Prerequisites for

Mastering Algorithms with Perl
Orwant, Jon / Hietaniemi, Jarkko / Macdonald, John. 1999. 684 pages.
Categories: Programming
This book deserves a good rating, but since I'm rating it on its crypto content, it only gets an ok rating. A great book to have if you're a serious perl programmer. 27 pages discuss number theory, and 40 pages discuss cryptography. In the cryptography section are perl code samples (available online) demonstrating areas such as SSLeay.pm, winnowing/chaffing, and steganography. (Hopefully, you're not doing any serious cryptography projects in perl.)


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