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Re: Applied Cryptography, 2nd Edition -- Errata version 1.2

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deranged Mutant)
Fri Feb 9 02:51:45 1996

Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 02:47:40 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Deranged Mutant <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com>

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Timothy C. May wrote:
> 
> At 1:49 AM 2/9/96, Bruce Schneier wrote:
> >                APPLIED CRYPTOGRAPHY, Second Edition
> >
> >                              ERRATA
> >                   Version 1.2 - 1 February 1996
> >
> ...
> 
> Wow. Does this mean the Third Edition will be coming out soon?
> 
> (Not to sound harsh, but that's a *lot* of errors still in the book...I
> thought a lot of reviewers were going to squish out these sorts of
> things?)

That would depend on hw long you'd want to delay releasing a book.

When I finished reading 1st ed., I decided I was going to try coding the 
MMB cipher, got ahold of the erratta which read "MMB has been cracked. 
Don't use it" or something like that.  Had nothing to do with a typo.

Rob.
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