I wonder who the intended audience of this review is. The book is clearly geared toward beginners. It would seem a review of such a book should be geared towa

I wonder who the intended audience of this review is. The book is clearly geared toward beginners. It would seem a review of such a book should be geared toward those who might read it to learn about cryptography. This review is obviously geared toward some other audience, however. Otherwise a criticism like The book writes its own Diffie-Hellman implementation and recommends it to readers would be backed up and explained, instead of being expected to stand on its own. Is the audience for this review intended to be cryptography experts, who would not read such a book except to praise or trash it? If that's the case, it seems rather mean spirited. More "wow check this loser out" than "I don't recommend this book to beginners or anyone and here's why."