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10. Recommended Reading

Books on PGP

Stallings, William, Protect Your Privacy: A Guide for PGP Users, Prentice Hall, 1995, ISBN 0-13-185596-4. (Current errata at ftp://ftp.shore.net/members/ws/Errata-PGP-mmyy.txt)

Garfinkel, Simson, PGP: Pretty Good Privacy, O'Reilly & Associates, 1994, ISBN 1-56592-098-8.

Schneier, Bruce, E-Mail Security with PGP and PEM: How To Keep Your Electronic Messages Private, John Wiley & Sons, 1995, ISBN 0-471-05318-X.

Kahn, David, The Code Breakers, The Story of Secret Writing, The MacMillan Publishing Company (1968), ISBN: 0-02-560460-0.

Books on cryptography in general

Bruce Schneier, Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, John Wiley & Sons, 1993

Dorothy Denning, Cryptography and Data Security, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA 1982

Dorothy Denning, Protecting Public Keys and Signature Keys, IEEE Computer, Feb 1983

Martin E. Hellman, The Mathematics of Public-Key Cryptography, Scientific American, Aug 1979

PGP- or cryptograph-related articles

Steven Levy, Crypto Rebels, WIRED, May/Jun 1993, page 54. (This is a "must-read" article on PGP and other related topics.)

Ronald Rivest, The MD5 Message Digest Algorithm, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, 1991. Available from the net as RFC1321.

Xuejia Lai, On the Design and Security of Block Ciphers, Institute for Signal and Information Processing, ETH-Zentrum, Zurich, Switzerland, 1992

Xuejia Lai, James L. Massey, Sean Murphy, Markov Ciphers and Differential Cryptanalysis, Advances in Cryptology- EUROCRYPT'91

Philip Zimmermann, A Proposed Standard Format for RSA Cryptosystems, Advances in Computer Security, Vol III, edited by Rein Turn, Artech House, 1988

Paul Wallich, Electronic Envelopes, Scientific American, Feb 1993, page 30. (This is an article on PGP)

Usenet newsgroups

alt.anonymous
alt.privacy.anon-server
Discussion of anonymity and anon remailers
alt.anonymous.messages
For anonymous encrypted message transfer
alt.privacy.clipper
Clipper, Capstone, Skipjack, Key Escrow
alt.security
General security discussions
comp.security.pgp.announce
New PGP versions, utilities, bug reports and such. (Moderated)
comp.security.pgp.discuss
PGP and its implications.
comp.security.pgp.tech
Use of PGP, bug reports and help.
comp.security.pgp.resources
PGP related resources, information and more.
alt.security.pgp
General discussion of PGP
alt.security.ripem
Discussion of RIPEM
alt.security.keydist
Key distribution via Usenet
alt.society.civil-liberty
General civil liberties, including privacy
comp.org.eff.news
News reports from the Electronic Frontier Foundation
comp.org.eff.talk
Discussion of EFF related issues
comp.patents
Discussion of S/W patents, including RSA
comp.risks
Some mention of crypto and wiretapping
comp.society.privacy
General privacy issues
comp.security.announce
Announcements of security holes
misc.legal.computing
Software patents, copyrights, computer laws
sci.crypt
Methods of data encryption/decryption
sci.math
General math discussion
talk.politics.crypto
General talk on crypto politics

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