Practical Cryptology & Web Security
By P.K. Yuen
October 2005
Pearson Education
Distrubuted by Trans-Atlantic Publications Inc.
ISBN: 9780321263339
896 pages, Illustrated
$137.00 Paper Original
Description
Security is now the number one concern for businesses world wide. The gold standard for attaining security is cryptography; it provides the most reliable tools for storing or transmitting digital information.
This is the first textbook showing students how to implement cryptography and incorporate it into real-world systems on the Web.
Contents1. Basic security skills on the World Wide Web
2. Cryptology,
Website Protection And Attacks
3. One-Way Encryptions, Hash Functions, And
Message Digests
4. Some strong symmetric-key ciphers
5. Practical software-based stream ciphers
6.Block ciphers with variable
key-lengths
7. Encryption and server skills
for web page protection
8. Practical public-key
security and digital signatures
9. Security applications
with GnuPG, Winpt and server techniques
10.
SSL security, applications, and XML contracts
Features
- A practical focus helping students master security skills step-by-step.
- 50 worked examples.
- Reports of recent security breaches.
- Plenty of practical tips and tricks.
- Examines how to: - protect a website against viruses - encrypt emails - build secure databases - perform secure business transactions on the web
- Works from a problem-solving perspective, showing how to implement technology solutions.
- Looks from the attacker’s point of view at possible challenges to security.
- Shows how every algorithm discussed can be used within a real-world context
Additional Support Material
- Author hosted website containing PowerPoint slides and code for all the examples discussed in the book.
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