Cryptography

Applied Cryptography, Second Edition: Protocols, Algorthms, and Source Code in C

Author(s): 
Bruce Schneier
Description: 

This new edition of the cryptography classic provides you with a comprehensive survey of modern cryptography. The book details how programmers and electronic communications professionals can use cryptography-the technique of enciphering and deciphering messages-to maintain the privacy of computer data. It describes dozens of cryptography algorithms, gives practical advice on how to implement them into cryptographic software, and shows how they can be used to solve security problems. Covering the latest developments in practical cryptographic techniques, this new edition shows programmers who design computer applications, networks, and storage systems how they can build security into their software and systems.

What's new in the Second Edition?
* New information on the Clipper Chip, including ways to defeat the key escrow mechanism
* New encryption algorithms, including algorithms from the former Soviet Union and South Africa, and the RC4 stream cipher
* The latest protocols for digital signatures, authentication, secure elections, digital cash, and more
* More detailed information on key management and cryptographic implementations

Security in Computing

Author(s): 
Charles P. Pfleeger - Pfleeger Consulting Group
Shari Lawrence Pfleeger - RAND Corporation
Description: 

The New State-of-the-Art in Information Security: Now Covers the Economics of Cyber Security and the Intersection of Privacy and Information Security

For years, IT and security professionals and students have turned to Security in Computing as the definitive guide to information about computer security attacks and countermeasures. In their new fourth edition, Charles P. Pfleeger and Shari Lawrence Pfleeger have thoroughly updated their classic guide to reflect today's newest technologies, standards, and trends.

The authors first introduce the core concepts and vocabulary of computer security, including attacks and controls. Next, the authors systematically identify and assess threats now facing programs, operating systems, database systems, and networks. For each threat, they offer best-practice responses.

Security in Computing, Fourth Edition, goes beyond technology, covering crucial management issues faced in protecting infrastructure and information. This edition contains an all-new chapter on the economics of cybersecurity, explaining ways to make a business case for security investments. Another new chapter addresses privacy--from data mining and identity theft, to RFID and e-voting.

New coverage also includes

* Programming mistakes that compromise security: man-in-the-middle, timing, and privilege escalation attacks
* Web application threats and vulnerabilities
* Networks of compromised systems: bots, botnets, and drones
* Rootkits--including the notorious Sony XCP
* Wi-Fi network security challenges, standards, and techniques
* New malicious code attacks, including false interfaces and keystroke loggers
* Improving code quality: software engineering, testing, and liability approaches
* Biometric authentication: capabilities and limitations
* Using the Advanced Encryption System (AES) more effectively
* Balancing dissemination with piracy control in music and other digital content
* Countering new cryptanalytic attacks against RSA, DES, and SHA
* Responding to the emergence of organized attacker groups pursuing profit

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