RE: Crypto Book Recommendations?

["Ioannis Kampanellis" <ikampa () enst fr>]

Hi!
I would recommend you the "Handbook of applied cryptography".It is
considered as an encyclopedia of cryptography and it's for free!
During my MSc it helped me a lot with the crytpography course.

http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Graydon McKee [mailto:graydon.s.mckee.iv () ORCMacro com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 8:12 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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