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Java Security

By Scott Oaks
First Edition May 1998
Pages: 469
ISBN 10: 1-56592-403-7 | ISBN 13: 9781565924031
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This essential Java 2 book covers Java's security mechanisms and teaches you how to work with them. It discusses class loaders, security managers, access lists, digital signatures, and authentication and shows how to use these to create and enforce your own security policy.
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Java's most striking claim is that it provides a secure programming environment. However, despite lots of discussion, few people understand precisely what Java's claims mean and how it backs up those claims. Java Security is an in-depth exploration aimed at developers, network administrators, and anyone who needs to work with or understand Java's security mechanisms. It discusses in detail what security does and doesn't mean, what Java's default security policies are, and how to create and implement your own policies. In doing so, Java Security provides detailed coverage of security managers, class loaders, the access controller, and much of the java.security package. It discusses message digests, certificates, and digital signatures, showing you how to use Java's facilities for signing classes or to implement your own signature facility. It shows you how to write a class loader that recognizes signed classes, verifies the signature, and cooperates with a security manager to grant additional privileges. It also discusses the problem of managing cryptographic keys and shows you how to implement your own key management systems. Java Security is an essential book for everyone using Java in real-world software. If you're deploying software written in Java, you need to know how to grant your classes the privileges they need, without granting privileges to untrusted classes. You need to know how to protect your systems against intrusion and corruption. Java provides the tools; this book shows you how to use them.

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Java Security Review, January 01 2001

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Submitted by N R Krishnan [Respond | View]

Covers all areas of Java security needed for a developer.

A very handful book for quick reference.

Java Security Review, July 27 2000

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Submitted by Manoj jayadevan [Respond | View]

The best book on Java security in the market . Assumes that the reader has a fair understanding of Java programming. Provides clear differences between Java 1.1 and Java 2 models . Exhaustive coverage of basic java principles like built in language security features and byte code verification.

Good examples on class loaders . Covers various security managers ex AppletSecurity Manager ,
RMI Security manager . Provides solid foundation for features like code signing , digital signatures, encryption etc. In a nutshell , book for security enthsiasts.

Java Security Review, June 06 2000

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Submitted by Dragon999 [Respond | View]

Well, this book is quite detailed but confusing. I don't like the structure. And I don't think this book is your first book to learn about Java 2 security features.
However, I do recommend this book. It makes you to think and analyze! Read this book after you read a chapter or two in other books or or stuff in JavaSoft's homepage!

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Java Security Review, February 02 1999
Submitted by Juan Tuboneya [Respond | View]

This book is little more than an API guide, and it isn't a very good one at that.

It should have provided a broad view of Java security issues both for the programmer and the end user. Instead, it's only useful to people who can't read documentation.

I just got my copy of "Securing Java" from Amazon.com, and it seems like it's what this O'Reilly book should have been. Go get that instead!!!!

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