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Chris Peterson has created a highly pragmatic guide for all those who want to enjoy the benefits of the Internet but are concerned about maintaining their privacy. Peterson examines the trade-offs, showing how properly shared information can provide you with important services, from enhancing your health care to protecting you from criminal activity. The flip side, however, is that erroneous information can prevent you from finding employment, deny you credit, or even bring you into conflict with law enforcement. Individuals can use Peterson's information to determine how much personal information they are willing to divulge. Peterson also shows how to watch for online scams and how to deal with the possibility of erroneous information. Sev... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Modern asymmetric (or "public") key cryptography uses mathematical operations that are fairly easy to do in one direction, but extremely hard to do in reverse. The standard example used (indeed, the one that is almost synonymous with public key encryption) is that of factoring. Given two large prime numbers, it is a straightforward task to multiply them together and find the resulting multiplicand. However, given a large number that is a product of two large prime factors, it is extremely difficult to find those two primes. Elliptic curves have a similar property. A characteristic of an elliptic curve is that any two points on the curve can be "added," and the resulting point will also be on the curve. However, it is difficult, given... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Cryptography isn't all there is to security. But rendering information unintelligible to those without the proper key usually plays a big role in any networked data-sharing system. Java Cryptography shows the Java programmer (with or without crypto experience) how to implement ciphers, keys, and other data-obscuring techniques in Java. The Java language includes lots of classes that are designed to facilitate cryptography, and this book explores them in depth. Key management classes, random-number generators, signed applets, and other parts of the Java security mechanism get attention in these pages. But most interesting are the author's examples. He has written a complete implementation of the ElGamal cipher as a provider in the framework... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Netlaw is designed to keep Net users out of trouble. Longtime online legal expert Lance Rose takes some of the thorny legal issues that arise for users of online services, and offers reasonable, rational assessments of copyright, precedents, laws, individual rights, and risks of all kinds of online activity. In many cases, of course, there simply are no precedents to the legal tangles one might uncover on the Net. Rose nicely summarizes what is possible and probable legally in the many gray areas. It's not a bad idea to be aware of the legal issues just out of principle, but if you're actively engaged in conducting business on the Web, preparing and distributing online content, or similar activities, you'll find this book an objective guid... Rest of this review on the detail page
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The Official PGP User's Guide is the user's manual for PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) public-key cryptography software (v.2.6), freely available over the Internet, that has become the de facto standard for the encryption of electronic mail and data. PGP and its author Philip Zimmermann are the focus of national and international debates concerning this new, powerful "envelope" that allows individuals the same privacy in communications as enjoyed by governments and large corporations. Because cryptography is considered a munition by the U.S. government and is thus subject to the same export restrictions as tanks and submarines, the worldwide distribution of PGP over the Internet has raised a host of issues that are addressed in the User's Guide. ... Rest of this review on the detail page
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