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Re: Beginners books on security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay D. Dyson)
Fri Jun 16 12:20:40 2000
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 08:57:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Jay D. Dyson" <javaj@pacificnet.net>
To: Cryptography <cryptography@c2.net>
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On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Ben Laurie wrote:
> I was asked to recommend boks on security/crypto/copy protection for the
> non-tekky and realised I had no idea at all! Does anyone out there have
> suggestions?
I scarcely know of a book that even remotely attempts to tackle
those issues without going into some technical detail. However, the books
that I recommend to newly-interested parties that start out at a "light"
level and then get serious are as follows.
For a broad overview, I generally recommend:
"Computer Security Basics," Russell & Gangemi - O'Reilly Books
For practical information:
"Practical Unix & Internet Security," Garfinkel & Spafford -
O'Reilly Books.
"Internet Cryptography," Smith, Rick - Addison Wesley
"PGP: Pretty Good Privacy," Garfinkel - O'Reilly Books
-Jay
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