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Title: The Twofish Encryption Algorithm: A 128-Bit Block Cipher by Bruce Schneier, John Kelsey, Doug Whiting, David Wagner, Chris Hall, Niels Ferguson ISBN: 0-471-35381-7 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 22 March, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: AES also-ran, hint: use Rijndael
Comment: In case you've been asleep for the past few years, the AES competition is over. Rijndael won, two-fish lost. End of story. This book serves only as a historical artifact depicting Schneier's failed attempt at lasting fame and glory.
Listen to the *real* crypto experts (i.e. the AES judges) and stick with the solution that they've chosen.
The source code in this book is an ungodly mess that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. It is a mish-mash of poorly explained macros and pre-processor directives. It would take a divine miracle to get the source to compile (Scheier neglects to go into the details of how to do a build, he just throws the source code at you and expects you to figure it out). Perhaps, then, it's no surprise why team-Schneier lost AES.
This book was just PR for the AES competition. Now that it's over, the only thing this book is good for is to prop a door open.
Rating: 5
Summary: fascinating to a limited audience
Comment: Bruce Schneier is the Yoda of crpytography and information security, if you've heard him there's no need to ask anyone else. This book would probably only appeal to the genuinely avid crypto fan, its Greek to anyone else. It is a thorough exposition of the making of the Twofish cypher, the latest attempt to secure information as absolutely as possible. You must be well versed in cryptography to get anything out of the work.
Rating: 5
Summary: A important book to decipher
Comment: This book is not a how-to-do thing. You will learn why this cypher was created, how it was created it all the details. Not an introductory book. But very worth to who ever want to enter modern applied cryptographic field.
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Title: Practical Cryptography by Niels Ferguson, Bruce Schneier ISBN: 0471223573 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 28 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Cryptography in C and C++ by Michael Welschenbach, David Kramer ISBN: 189311595X Publisher: Apress Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, Second Edition by Bruce Schneier ISBN: 0471117099 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 18 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: The Design of Rijndael: AES - The Advanced Encryption Standard (Information Security and Cryptography) by Joan Daemen, Vincent Rijmen ISBN: 3540425802 Publisher: Springer-Verlag Pub. Date: 15 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Beyond Fear by Bruce Schneier ISBN: 0387026207 Publisher: Copernicus Books Pub. Date: 28 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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