Another great value reference:
A. Menezes, P. Oorschot and S. Vanstone, "Handbook of applied =
cryptography," CRC Press, 1996
All chapters are available for free download at =
http://cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/.
See http://www.mindspring.com/~pate/C for the implementations in C =
language of most of the algorithms.
Regards
Romeo Costanzo


> For obvious reasons I cannot elaborate further but I'd=20
> suggest reading the
> reknowned "Applied Cryptography" for a good explanation and examples.
> John
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