Here's some information on cryptology-related journals and bookstores. The information is not guaranteed to be completely up-to-date. Last updated: 6 February 1993 mrr@scss3.cl.msu.edu ===== JOURNALS ===== Journal of Cryptology Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. Service Center Secaucus 44 Hartz Way Secaucus, NJ 07094 USA (201)348-4033 $87/year + $8 postage & handling. Published three times a year. Scholarly journal. Cryptosystems Journal Tony Patti, Editor and Publisher P. O. Box 188 Newtown, PA 18940-0188 USA (215)579-9888 tony_s_patti@cup.portal.com $45/year. Published three times a year. Journal dedicated to the implementation of cryptographic systems on IBM PCs. Emphasis on tutorial/pragmatic aspects. Evidently all articles are written by the publisher. CRYPTOLOGIA Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Terre Haute, IN 47803 USA $34/year. Published four times a year. Blend of cryptlogical history and technique, including some modern techniques. Edited by such well-known figures as David Kahn and Cipher Devours. This is not the place where the latest breakthroughs are published, though. COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY REVIEWS Northgate Consultants Ltd Ivy Dene, Lode Fen, Cambs CB5 9HF, UK (+44 223) 334678. $95/year, published four times a year. Reviews and abstracts all published research in cryptology and computer security. Sections on applications and engineering, operating systems and databases, security management, formal methods, secret key algorithms, public key algorithms, computational number theory and theoretical cryptology. FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE PO BOX 770813 LAKEWOOD, OH 44107 $18 a year - make check m/o to Darren Smith (editor). Jack Jeffries (cj137@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) says that this is a local publication which has articles on cryptology. That's all I know about it. The Cryptogram Journal of the American Cryptogram Association P. O. Box 6454 Silver Spring, MD 20906 Available by joining the ACA; dues are probably about $20/year by now. Published six times a year. Contains mostly puzzles for you to solve. No techniques invented after 1920 are used, with simple substitution being the most common. Also contains articles on classical cryptosystems, and book reviews. Not a scholarly journal. The Cryptogram Computer Supplement Dan Veeneman P. O. Box 7 Burlington, IL 60109 USA $2.50/issue. Published three times a year for ACA members. Newsletter for computer hobbyist members of the ACA. The Public Key George H. Foot, Editor Waterfall, Uvedale Road Oxted, Surry RH8 0EW United Kingdom (Cost unknown.) Magazine devoted to public key cryptography, especially amoungst personal computer owners. [Note that RSA's patents do not apply in Europe, hence the existence of this magazine.] Also of interest: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. (Address and price not handy at the moment.) Not a crypto journal, of course, but occasionally contains articles of major cryptologic significance. The Transactions of The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers ( IEICE ) English edition of this Japanese journal available through: Maruzen Co., Ltd. P.O. Box 5050, Tokyo International 100 - 31, Japan $10/issue or $120/year. Published twelve times a year. Similar to IEEE Trans on Information Theory. The June 90 edition is entirely devoted to cryptography. Back issues are available. Infosecurity News MIS Training Institute Press, Inc. 498 Concord Street Framingham MA 01701-2357 Nominally $40/year (6 issues), but free to "qualified" subscribers. This trade journal is oriented toward administrators and covers viruses, physical security, hackers, and so on more than cryptology. Furthermore, most of the articles are written by vendors and hence are biased. Nevertheless, there are occasionally some rather good crypto articles. ===== BOOKSTORES / PUBLISHERS ===== Aegean Park Press P. O. Box 2837 Laguna Hills, CA 92654-0837 Publishers of books on cryptology, mostly reprints of fairly advanced texts on classical cryptology. (Including over 15 books by the famous WW II cryptologists Friedman, Callimahos, and Kullback). They have over 50 books related to cryptology, and a smaller number of books on other areas such as military intelligence. Recommended. Artech House 610 Washington St., Dedham MA 02026 Publishes various books on cryptology, including some collections of articles from CRYPTOLOGIA. Alec Chambers (jac54@cas.org) adds the following bookstores: National Intelligence Book Center This is the only organization anywhere to act as a collecting point for new books on topics such as espionage, crypto., and computer security. They scour the world for books and some will be expensive because they air-freight everything in. It is easiest to contact them by phone: 202-785-4334 Fax: 202-785-7456. You will probably talk to Elizabeth Bancroft (who runs the whole thing). In addition, they have a publication called the "Surveillant" (6 issues/ year, $48.00) which announces new acquisitions and has some news from the intelligence field. Each issue comes with a check-off order form for books announced in that issue. It can be contacted at: Surveillant, Lock Box Mail Unit 18757 Washington, DC 20036-8757. Second-hand Specialists: There are four dealers who specialize in espionage and related fields in the U.S. I have dealt very happily with two of them (that's all I can afford to support). They are: Cloak and Dagger Books Dan D. Halpin Jr. 9 Eastman Ave Bedford, NH 03110 603-668-1629 603-626-0626 (fax) and Elm Spy Books Box 9753 Arnold, MD 21012 310-544-9014. These two will buy, sell, and trade and to back order searches. Elm is interested in expanding coverage in crypto. and may be interested in dealing. Two others I have not dealt with, but who may be useful are: The Last Hurrah Bookshop 937 Memorial Avenue Williamsport, PA 17701 717-327-9338 and Ruth Koffsky Books (for whom I can't find an address right now) I hope this is useful. Encourage people to tell these sources how they found out about them. [i.e., from Alec Chambers] Mark Riordan mrr@scss3.cl.msu.edu