Understanding Cryptography: A Textbook for Students and Practitioners

This book needs to be read in conjunction with Paar's lecture series on Youtube.com: by itself it sometimes lacks sufficient detail to be a stand alone text book. Notwithstanding this I am very pleased with my purchase.

This book is fantastic, subjects I thought I knew well (I obviously didn't). I don't have a maths background, but seemed to just about grasp what was being described.Highly recommended.

I had follow the cryto course on Youtube sometime its hard to understand the principle (for me at least) until I follow it in a book. Cryptography is very hard anyway I am still working my way through the book. very very good companion to the YouTube series.

Great book with great accompanying material. "Ok, thanks... great lecture" ;D

Great stuff. See his lectures on You Tube that go with the book.