The old Cryptopals challenges (http://cryptopals.com/) seem to cover the same material in a pedagogically very different way - they don't feed you the information as this book does, but give you a practical task which can be easily done with e.g. reading the specification of an algorithm from wikipedia, but figuring out the implementation of the attack yourself gives a much better understanding than simply reading about it.
Although this book claims a "Learn by doing" approach, I didn't find any specific assignments or data samples to facilitate that.
Although this book claims a "Learn by doing" approach, I didn't find any specific assignments or data samples to facilitate that.