RSA Security's Official Guide to Cryptography
Published on 16. April 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-0-07-213139-0 (ISBN)
Description
Want to keep your Web site safe? Learn how to implement cryptography, the most secure form of data encryption. Highly accessible, and packed with detailed case studies, this practical guide is written in conjunction with RSA Security--the most trusted name in e-security(tm). Part of the RSA Press Series.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
200 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 185 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
930 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-213139-0 (9780072131390)
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Persons
With degrees in math from Grinnell College in Iowa and The Claremont Graduate School in California, Steve Burnett has spent most of his career converting math into computer programs, first at Intergraph Corporation and now with RSA Security. He is currently the lead crypto engineer for RSA's BSAFE Crypto-C and Crypto-J products, which are general purpose crypto software development kits in C and Java. Burnett is also a frequent speaker at industry events and college campuses.
Stephen Paine (San Mateo, CA) is a Systems Engineer at RSA Security where he explains concepts in security to corporations and developers worldwide. Stephen has worked in the security field for most of his career, first working with the security of digital communications and networks for the United States Marine Corps, as a Security Architect at SUN Microsystems, applying Cryptography and security to their ERP financial systems.
Stephen Paine (San Mateo, CA) is a Systems Engineer at RSA Security where he explains concepts in security to corporations and developers worldwide. Stephen has worked in the security field for most of his career, first working with the security of digital communications and networks for the United States Marine Corps, as a Security Architect at SUN Microsystems, applying Cryptography and security to their ERP financial systems.
Content
Chapter 1: Why Cryptography? Chapter 2: Symmetric-Key Cryptography. Chapter 3: Symmetric-Key Management. Chapter 4: The Key Distribution Problem and Public-Key Cryptography. Chapter 5: The Digital Signature. Chapter 6: Public-Key Infrastructures and the X.509 Standard. Chapter 7: Network and Transport Security Protocols. Chapter 8: Application-Layer Security Protocols. Chapter 9: Hardware Solutions: Overcoming Software Limitations. Chapter 10: Digital Signatures: Beyond Security. Chapter 11: Doing It Wrong: The Break-Ins. Chapter 12: Doing It Right: Following Standards. Appendix A: Bits, Bytes, Hex, and ASCII. Appendix B: A Layman's Guide to a Subset of ASN.1, BER, and DER. Appendix C: Further Technical Details.