Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World

by Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman, Mike Speciner

The classic guide to cryptography and network security – now fully updated! “Alice and Bob are back!” Widely regarded as the most comprehensive yet comprehensible guide to network security and cryptography, the previous editions of Network Security received critical acclaim for lucid and witty explanations of the inner workings of cryptography and network security protocols. In this edition, the authors have significantly updated and revised the previous content, and added new topics that have become important. This book explains sophisticated concepts in a friendly and intuitive manner. For protocol standards, it explains the various constraints and committee decisions that led to the current designs. For cryptographic algorithms, it explains the intuition behind the designs, as well as the types of attacks the algorithms are designed to avoid. It explains implementation techniques that can cause vulnerabilities even if the cryptography itself is sound. Homework problems deepen your understanding of concepts and technologies, and an updated glossary demystifies the field's jargon. Network Security, Third Edition will appeal to a wide range of professionals, from those who design and evaluate security systems to system administrators and programmers who want a better understanding of this important field. It can also be used as a textbook at the graduate or advanced undergraduate level. Coverage includes Network security protocol and cryptography basics Design considerations and techniques for secret key and hash algorithms (AES, DES, SHA-1, SHA-2, SHA-3) First-generation public key algorithms (RSA, Diffie-Hellman, ECC) How quantum computers work, and why they threaten the first-generation public key algorithms Quantum-safe public key how they are constructed, and optimizations to make them practical Multi-factor authentication of people Real-time communication (SSL/TLS, SSH, IPsec)  New applications (electronic money, blockchains) New cryptographic techniques (homomorphic encryption, secure multiparty computation)  

Genres: Computers, Computer Science, Technology, Programming, Nonfiction

Kindle Edition

First published March 16, 1995

Reviews

[Nick Black · Rating 3 out of 5]

2008-09-24, Amazon, need it to do my CS6262 homework bah. Then again, Radia Perlman is a real American badass, almost certainly the best female networking specialist (who could begin to compete? Sally Floyd maybe?) currently or in history -- Interconnections blew me away, and I'm willing to risk a used purchase with her name on it. We'll see...

btw, "The Radia Perlman Series on Networking and Network Security"? Is that really necessary?

[TK · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book provides an approachable way to understanding and explaining network security.

[Ashlee · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is one of my all-time favorites, probably because I read it right after my first course in group theory and Galois fields and was so excited to see the real-world applications of all the theory I'd been digesting.

I found the writing to be humorous, engaging, and easy to understand.

[RJ]

Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World (2nd Edition) (Radia Perlman Series in Computer Networking and Security) by Charlie Kaufman (2002)

[Love Ly]

introduction of internet key exchange

[Viral]

good one