Acknowledgments
My work in information security began when I was in graduate school. I want to thank my thesis advisor, Clyde F. Martin, for introducing me to this fascinating subject.
In my seven years at NSA, I learned more about security than I could have learned in a lifetime anywhere else. From my time in industry, I want to thank Joe Pasqua and Paul Clarke for giving me the chance to work on a fascinating and challenging project.
The following San Jose State University students helped greatly with the first edition: Fiona Wong, Martina Simova, Deepali Holankar, Xufen Gao, Subha Rajagopalan, Neerja Bhatnager, Amit Mathur, Ali Hushyar, Smita Thaker, Puneet Mishra, Jianning Yang, Konstantin Skachkov, Jian Dai, Thomas Nikl, Ikai Lan, Thu Nguyen, Samuel Reed, Yue Wang, David Stillion, Edward Yin, and Randy Fort.
Richard Low, a colleague here at SJSU, provided helpful feedback on an early version of the manuscript. David Blockus (God rest his soul) deserves special mention for providing detailed comments on each chapter at a particularly critical juncture in the writing of the first edition.
For this second edition, many of my SJSU masters students”volunteered” to serve as proofreaders. The following students all contributed their time and energy to correct errors in the manuscript: Naidele Manjunath, Mausami Mungale, Deepti Kundu, Jianrui (Louis) Zhang, Abhishek Shah, Sushant Priyadarshi, Mahim Patel, Lin Huang, Eilbroun Benjamin, Neha Samant, Rashmi Muralidhar, Kenny Zhang, ...
