I've just finished the review phase of my 2nd book [see my website for
details, I won't link it here for obvious reasons].

It's a text covering software developer problems with cryptography, and
is based for the most part on my experience as a developer and from
supporting my projects. I think the book is a decent read and for the
software developers out there stuck doing crypto work it should prove
useful.

It's not a "handbook of applied crypto" style book, so please don't
think of it as a re-run book :-)

The text hits the printers tomorrow and should be in stock within a
month [starting in the states of course...].

I recommend picking up my 1st book on large integer math, not just
because it's my book but because it covers the math in more depth than
this book does. I also recommend the "Guide to Elliptic Curve
Cryptography" as I don't cover ECC in a huge amount of depth. The
three books fit well together as they were written in that frame of
mind (they sit on my desk at the office).

RESULT
misc.news.east-europe.rferl will be removed

The Last Call for Comments (LCC) on 22 Sep 2006 initiated a five-day
period for final comments. Following the comment period, the Big-8
Management board has decided by consensus to remove the newsgroup
misc.news.east-europe.rferl.

This group will be removed on 01 Oct 2006.

(Our apologies for the delay in this announcement. - Tim + B8MB)

RATIONALE: remove misc.news.east-europe.rferl

The last approved message was in December 1994.

The Newsline is still available via the WWW or by e-mail at
http://www.rferl.org/newsline/ so the newsgroup is an unused redundancy.

HISTORY:

The newsgroup misc.news.east-europe.rferl was created in November 1992 to
distribute the RFE/RL Daily Report which was also distributed via a listserv at
that time, and also being reposted into a number of other newsgroups.

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REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
remove misc.news.east-europe.rferl

This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the
newsgroup misc.news.east-europe.rferl.

PROCEDURE:

The B8MB plans to begin voting on this proposal after five days. Please
offer any final discussion or comments before the end of this waiting
period. Voting may take up to one week (7 days); a result will be posted
following the end of the voting period.

All discussion of this proposal should be posted to news.groups.

The full (draft) group removal procedure is documented here:

http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:rmgroup

SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION:

There was some discussion about reconnecting the newsgroup to the
RFE/RL mailing list. However, there were no comments from the
newsgroups which presumably would have the most interest in the
content of the RFE/RL news digest.

RATIONALE: remove misc.news.east-europe.rferl

The last approved message was in December 1994.

REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
remove misc.news.east-europe.rferl

This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the
newsgroup misc.news.east-europe.rferl.

RATIONALE: remove misc.news.east-europe.rferl

The last approved message was in December 1994.

The Newsline is still available via the WWW or by e-mail at
http://www.rferl.org/newsline/ so the newsgroup is an unused redundancy.

HISTORY:

The newsgroup misc.news.east-europe.rferl was created in November 1992 to
distribute the RFE/RL Daily Report which was also distributed via a listserv at
that time, and also being reposted into a number of other newsgroups.

PROCEDURE:

The full (draft) group removal procedure is documented here:

http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:rmgroup

Those who wish to comment on this request to remove this newsgroup should
subscribe to news.groups and participate in the relevant threads in that
newsgroup.

To this end, the followup header of this RFD has been set to news.groups.