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Security is the number one concern for businesses worldwide. The gold standard for attaining security is cryptography because it provides the most reliable tools for storing or transmitting digital information. Written by Niels Ferguson, lead cryptographer for Counterpane, Bruce Schneier′s security company, and Bruce Schneier himself, this is the much anticipated follow–up book to Schneier′s seminal encyclopedic reference, Applied Cryptography, Second Edition (0–471–11709–9), which has sold more than 150,000 copies.
Niels Ferguson (Amsterdam, Netherlands) is a cryptographic engineer and consultant at Counterpane Internet Security. He has extensive experience in the creation and design of security algorithms, protocols, and multinational security infrastructures. Previously, Ferguson was a cryptographer for DigiCash and CWI. At CWI he developed the first generation of off–line payment protocols. He has published numerous scientific papers.
Bruce Schneier (Minneapolis, MN) is Founder and Chief Technical Officer at Counterpane Internet Security, a managed–security monitoring company. He is also the author of Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World (0–471–25311–1).
Niels Ferguson (Amsterdam, Netherlands) is a cryptographic engineer and consultant at Counterpane Internet Security. He has extensive experience in the creation and design of security algorithms, protocols, and multinational security infrastructures. Previously, Ferguson was a cryptographer for DigiCash and CWI. At CWI he developed the first generation of off–line payment protocols. He has published numerous scientific papers.
Bruce Schneier (Minneapolis, MN) is Founder and Chief Technical Officer at Counterpane Internet Security, a managed–security monitoring company. He is also the author of Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World (0–471–25311–1).
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Two of the world’s top experts in cryptography teach you how to secure your digital future
In today’s world, security is a top concern for businesses worldwide. Without a secure computer system, you don’t make money, you don’t expand, and–bottom line–you don’t survive. Cryptography holds great promise as the technology to provide security in cyberspace. Amazingly enough, no literature exists about how to implement cryptography and how to incorporate it into real–world systems. With Practical Cryptography, an author team of international renown provides you with the first hands–on cryptographic product implementation guide, bridging the gap between cryptographic theory and real–world cryptographic applications.
This follow–up guide to the bestselling Applied Cryptography dives in and explains the how–to of cryptography. You’ll find discussions on:
- Practical rules for choosing and using cryptographic primitives, from block ciphers to digital signatures
- Implementing cryptographic algorithms and systems in a secure way on today’s computers
- A consistent design philosophy to ensure that every part of the system achieves the required security level
- Why security affects every part of the system, and why it has to be a primary goal of the project
- How simple interfaces for cryptographic primitives reduce system complexity and increase system security
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Cookbook cryptography,
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A successor, but not a replacement, for Schneier's renowned Applied Cryptography. Instead of that book's comprehensive approach, with descriptions of a multiplicity of techniques and algorithms, Practical Cryptography tends towards the opposite extreme, usually listing only one way to perform any task. Pseudocode is used to explain most algorithms. In some cases, readers are referred elsewhere for details (almost always available on the web). The authors go out of their way to keep the mathematics in explanations to a minimum: the maths is most apparent, as would be expected, in the section on public key cryptography. One or two implementation details, and the PRNG described, are previously unpublished (therefore less well tested?).In general, Ferguson and Schneier's rather didactic approach works here, though occasionally I was left wishing for more detail. This book would most suit a programmer without much previous experience of cryptography, who needs to gain a working knowledge of cryptography without needing to wade through too much theory.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Practical, Real-world cryptography.,
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This review is from: Practical Cryptography (Paperback)
This book really does convey what practical cryptography is all about. Bruce and Niels hard-won experience of implementing cryptography shines through as they discuss not only different ways of implementing systems but take the reader through their reasoning for why one is more favourable than another. They assert that programming cryptographic systems requires a different mindset from conventional programming, and explain why. Using the classic Alice and Bob model they take the reader through the steps required to set-up a secure channel, despite Eve reading all the messages. This book could be the course text for a degree module in cryptography. It doesn't cover all the necessary nitty-gritty of algorithms (there are plenty of books that do that) rather it gives the reader a framework for thinking about and implementing practical cryptographic systems.
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This book is excellent for anyone interested in cryptography. It gives coverage of a wide range of cryptographic topics, and is very easy to understand. 'Practical Cryptography' is a perfect partner with 'Applied Cryptography' - the former discusses the inner working of cryptographic systems and the latter, whilst giving some information on cryptographic theory, is more orientated on implementation choices. 4 Stars.
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