Preface to the First American Edition
Mathematics is a misunderstood and even maligned discipline. It's not the brute computations they drilled into us in grade school. It's not the science of reckoning. Mathematicians do not spend their time thinking up cleverer ways of multiplying, faster methods of adding, better schemes for extracting cube roots.
THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION IS A TRANSLATION OF the second German edition, which has been revised and expanded from the first German edition in a number of ways. Additional examples of cryptographic algorithms have been added, such as the procedures of Rabin and El Gamal, and in the realization of the RSA procedure the hash function RIPEMD-160 and formatting ...
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