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Overview
Covering classical cryptography, modern cryptography, and steganography, this volume details how data can be kept secure and private. Each topic is presented and explained by describing various methods, techniques, and algorithms. Moreover, there are numerous helpful examples to reinforce the reader's understanding and expertise with these techniques and methodologies.
Features & Benefits:
* Incorporates both data encryption and data hiding
* Supplies a wealth of exercises and solutions to help readers readily understand the material
* Presents information in an accessible, nonmathematical style
* Concentrates on specific methodologies that readers can choose from and pursue, for their data-security needs and goals
* Describes new topics, such as the advanced encryption standard (Rijndael), quantum cryptography, and elliptic-curve cryptography.
The book, with its accessible style, is an essential companion for all security practitioners and professionals who need to understand and effectively use both information hiding and encryption to protect digital data and communications. It is also suitable for self-study in the areas of programming, software engineering, and security.
Synopsis
Covering classical cryptography, modern cryptography, and steganography, this volume details how data can be kept secure and private. Each topic is presented and explained by describing various methods, techniques, and algorithms. Moreover, there are numerous helpful examples to reinforce the reader's understanding and expertise with these techniques and methodologies.
Features & Benefits:
* Incorporates both data encryption and data hiding
* Supplies a wealth of exercises and solutions to help readers readily understand the material
* Presents information in an accessible, nonmathematical style
* Concentrates on specific methodologies that readers can choose from and pursue, for their data-security needs and goals
* Describes new topics, such as the advanced encryption standard (Rijndael), quantum cryptography, and elliptic-curve cryptography.
The book, with its accessible style, is an essential companion for all security practitioners and professionals who need to understand and effectively use both information hiding and encryption to protect digital data and communications. It is also suitable for self-study in the areas of programming, software engineering, and security.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewSecuring your data is absolutely essential for doing business in the network-intensive environment you find yourself in today. If you are going to store your data, you must protect it from any sort of theft or abuse; and this is the book to show you how. There are time-tested, tried-and-true methods, as well as new methods, available to keep your data private -- and they are all thoroughly addressed in this excellent volume.
For example, the introduction tells the story of the Zimmermann telegram to illustrate the effect secret codes and code breaking can have on important historical events. Chapter 1 discusses monoalphabetic substitution ciphers, where each symbol is replaced by another symbol and the replacement (substitution) rule does not vary. Next, Chapter 2 is devoted to transposition ciphers. Polyalphabetic substitution ciphers are the topic of Chapter 3. A polyalphabetic substitution cipher can be made absolutely secure through the use of a one-time pad based on random numbers, so Chapter 4 is a survey of random numbers, methods for generating both true and pseudo-random numbers, and statistical tests for randomness. Chapter 5 is devoted to mechanical (or electromechanical) rotor encryption machines, specifically to the most famous of them, the German Enigma. Next, Chapters 6, 7, and 8 discuss modern cryptography. So, does the future belong to quantum cryptography? This question is the topic of Chapter 9, where the principles of this esoteric field are explained. Finally, steganography, the topic of Chapters 10 through 12, represents a different approach to privacy.
So, whether you are already responsible for data security and need to keep current with new methods and approaches, or whether you are moving into this arena and want to jump-start your own skill level, this outstanding book is the place to turn. Why? Because cryptography is very important and popular today -- it scrambles your data, making it unreadable and thereby providing privacy for the future! John Vacca
John Vacca, the former computer security official (CSO) for NASA's space station program (Freedom), has written 38 books about advanced storage, computer security, and aerospace technology.