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Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction, by Sean Murphy, Fred Piper

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4.0

Pretty good introduction - covers some of the neat historical background whilst still finding time for modern applications.

It would have been nice if it had covered the use of salts in hash functions though, and perhaps gone into slightly more detail on asymmetric encryption algorithms (as one is left feeling they are somewhat magical).

But it does very well for it's length!
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