New Skill Forged: Handbook of Applied Cryptography

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Handbook of Applied Cryptography by Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot & Scott A. Vanstone. 800 pages.

The rigorous academic reference for applied cryptography — block/stream ciphers, cipher modes (ECB/CBC/CTR/GCM), hash functions (birthday bound, collision resistance), RSA (OAEP/PSS), DH/ECDH, ECC, digital signatures (DSA/ECDSA/EdDSA), authentication protocols, key establishment, and cryptographic attack taxonomy.

What this skill teaches Claude to do:

  • Select correct cipher mode: AES-GCM for AEAD, CBC+HMAC for legacy, never ECB
  • Explain RSA key generation, OAEP padding, and why textbook RSA is broken
  • Explain Diffie-Hellman and ECDH key agreement from first principles
  • …and 7 more

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