Beginning Cryptography with Java

by David Hook

Beginning Cryptography with JavaWhile cryptography can still be a controversial topic in the programming community, Java has weathered that storm and provides a rich set of APIs that allow you, the developer, to effectively include cryptography in applications-if you know how.This book teaches you how. Chapters one through five cover the architecture of the JCE and JCA, symmetric and asymmetric key encryption in Java, message authentication codes, and how to create Java implementations with the API provided by the Bouncy Castle ASN.1 packages, all with plenty of examples. Building on that foundation, the second half of the book takes you into higher-level topics, enabling you to create and implement secure Java applications and make use of standard protocols such as CMS, SSL, and S/MIME.What you will learn from this bookHow to understand and use JCE, JCA, and the JSSE for encryption and authenticationThe ways in which padding mechanisms work in ciphers and how to spot and fix typical errorsAn understanding of how authentication mechanisms are implemented in Java and why they are usedMethods for describing cryptographic objects with ASN.1How to create certificate revocation lists and use the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP)Real-world Web solutions using Bouncy Castle APIsWho this book is forThis book is for Java developers who want to use cryptography in their applications or to understand how cryptography is being used in Java applications. Knowledge of the Java language is necessary, but you need not be familiar with any of the APIs discussed.Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

484 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 19, 2005

About the author

Prof David Hook completed his Oxford DPhil thesis under the supervision of Professor Sir Peter Russell. He successively held a personal chair in Medieval Spanish Studies at King’s College London, then the chair of Hispanic Studies at Bristol until 2010. Since February 2011 he has been Associate Director of Dr Juan-Carlos Conde’s Magdalen Medieval Iberian Studies Seminar (for which he edits the ‘Manuscript News’ sections of its website); he has been a Faculty Research Fellow at Oxford since June 2011, and is one of the co-ordinators of the ‘Translations in Transnational Contexts’ interdisciplinary research network. A volume of essays in his honour was published by the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, New York, in November 2013: Text, Manuscript and Print in Medieval and Modern Iberia: Studies in Honour of David Hook, edited by Barry Taylor, Geoffrey West, and Jane Whetnall, xxi + 432 pp. His next major publication will be a study and catalogue of the Hispanic, Portuguese, and Latin American manuscripts of Sir Thomas Phillipps.

Reviews

[Joanne · Rating 1 out of 5]

He explained the java code behind cryptography, but that doesn't help a beginner, the target audience for this book, who doesn't know when or where or why you'd use that java code. Didn't explain in understandable terms what cryptography is and where it applies.

[Hasan Kavi]

nothing.