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Titolo: Cerco consigli su libri

Qualcuno sa consigliarmi qualche buon libro o qualche buon autore per un
libro sulla crittografia in generale?
Qualcosa che insomma ne spieghi le basi fino ad arrivare al DES, RSA, PGP,
ecc...
Magari che sia anche recente...
Vanno bene anche testi in inglese...
Grazie.
madmaniac

Presi direttamente dalla documentazione di PGP, in lingua inglese, per
tutti i gusti.
ciao
Igor
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Non-Technical and beginning technical books
- Cryptography for the Internet, by Philip R. Zimmermann. Scientific
American, October 1998. This article, written by PGP’s creator, is a
tutorial on various cryptographic protocols and algorithms, many of
which happen to be used by PGP.
- Privacy on the Line, by Whitfield Diffie and Susan Eva Landau. MIT
Press; ISBN: 0262041677. This book is a discussion of the history and
policy surrounding cryptography and communications security. It is an
excellent read, even for beginners and non-technical people, and
contains information that even a lot of experts don't know.
- The Codebreakers, by David Kahn. Scribner; ISBN: 0684831309. This
book is a history of codes and code breakers from the time of the
Egyptians to the end of WWII. Kahn first wrote it in the sixties, and
published a revised edition in 1996. This book won't teach you
anything about how cryptography is accomplished, but it has been the
inspiration of the whole modern generation of cryptographers.
- Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World, by
Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman, and Mike Spencer. Prentice Hall; ISBN:
0-13-061466-1. This is a good description of network security systems
and protocols, including descriptions of what works, what doesn't
work, and why. Published in 1995, it doesn't have many of the latest
technological advances, but is still a good book. It also contains one
of the most clear descriptions of how DES works of any book written.
Intermediate books
- Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C,
byBruce Schneier, John Wiley &Sons; ISBN: 0-471-12845-7. This is a
good beginning technical book on howa lot of cryptography works. If
you want to become an expert, this is the place to start.
- Handbook of Applied Cryptography, byAlfredJ.Menezes,PaulC.van
Oorschot, and Scott Vanstone. CRC Press; ISBN: 0-8493-8523-7. This is
the technical book you should read after Schneier’s book. There is a
lot of heavy-duty math in this book, but it is nonetheless usable for
those who do not understand the math.
- Internet Cryptography, by Richard E. Smith. Addison-Wesley Pub Co;
ISBN: 0201924803. This book describes how many Internet security
protocols work. Most importantly, it describes how systems that are
designed well nonetheless end up with flaws through careless
operation. This book is light on math, and heavy on practical
information.
- Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker, by
William R. Cheswick and Steven M. Bellovin. Addison-Wesley Pub Co;
ISBN: 0201633574. This book is written by two senior researchers at
AT&T Bell Labs and is about their experiences maintaining and
redesigning AT&T's Internet connection. Very readable.
Advanced books (solo per chi mastica matematica pesante)
- A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography, by Neal Koblitz.
Springer-Verlag; ISBN: 0-387-94293-9. An excellent graduate-level
mathematics textbook on number theory and cryptography.
- Differential Cryptanalysis of the Data Encryption Standard, by Eli
Biham and Adi Shamir. Springer-Verlag; ISBN: 0-387-97930-1. This book
describes the technique of differential cryptanalysis as applied to
DES. It is an excellent book for learning about this technique.

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