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In article <PHR.92Oct27145354@napa.telebit.com>, phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin) writes:
> I just bought a copy at Computer Literacy in Sunnyvale.  Sixty bucks
> (ouch).  It's a very good book but I've gotta say, you'll have to
> be a real crypto history/war story buff to think it's worth dropping
> that much cash.  There's not much technical info about any modern
> crypto systems in it.
> 
> I hear there was a paperback edition that was somewhat abridged.
> That's the one I would go for if I could find it.  Yes, I wish it wasn't
> abridged, but there was quite a lot of stuff in the book that wasn't
> essential.

What was deleted from the paperback edition was virtually all of the
technical details!  (I own both version, btw.)

You're right, there's not much about modern cryptosystems.  On the other
hand, virtually every text cryptography, and many papers, cite Kahn's
work for describing the groundwork.  Personally, I regard it as a must-read.