[Spooks] Re: [OT] good book on crypto?

[Al Fansome]

"Mathematical Cryptology" by Wayne Patterson. It's a little old, but still 
very interesting. I particularly liked the discussion of why the very first 
public key system, the "knapsack" algorithm, failed.

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