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		cratermoon on April 2, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “True” Randomness vs. “Pseudo” Randomness Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, by Bruce Schneier

tptacek on April 2, 2023 [–]

Not a good book for this at all. I don't think I'd start with cryptography if what I was really after was stochastic processes; something in algorithms would be better. But a good modern starting book for cryptography is JP Aumasson's Serious Cryptography.

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