Re: Book on cryptography for programmers

At 03:38 PM 8/10/00, Michael Paul Johnson wrote: >In case you haven't figured it out, yes, I am seriously contemplating >writing such a book. There's certainly a need for defensive programming books oriented towards security functions, and crypto functions in particular. On the other hand, th

Re: What would you like to see in a book on cryptography for programmers?

>On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Michael Paul Johnson wrote: >> What would you like to see covered in a practical book on cryptography for >> programmers? - Some fundamentals of groups and fields. - Provide all your code examples on the web. At 03:37 PM 8/10/00 -0400, dmolnar wrote: &

Re: Book on cryptography for programmers

At 03:02 PM 8/11/00 -0400, John R Levine wrote: >All of the discussion of algorithms is fine, but it seems to me that the most >important topic in such a book is how to avoid building yet another crypto >system with a ten-ton steel door and a cardboard back wall. I would include >some horror stor

Re: Book on cryptography for programmers

At 04:00 PM 8/11/00 -0400, dmolnar wrote: >On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, John R Levine wrote: > >> * Don't try to invent a new crypto systems. Amateurs can't write secure >> crypto systems, as often as not professionals can't either. > >By the way, I would extend this to include "don't try to write you

Re: Book on cryptography for programmers

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, John R Levine wrote: > * Don't try to invent a new crypto systems. Amateurs can't write secure > crypto systems, as often as not professionals can't either. By the way, I would extend this to include "don't try to write your own new crypto code, unless you really, really

Re: Book on cryptography for programmers

> In case you haven't figured it out, yes, I am seriously contemplating > writing such a book. Please keep the good ideas coming. Oh, good. All of the discussion of algorithms is fine, but it seems to me that the most important topic in such a book is how to avoid building yet another crypto sy

Book on cryptography for programmers

Thank you for the good comments, so far. In case you haven't figured it out, yes, I am seriously contemplating writing such a book. Please keep the good ideas coming. I need someone who is crypto-literate to help review what I write, to help keep me honest, point out stuff I may have missed, a

Re: What would you like to see in a book on cryptography for programmers?

On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Michael Paul Johnson wrote: > What would you like to see covered in a practical book on cryptography for > programmers? > * Practical random number generation -- /dev/random, entropy gathering daemon, Yarrow, etc. Some examples of bad random number genera

What would you like to see in a book on cryptography for programmers?

What would you like to see covered in a practical book on cryptography for programmers?