From owner-freebsd-security Mon Sep 17 22:40:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail.halplant.com (24-168-203-47.wo.cox.rr.com [24.168.203.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FAB037B42F for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 22:40:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.halplant.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 60B221FBC; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 01:40:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 01:40:07 -0400 From: Andrew J Caines To: FreeBSD Security Subject: Re: US Congress already discussing bans on strong crypto Message-ID: <20010918014007.D18196@hal9000.servehttp.com> Reply-To: Andrew J Caines Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Security References: <3BA6C281.0001FF.04743@frodo.searchcanada.ca> <20010917224629.E19035-100000@achilles.silby.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010917224629.E19035-100000@achilles.silby.com>; from silby@silby.com on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:49:19PM -0500 Organization: H.A.L. Plant X-Powered-by: FreeBSD 4.4-RC X-PGP-Fingerprint: C59A 2F74 1139 9432 B457 0B61 DDF2 AA61 67C3 18A1 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Silbersack said: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Michael Richards wrote: > > I've heard this book talked about a lot. > Applied Crypto is basically a text book on crypto algorithms. [snip] > So, if you're looking to learn about the history of crypto, get the former > book. If you're implementing some crypto system, get the latter. I strongly recommend "Secrets and Lies - Digital Security in a Networked World" by Bruce Schneier, author of the legendary "Applied Cryptography". This book is by far the best book on systems security in the most general sense, including cryptography. It's completely accessible to the lay audience, intelligent, insightful and never patronising even to a know-it-all such as myself. Note that his preface to the book begins with.. "I have written this book partly to correct a mistake" ..where the mistake was "Applied Cryptography". If I were to choose a single text as required reading before being allowed to use a networked computer, then this would be it. -Andrew- -- _______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@halplant.com | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | | safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message