Security in Computing, Third Edition

2.12. To Learn More

This chapter does not present much of the history of encryption. Because encryption has been used for military and diplomatic communications, many of the stories are fascinating. David Kahn's thorough study of encryption [KAH67, KAH96] still stands as the masterpiece. Other interesting sources are the works by Friedman [FRI76a], [FRI76b], and [FRI76c]; [DEA85]; [BAM82]; and [YAR31].

The highly readable presentation of elementary cryptography by Sinkov [SIN66] is well worth study. A more precise and mathematical analysis is done by Konheim [KON80] and Meyer and Matyas [MEY82]. Many more simple encryption algorithms are presented in [FOS82]. Singh [SIN99] presents an overview of the history of cryptography from primitive days ...