Handbook of Applied Cryptography (Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications)

"very well suited for the reader who wants an encyclopedic description of the state of the art of applied modern cryptography." -Mathematical Reviews, Issue 99g "[This book] is an incredible achievement. [T]he handbook is complete. If I want to check what problems there were with a proposed system, determine how the variations on a particular algorithm developed, see what research preceded and followed an idea, I go to the Handbook. The Handbook has accurate, clear, and correct information. It is wonderful. If I were limited to only one cryptography text on my shelves, it would be the Handbook of Applied Cryptography." - Bulletin of the AMS