From msuinfo!caen!uunet!dove!ariel.ncsl.nist.gov!wack Fri Jan 22 16:33:30 1993
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From: wack@ariel.ncsl.nist.gov (John Wack)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: How to get a copy of NIST pub
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Date: 12 Jan 93 13:43:28 GMT
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In article <1993Jan12.002340.15177@linus.mitre.org> hal@gateway.mitre.org (Hal Feinstein) writes:
>
>To get a copy of  NIST's special publication Public Key Cryptography
>(NIST special publication 800-2) you have to buy it from the US 
>government printing office. The best I can find is the usual 
>boiler plate: superintendent of documents, US government printing office
>washington, DC. 20402. I ordered my copy through an telephone order
>line that they have. But I had a detailed flier number to do it with.
>You might try to see if the clerk on the other end of the telephone
>can help you out. Its in NISTS reports on comptuer security series
>code number  NSPU2.  

Another way is to ftp it from our archive, HOWEVER WAIT FOR SEVERAL DAYS!
We just had the internal disk go bad and we're still waiting for that
"overnight" delivery to arrive!  But, by Wednesday or Thursday, Jan 14,
ftp to csrc.ncsl.nist.gov (129.6.54.11), user anonymous, and cd to 
pub/nistpubs, and get 800-2.txt.  Sorry, no .ps available.  I'll second
the recommendation for this text - it is a very good introduction to
cryptography and has enough math to really get you started.  And, it's
free!

-John Wack