Practical cryptography / Niels Ferguson and Bruce Schneier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferguson, Niels.

Contributor:

Schneier, Bruce, 1963-

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cryptography.

Computer security.

Physical Description:

xx, 410 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Wiley, 2003.

Summary:

Security is the number one concern for businesses worldwide. The gold standard for attaining security is cryptography because it provides the most reliable tools for storing or transmitting digital information. Written by Niels Ferguson, lead cryptographer for Counterpane, Bruce Schneier's security company, and Bruce Schneier himself, this is the much anticipated follow-up book to Schneier's seminal encyclopedic reference, Applied Cryptography, Second Edition (0-471-11709-9), which has sold more than 150,000 copies. Niels Ferguson (Amsterdam, Netherlands) is a cryptographic engineer and consultant at Counterpane Internet Security. He has extensive experience in the creation and design of security algorithms, protocols, and multinational security infrastructures. Previously, Ferguson was a cryptographer for DigiCash and CWI. At CWI he developed the first generation of off-line payment protocols. He has published numerous scientific papers. Bruce Schneier (Minneapolis, MN) is Founder and Chief Technical Officer at Counterpane Internet Security, a managed-security monitoring company. He is also the author of Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World (0-471-25311-1).

Contents:

1 Our Design Philosophy 1

2 The Context of Cryptography 7

3 Introduction to Cryptography 21

I Message Security 41

4 Block Ciphers 43

5 Block Cipher Modes 67

6 Hash Functions 83

7 Message Authentication Codes 97

8 The Secure Channel 111

9 Implementation Issues (I) 129

II Key Negotiation 153

10 Generating Randomness 155

11 Primes 185

12 Diffie-Hellman 207

13 RSA 223

14 Introduction to Cryptographic Protocols 245

15 Key Negotiation Protocol 261

16 Implementation Issues (II) 279

III Key Management 295

17 The Clock 297

18 Key Servers 309

19 The Dream of PKI 315

20 PKI Reality 323

21 PKI Practicalities 339

22 Storing Secrets 347

23 Standards 365

24 Patents 373

25 Involving Experts 381.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-395) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

047122894X

0471223573

OCLC:

85885449