Practical Cryptography.(Book Review)

Security Management, September, 2003 by Rothke, Ben

By Nick Ferguson and Bruce Schneier; published by John Wiley and Sons, 877/76)-2974 (phone), 800/597-3299 (fax), www.wiley.com (Web); 432 pages; $50.

As Mark Twain acidulously remarked, "A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read." Bruce Schneier's Applied Cryptography, published in 1996, is a classic in the canon of computer security works; it's a seminal, important book for the experts in the field or for those with the technical background, but it is far too complex and mathematical for most readers.

Enter Practical Cryptography, Schneier's (and coauthor Niels Ferguson's) guide for the rest of us. It is a superb text for anyone who needs to understand the core details of cryptography but who has neither the...

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