5.2.1. Main Points
- gaps still exist here...I treated this as fairly low
priority, given the wealth of material on cryptography
5.2.2. Connections to Other Sections
- detailed crypto knowledge is not needed to understand many
of the implications, but it helps to know the basics (it
heads off many of the most wrong-headed interpretations)
- in particular, everyone should learn enough to at least
vaguely understand how "blinding" works
5.2.3. Where to Find Additional Information
+ a dozen or so major books
- Schneier, "Applied Cryptography"--is practically
"required reading"
- Denning
- Brassard
- Simmons
- Welsh, Dominic
- Salomaa
- "CRYPTO" Proceedings
- Other books I can take or leave
- many ftp sites, detailed in various places in this doc
- sci.crypt, alt.privacy.pgp, etc.
- sci.crypt.research is a new group, and is moderated, so it
should have some high-quality, technical posts
- FAQs on sci.crypt, from RSA, etc.
- Dave Banisar of EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information
Center) reports: "...we have several hundred files on
encryption available via ftp/wais/gopher/WWW from cpsr.org
/cpsr/privacy/crypto." [D.B., sci.crypt, 1994-06-30]
5.2.4. Miscellaneous Comments
- details of algorithms would fill several books...and do
- hence, will not cover crypto in depth here (the main focus
of this doc is the implications of crypto, the
Cypherpunkian aspects, the things not covered in crypto
textbooks)
- beware of getting lost in the minutiae, in the details of
specific algorithms...try to keep in the mind the
_important_ aspects of any system
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