Cryptography and Network Security (4th Edition)

Author - William Stallings ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Hardcover Book item from Prentice Hall was reviewed on 25-Oct-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book Cryptography and Network Security (4th Edition) by Prentice Hall. An easy to read book on cryptography and security. Stallings illustrates concepts well, with lots of examples. If you´re after mathematical depth, this book is not for you. This book is more about high level ideas and concepts.¤

2) Hardcover Book Cryptography and Network Security (4th Edition) by Prentice Hall. There has never been a more poorly written book, to my knowledge. The subject matter is fascinating and it is hard to imagine a less well-executed explanation of this material. It is difficult to count how many times that concepts are introduced and explained with statements that begin "It is obvious that..." - I´ve got news for the author, not much of those things are obvious, and smaller books explain the same material in much clearer and accessible language. I personally prefer the writings of Bruce Schneier on the subject. The rough thing is, the professor of the class I´m taking picked this for the textbook... I´ve had to download errata, search out information online, and buy other books to try to cover the material. One of the exercises is to brute-force attack a misprinted encrypted message, and one has to know to go to the author´s website to download the corrected ciphertext. That totally sucks in an $80 book.¤

3) Hardcover Book Cryptography and Network Security (4th Edition) by Prentice Hall. This book is terrible. I am forced to read it for class and it´s simply awful. If you want to learn cryptography get ´Applied Cryptography´ by Bruce Schneier.¤

4) Hardcover Book Cryptography and Network Security (4th Edition) by Prentice Hall. OK, this book has received prizes and stellar reviews here and elsewhere but personally I didn´t like it very much. First, the text and the exercises lack mathematical depth. There are entire chapters, such as the one on AES, which add hardly anything to the official standard, and the book explanation is often harder to understand, and especially more ambiguous than the official standard of the protocols it is supposed to explain.
On the other hand, it is a relatively "polished" book, without too many errors or typos. Most of the time, it gives gives enough information to implement the algorithms it talks about. But it certainly doesn´t give you enough to become a cryptographer, or to evaluate the security of a new algorithm, or things like that.¤

5) Hardcover Book Cryptography and Network Security (4th Edition) by Prentice Hall. I found the material mostly interesting if not occassionaly difficult to read. However, I found it infurating that the review questions and problems asked at the end of the chapters, could not be answered based on the materials in the chapters.

Nothing like setting you up for a fall. This isn´t unique to this book, it seems a trend in most text books these days. It reflects poorly on the material, the publisher, and the author. You´d think an instructional book, would endeavor to provide its students with the tools necessary to answer the questions asked, instead of asking questions that the material doesn´t cover.

Really piss poor.¤

6) Hardcover Book Cryptography and Network Security (4th Edition) by Prentice Hall.

In this age of viruses and hackers, of electronic eavesdropping and electronic fraud, security is paramount. This solid, up-to-date tutorial is a comprehensive treatment of cryptography and network security is ideal for self-study. Explores the basic issues to be addressed by a network security capability through a tutorial and survey of cryptography and network security technology. Examines the practice of network security via practical applications that have been implemented and are in use today. Provides a simplified AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) that enables readers to grasp the essentials of AES more easily. Features block cipher modes of operation, including the CMAC mode for authentication and the CCM mode for authenticated encryption. Includes an expanded, updated treatment of intruders and malicious software. A useful reference for system engineers, programmers, system managers, network managers, product marketing personnel, and system support specialists.

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