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13 reviews
John Hershey

McGraw-Hill Professional, 2002

A book about Cryptography for everyone
If you are looking to expand your mind, think about learning Cryptography. It is an excellent discipline to help you think in new ways. If you decide you want to learn Cryptography, this is the book for you. The book is written in modules, making it easy to digest. The book is equally suitable for a formal classroom or self-study environment. Using the book for self study is enhanced by the ...

Satellite Encryption

17 reviews
John R. Vacca

Academic Press, 1999

Great book
Great book - detailed and technical, but still a good read

Code Talker

17 reviews
Joseph Bruchac, 2008

Amazing Book
Ned Begay, a six year old kid, who had to leave his Navajo home, in America and join a boarding school, had to learn the English language and the American ways. In the boarding school, he was not allowed to speak his native language and if he did, there were consequences. Japan was one of the most powerful countries, at that time. Soon Japan started attacking America and World War 2 began. ...

Information Security Intelligence: Cryptographic Principles & Applications

16 reviews
Thomas Calabrese

Delmar Cengage Learning, 2003

Difficult subject made easy
Mr. Calabrese has written a wonderful book. Complete with examples and in an easy to understand format. The mathematical principles behind cryptography were a lot easier to understand than other books I have read on the subject. The CD is very helpful and the personal touch where you can see and hear Mr. Calabrese answers questions was very helpful. If you are interested in information ...

Public Key Infrastructure: Building Trusted Applications and Web Services

18 reviews

Taylor & Francis, 2007

Handshakes
"Trust used to be all about a handshake - and nothing has changed..." So begins Appendix F in Vacca's book. The entirety of the book defines that critical handshake, which has been made so much more complex by Internet freedom and opportunities. Layers of certification and handshaking, both online and offline, hashing, third parties, CA's. Vacca includes costings, comparatives, ...

Cryptography and E-Commerce: A Wiley Tech Brief

10 reviews
Jon C. Graff

Wiley, 2000

Excellent introduction to symmetric and PKC cryptography
The basics of the usage of symmetric and asymmetric cryptography are explained here step by step in a precise way visualized by clear drawings of a sender, (evil) observer and recipient. Starting with the simplest case and showing what's faulty about it, the author develops an understanding of why it needs message digestion, public and private keys and either Kerberos or a certification ...

The American Black Chamber

12 reviews
Herbert O Yardley

American House, 1999

Our "NSA" in 1918!
Yardley could sight-read the encrypted messages of the time. This and "Education of a Poker Player" are informative and entertaining.

Alvin's Secret Code

12 reviews
Clifford B. Hicks

Henry Holth & Co (J), 1963

Tom Sawyer meets 007
"Alvin's Secret Code" twines a good introduction to cryptography with a Civil War mystery and is thoroughly enjoyable throughout. When Alvin and his friend Shoie discover an encoded message, they think they're on the trail of an international spy ring in their small town (the copyright date on the book is 1963). WIth the help of Mr. Link, a former spy who is now an invalid, they are able to ...

The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography

251 reviews
Simon Singh

Doubleday, 1999

Excellent reading on evolution of cryptography
Simon Singh books usually hold you from the first page and till the end. "The code book" is very well written and very informative. You will see how it's started and where cryptography goes, but even more interesting part of history of cryptography - life (sometimes secret life) of people who worked and continue to work on development of cryptosystems.

And I Was There : Breaking the Secrets - Pearl Harbor and Midway

9 reviews
Rear Admiral Edwin T. Layton

William S Konecky Assoc, 2001

Navy coverup for their Pearl Harbor incompetence
And I was there. This is a great book by one who was there, Adm Layton. He was Adm Kimmels intelligence officer at Pearl Harbor. He shows how the incompetence of the Navy in Washington led to the surprise attack at Pearl, by the Navy, specifically adm Stark and Kelly Turner, not giving Pearl the vital information they had about Jap intentions, but refused to give Pearl. The Navy also had 2 ...

The Physics of Quantum Information: Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Teleportation, Quantum Computation

5 reviews

Springer, 2000

Excellent book on the Physics of Quantum Information
I have heard about this book when I was attending a series of lectures in Cambridge related to this topic, and one of the speakers was D. Bouwmeester. A. Eckert and A. Zeilinger are quite well known names in quantum physics, and this is assures for the high quality of the book. The book is clear in form and complete in its contents and reflects the professionality of the people involved in ...

Enigma: How the German Machine Cipher Was Broken and How It Was Read by the Allies in World War Two (Foreign ...

5 reviews
Wladyslaw Kozaczuk

Univ Pubns of Amer, 1984

The Poles Solve ENIGMA...Placed in Broad Historical Context
The author Kozaczuk summarizes the facts: "As far as the first phase--fundamental to all further work--is concerned, it has been shown that the solution to ENIGMA, in all its manifestations during the years 1933-39, was a purely Polish achievement. The mathematical methods, Polish ENIGMA doubles, and ancillary technology, when passed on to the British, enabled them to exploit this achievement in ...

Between Silk and Cyanide : A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945

3 reviews
Leo Marks

Free Press, 1999

Monty Python meets Bletchley Park
I was about to direct the play "Breaking the Code" and plucked this book from somewhere because I thought it would provide background. The project fell through so I put the book aside thinking that it would be extremely dry and technical - not exactly what you want on your nightstand. Two years go by. I had finished my current read and was desperate for something else to tide me over until the ...

Cryptography, the science of secret writing,

3 reviews
Laurence Dwight Smith

W. W. Norton & Company, inc, 1943

An excellent introduction to cryptograhpy
This is an excellent beginners' book. It has clear demonstrations of early cryptograhpic methods and how they are solved. Each method is accompanied with a set of problems which are well designed to give beginners some decryption skills.

Confessions of a Recovering Preppie

4 reviews

BookSurge, 2007

Funny and amusing
Confessions of a Recovering Preppie, the autobiography of cryptographer Michael de Mare, is less of an inside look at technical secrets than an overview of his life. The author mixes such diversities as The Big 80s, military service, computer science, conferences and travel plans, laced with enough stringent observation of preppie behavior to make a modern day Margaret Mead happy. Here we ...

Decrypted Secrets

5 reviews
Friedrich L. Bauer

Springer, 2002

Superb!
This is an amazing book, and relatively inexpensive; Springer-Verlag has done it again. Rather than being a dry recitation of encryption and cryptanalysis schemes, Bauer provides a great deal of information about what actually goes wrong when one tries to construct a cipher that must be used under pressure by non-cryptologists, with plenty of historical examples to illustrate his points. And he ...

Secure XML: The New Syntax for Signatures and Encryption

8 reviews
Donald E. Eastlake, Kitty Niles

Pearson Education, 2002

XML and cryptography?
Suppose you have XML data that you want to regularly send to Bob, across the Internet. But it is of a confidential nature, so you don't want to send it as plaintext. Well, you can try using low level encryptions, like SSL or TLS. But these don't give any authentication, ie. Bob can't tell that you actually sent them. Also, once Bob gets the messages, they are all in plaintext, so he can't easily ...

Disappearing Cryptography, Second Edition - Information Hiding: Steganography and Watermarking (The Morgan ...

6 reviews
Peter Wayner

Morgan Kaufmann, 2002

One year after purchase, I keep opening this book
All in all just a fascinating book on a fascinating topic. In general, the introductory parts of each chapter are accessible to anyone with a standard 12 year education. The mathematics are best understood by people with a background in algebra and statistics at the American High School level, but not much more. If you buy this book, expect John Ashcroft to put your name on a list of people ...

Firewalls: The Complete Reference

5 reviews
Keith Strassberg, Gary Rollie, ...

McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media, 2002

An IT department's dream
This reference manual provides a clear and easy to use comprehensive guide to the various products on the market, and the advantages of each with respect to the platforms on which we operate our systems. Since heading up my company's IT department I have been looking for a resource like this to answer all of my questions regarding the installation and structure of firewalls.

Cryptography: A Primer

5 reviews
Alan G. Konheim

John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1981

Excellent, but with a few minor gaps
Konheim tried in 1981 to do what Helen Gaines tried to do in 1939; to provide a basic working knowledge of the state of the art in cryptology to people with little or no previous knowledge. By and large, Konheim succeeded admirably. He had to overcome two major hurdles. By 1981 the amount known in the public domain about cryptology was very large: too large for a modest-sized book like this. And ...

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