RE: Crypto Book Recommendations?

From: Matej Pfajfar (Matej.Pfajfar_at_adacta.si)
Date: 03/04/04

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    Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 08:57:46 +0100
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     Graydon,

    A few title come to mind - the first one is of course Schneier's Applied
    Cryptography, which is a good all-round overview of cryptography.
    Then there is Stinson's Cryptography: Theory and practice. A good
    overview of security in general is Ross Anderson's Security Engineering
    - it's not focused
    on cryptography in particular, but it contains the basics of symmetric
    ciphers and public-key crypto.

    HTH,

    Mat

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Graydon McKee [mailto:graydon.s.mckee.iv@orcmacro.com]
    Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 7:12 PM
    To: security-basics@lists.securityfocus.com
    Subject: Crypto Book Recommendations?

    Does anyone have any good recommendations for books on Cryptography
    especially geared towards
    beginners? I have a few titles in mind already, I just don't want to
    leave out any good one's if I
    can help it. Thanks

    Graydon S McKee IV - GSEC
    Firewall/Security Administrator
    ORC Macro - Macro International
    11785 Beltsville Drive
    Calverton, Maryland 20705
    301-572-0583 Fax: 301-572-0982
     

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Paul Osterwald [mailto:paul@awesometickets.net]
    Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 4:07 PM
    To: 'Murad Talukdar'; security-basics@lists.securityfocus.com
    Subject: RE: book for a newbie...?

    Murad, et al...

    Your best investment comes from New Riders publishing. They have a
    series
    of books focused on security mostly from and or by/overseen Stephen
    Northcutt. Network Intrusion Detection will teach you all about reading
    "the wire". Intrusion Signatures and Analysis will help you learn more
    and
    Network Perimeter Security is a good primer...

    Lots of luck.

    Paul Osterwald

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Murad Talukdar [mailto:talukdar_m@subway.com]
    Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 18:25
    To: security-basics@lists.securityfocus.com
    Subject: book for a newbie...?

    Back when you were a security nipper playing with netstat and gurgling =
    at the sight of portscans on your fisher price server, which book did =
    you use to learn security basics from?
    I've inherited a 50 node network and am just getting into learning how =
    to secure it.
    Any suggestions gratefully accepted.
    Murad

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