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etwork security. Mandatory reading for aspiring system managers. Antonia J. Jones:18 December 2001 2 W. Stallings. Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice. Prentice Hall. 1998. ISBN 0-13-869017-0. Fills in many aspects of the present course and goes on to discuss mail and internet security. C. P. Pfleeger. Security in Computing. Prentice Hall. 1997. ISBN 0-13-185794-0. Good general introduction. The classic 1,200 page definitive story of cryptography up to the late 1950's is: D. Kahn. The Codebreakers. Scribner, New York. 1996. A recent very interesting account including the history of RSA and PGP and a non-technical discussion of quantum cryptography is: S. Singh. The Code Book. Fourth Estate, London. 1999. Fiction: Neal Stephenson. Cryptonomicon. William Heinemann, London. 1999. Antonia J. Jones:18 December 2001 3 CONTENTS I G

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