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Re: Beginners books on security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (EKR)
Fri Jun 16 12:20:38 2000
To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
Cc: Coderpunks <coderpunks@toad.com>, Cryptography <cryptography@c2.net>,
UKCrypto List <ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk>
From: EKR <ekr@rtfm.com>
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In-Reply-To: Ben Laurie's message of "Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:51:37 +0100"
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My favorite would probably be Kaufman and Perlman's
"Network Security: Private Communications in a Public World"
They cover the crypto but are more interested in teaching you
how to think about security. It's all readable by beginners.
-Ekr
