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	While I am not a hard-core cryppy or mathematician, I'm pretty pleased
with this book I picked up as one of the selections on the Library of Computer
and Information Sciences bookclub. It's called "_Mathematical_Cryptology_"
by Wayne Patterson (~$35.00). I haven't finished it yet, but among the good
points I see so far: PASCAL (ick) source code for many types of crypt routines,
including DES, RSA, and others. Specifically for computer hacks, a discussion
of the authentication problem, that is pretty technish, but understandable.
	
	For people such as myself who aren't math wizzes, there are lots of
parts in this book that are best left unread :-). There is pretty good plain
text explanation of what all the math symbols MEAN, though, so it's not too
hard to follow. I recommend it.

--mjr();
-- 
If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical,
go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I get as crude as possible. These
days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire
to crudeness...			         -Johnny Mnemonic