jul 93 17:48:50 PDT Subject: Diffie Hellman Message-ID: <199307190048.AA02432@rac3.wam.umd.edu> For a broad introduction to information theory, coding, and their applications in cryptography, I reccommend _Codes_and_Cryptgraphy_ by Dominic Welsh (Oxford Science Publications, ISBN 0-19-853288-1 and ISBN 0-19-853287-3 Pbk). Some topics: information theory, noiseless coding theory, noisy channels, error-correcting codes, source theory, natural language structure, one-time pads, computational complexity, public key systems (RSA, Knapsacks, Rabin, Elgamal), authentication and digital signatures (Diffie-Lamport, Rabin), Diffie-Helman key exchange, and random numbers and random cryptsstems. -Thomas