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In article <1gb7obINN3tp@gap.caltech.edu> heathh@cco.caltech.edu (Heath Ian Hunnicutt) writes:
>uri@watson.ibm.com (Uri Blumenthal,35-016,8621267,) writes:
>For an interesting discussion of
>research into the S-boxes, try "Cryptology for Mathematicians and Computer
>Scientists."  I don't have it handy, or I'd give an author and ISBN.
>The book is quite good, and gives Pascal source for DES and RSA
>implementations.
>

The book is called:  _Mathematical_Cryptology_for_Computer_Scientists_and_
Mathematicians_, by Wayne Patterson.  It was published in 1987 by Rowman &
Littlefield.  I disagree that it is "quite good."  The book is riddled with
errors (most of them seemm to be typos, but some are honest-to-goodness
errors), the notation changes from one chapter to the other, and whole areas
of cryptology are left out.

The book is out of print, and I beieve the publisher is out of business.  The
last time I spoke with the author (a couple of years ago) he was thinking of
cleaning up the book and having a second edition published elsewhere.  As far
as I know, nothing has ever come of that.

The source code all works, though.

Bruce