Beginning Cryptography with Java

by David Hook

New

448 pages, Paperback

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.