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Cryptography for Developers

by Tom St Denis

December 2006

Intermediate to advanced

400 pages

11h 18m

English

Syngress

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IntroductionThreat ModelsWhat Is Cryptography?Asset ManagementCommon WisdomDeveloper ToolsSummaryOrganization

Overview of ASN.1ASN.1 SyntaxASN.1 Data TypesImplementationPutting It All Together
IntroductionMeasuring EntropyHow Bad Can It Be?RNG DesignPRNG AlgorithmsPutting It All Together
IntroductionImplementationPractical AttacksChaining ModesPutting It All Together
IntroductionDesigns of SHS and ImplementationPKCS #5 Key DerivationPutting It All TogetherPKCS #5 Example
IntroductionSecurity GuidelinesStandardsCipher Message Authentication CodeHash Message Authentication CodePutting It All Together
IntroductionDesign and ImplementationPutting It All Together
IntroductionWhat Are BigNums?The AlgorithmsPutting It All Together
IntroductionGoals of Public Key CryptographyRSA Public Key CryptographyElliptic Curve CryptographyPutting It All Together

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Lead Author

Tom St Denis is a software developer known best for his LibTom series of public domain cryptographic libraries. He has spent the last five years distributing, developing, and supporting the cause of open source cryptography, and has championed its safe deployment. Tom currently is employed for Elliptic Semiconductor Inc. where he designs and develops software libraries for embedded systems. He works closely with a team of diverse hardware engineers to create a best of breed hardware and software combination.

Tom is also the author (with Greg Rose) of BigNum Math: Implementing Cryptographic Multiple Precision Arithmetic (Syngress Publishing, ISBN: 1-59749-112-8), which discusses the deployment of crypytographic integer mathematics. ...