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According to the preface, this book is aimed at non-specialists who need to know just enough about cryptography to make informed technical decisions. As an example, Smith suggests systems administrators and managers who, while not formally charged with security, still have to use cryptographic techniques to secure their networks or transmissions. Chapter one is an introduction, contrasting what we want; secure communications; with the environment we have to work in; a wide open Internet. The text also looks at the balance that must be maintained between convenience and requirements. Encryption basics, in chapter two, presents the concepts of symmetric cryptography, use, and choice. There is a clear explanation of the ideas without ove... Rest of this review on the detail page
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When certain technical people find out that I am involved in data security, they assert an interest in cryptography, and an intention to write a cryptographic program sometime. While I not wish to disparage this goal, questioning of the individual's background in mathematics tends to point out that the task is harder than they might have foreseen. The magic phrase "number theory" is usually the dividing line. For those who make it past that limit, I am going to recommend that they get Koblitz's work. Not that I am implying that this book is more demanding than it needs to be: only that the topic itself is a difficult one. This is the heart of cryptology: the underlying foundations that make it work. The material presented does not ad... Rest of this review on the detail page
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If the National Security Agency (NSA) had wanted to make sure that strong encryption would reach the masses, it couldn't have done much better than to tell the cranky geniuses of the world not to do it. Author Steven Levy, deservedly famous for his enlightening Hackers, tells the story of the cypherpunks, their foes, and their allies in Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government. From the determined research of Whitfield Diffie and Marty Hellman, in the face of the NSA's decades-old security lock, to the commercial world's turn-of-the-century embrace of encrypted e-commerce, Levy finds drama ... Rest of this review on the detail page
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In Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias, Peter Ludlow extends the approach he used so successfully in High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, offering a collection of writings that reflects the eclectic nature of the online world, as well as its tremendous energy and creativity. This time the subject is the emergence of governance structures within online communities and the visions of political sovereignty shaping some of those communities. Ludlow views virtual communities as laboratories for conducting experiments in the construction of new societies and governance structures. While many online experiments will fail, Ludlow argues that given the synergy of th... Rest of this review on the detail page
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