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Re:Ask YC: What would you put on a hacker's bookshelf? by corentin on Wednesday March 12, 2008 @05:24PM (#135487)
* "Applied Cryptography" by Bruce Schneier. The first chapters are a great introduction to cryptography, but I found the few following chapters presenting cryptographic protocols mind-blowing. Some of them are so simple yet very clever.

* Political economy essays by Frédéric Bastiat ( http://bastiat.org ) were truly enlightening for me.

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