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Title: Marred by errors
Review: The book has very obvious errors. For example, AES/Rijndael uses 10, 12, 14 rounds for en/decryption, and not 9, 11, 13 as the authors claim on page 395.RC2, RC4, RC5 are not based on RSA, as the authors claim on page 396. It does not even make sense for a block cipher to be derived from a public-key cryptosystem such as RSA. RC5 admits a key size of 0 to 2040 (255*8) bits, not 0 to 2048 bits.There are so many more error that the readers should not take the technical accuracy of this book for granted.
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