Applied Cryptography is an excellent book, but it is very very old. Nearly 25 years old.
The foreword of the semi-recent (2015) "20th anniversary edition" (which appears to be a reissue of the 2nd edition) even recommends that you look for a more modern reference.
And one of the lessons of the last decades is that programmers should generally not be implementing their own cryptography unless that is their specialty.
The foreword of the semi-recent (2015) "20th anniversary edition" (which appears to be a reissue of the 2nd edition) even recommends that you look for a more modern reference.
And one of the lessons of the last decades is that programmers should generally not be implementing their own cryptography unless that is their specialty.