Security and Cryptography

  1. PGP: Pretty Good Privacy, Simson Garfinkel. O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA, U.S.A., 1995. ISBN 1-56592-098-8.

  2. The Official PGP User's Guide, Philip R. Zimmermann. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 1995. ISBN 0-262-74017-6.

  3. Practical UNIX & Internet Security, Third Edition, Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford, and Alan Schwartz. O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA, U.S.A., 2003. ISBN 0-596-00323-4.

  4. SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition, Daniel J. Barrett, Richard E. Silverman, and Robert G. Byrnes. O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol, CA, U.S.A., 2005. ISBN 0-596-00895-3.

  5. Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World, Bruce Schneier. Wiley, New York, NY, U.S.A., 2000. ISBN 0-471-25311-1.

    This book is an outstanding exposition for every world citizen of the implications of computer security on their lives, their data, and their personal freedom. Bruce Schneier, like Brian Kernighan, Jon Bentley, and Donald Knuth, is one of those authors who is always worth reading.

  6. The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots, to Quantum Cryptography, Simon Singh. Doubleday, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1999. ISBN 0-385-49531-5.

  7. Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, Second Edition, Bruce Schneier. Wiley, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1996. ISBN 0-471-12845-7 (hardcover), 0-471-11709-9 (paperback).

  8. Cryptographic Security Architecture: Design and Verification, Peter Gutmann. Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, U.S.A., 2004. ISBN 0-387-95387-6.

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