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Practical Cryptography
by: Niels Ferguson, Bruce Schneier

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.82
EAN: 9780471223573
ISBN: 0471223573
Label: John Wiley & Sons
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: April 15, 2003
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Studio: John Wiley & Sons
Sales Rank: 148599

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Very nice.
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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- Practical, Real-world cryptography.
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 ... Read More:

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- Cookbook cryptography
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?).

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- An interesting book that I enjoyed reading.
As a general rule Software Developers (I am one) could all benefit from more information and awareness of security, and I found this book to be both informative and interesting.

For me the balance was good, it sits (as promised) between theory and the real world.

The first chapters give a good background and introduction to cryptography.

The next sections cover the Basic Cryptography functions (e.g. Block Ciphers and Modes, Hash functions and Message Authentication), Key Negotiation and Management together with related areas. Both theory and the praticalities of implementation are covered.

I liked the style, the authors clearly enjoy their work and certainly have opinions (although some may find it patronizing ... Read More:

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- Fantastic book, even for fledgings
I own Applied Crypto, and as others have said about that book, the only shortcoming nowadays is that it's nearly 10 years old. Obviously this book, being brand-new, covers new material - the best of which so-far is the NIST AES finalists. Very interesting and enlightening material. What i also like about this book is that it doesn't assume that you're a seasoned professional (e.g, explains the basis of S-boxes, rounds, etc) So it does cater for the beginner, but also the seasoned professional. (unlike me!)

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