Burnett, Steve.

RSA Security's official guide to cryptography. / Official guide to cryptography Steve Burnett and Stephen Paine. - Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University ed. - New York : McGraw-Hill/Osborne, c2004 - xxi, 501 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

Contents: Why cryptography? -- Symmetric-key cryptography -- Symmetric-key management -- The Key distribution problem and public-key cryptography -- The Digital signature -- Public-key infrastructures and the X.509 standards -- Network and transport security protocols -- Application-layer security protocols -- Hardware solutions: overcoming software limitations -- Digital signatures: beyond security -- Doing it wrong: the break-ins -- Doing it right: following standards -- Appendix A: Bits, bytes, hex, and ASCII -- Appendix B: A Layman's guide to a subset of ASN. 1, BER, and DER -- Appendix C: Further technical details -- Appendix D: Chapter review.

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Computer networks
Data encryption (Computer science)
Cryptography.

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