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Title: Runaway text
Review: I've never seen so many pages devoted to pure text. Man oh man, is there a lot of talk--yak yak yak. All technical issues are detoured, inviting the reader to check out the references listed at the end of the book (all I have to buy is 1,643 references--gee, thanks). I find it disheartening that a 700 page book on cryptography doesn't give out a lick of information on the actual subject. If you like a bunch of talk and some hand waving explanations, then this book is definitely for you. Engineers and computer programmers may not be satisfied.
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