Java Cryptography: Tools and Techniques

by David Hook, Jon Eaves

Between the standard Java Runtime and the Bouncy Castle APIs there is a rich tool set of APIs to help work with the maze of standards and protocols needed for secure communication, storage and identity management. This book will help you navigate that maze and shine light into some of the darker corridors.

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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

[Luboš · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read Java Cryptography but it is quite old. So I have been looking for another source. But this book is a disappointment for me. First of all, it should be called something like „Bouncy Castle Recipes“. Written by geeks for geeks. Absolutely a missed opportunity from a didactical point of view since the first chapter speaks about provider signing but I would rather expect a high-level cryptography introduction. I admit bonus points for a section about post-quantum cryptography.
I will try Real-World Cryptography instead.

[Enrique · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very specialized and useful book that helped me to understand and solve a problem about making a CMS object