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There's a pretty good section on this in Applied Cryptography. Still an incredible book for a field that supposedly moves pretty fast.
by Blackthorn 4y ago
There's a pretty good section on this in Applied Cryptography. Still an incredible book for a field that supposedly moves pretty fast.
- adastra22 4y agoFor explaining the concepts, maybe. Please don’t implement any protocols from that book!
- tptacek 4y agoIt's pretty bad on the concepts, too. There are good books on the concepts that won't blow your head off; two of them are JP Aumasson's "Serious Cryptography" and David Wong's "Real World Cryptography".
- unnouinceput 4y agoCan you give an example of such a bad concept explained in Applied Cryptography vs Serious Cryptography? Because, out of curiosity, I just downloaded both books, skimmed on both of them (having read in the past Applied Cryptography it took me less time for it of course) through first chapters (classic crypto, randomness and RSA chapters) and found that they are very similar. So, again, do you have a proof of your statement or are you just another Schneier hater?
- adastra22 4y agoI don't remember there being anything downright wrong in Applied Cryptography, at least at the time it was published, although it doesn't convey a lot of the nuance that is required in implementing secure systems. But it now 30 years out of date.
- tptacek 4y agohttps://sockpuppet.org/blog/2013/07/22/applied-practical-cryptography/ https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2013/07/22/applied-practical-cry... Even Schneier himself wouldn't make the claim you just did.
- tptacek 4y agoIt's a good almanac. It's never been a good reference. It's extremely outdated now, and has been for at least a decade and a half.