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		computerfriend on Jan 5, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hacking a CTF: Do not use ECB mode for encryption Cryptography Engineering is the classic. Serious Cryptography is also good and more recent.

tptacek on Jan 5, 2024 [–]

I liked Cryptography Engineering ("Practical Cryptography") but it definitely doesn't hold up; it was obsolete by 2010. You'd get yourself in trouble implementing from it today.

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