Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World, 15th Anniversary Edition

Acknowledgments

Oodles of people read this book in various stages of completion. I would like to thank Steve Bass, Susan Greenspan, Chris Hall, John Kelsey, and Mudge, who read an early draft of this book. Their comments helped me shape its final tone and scope. I would also like to thank Beth Friedman, who helped with a major edit about halfway through the completion of this book and minor edits throughout the process, and helped keep both the copyeditor and proofreader in line; Karen Cooper, who helped proofread the book; and Raphael Carter, who helped with a major edit toward the end of the process. And I would like to thank Michael Angelo, Ken Ayer, Steve Bass, David Dyer-Bennet, Ed Bennett, Russell Brand, Karen Cooper, David Cowan, Walt Curtis, Dorothy Denning, Carl Ellison, Andrew Fernandez, Gordon Force, Amy Forsyth, Dean Gahlon, Drew Gross, Gregory Guerin, Peter Gutmann, Mark Hardy, Dave Ihnat, Chris Johnston, James Jorasch, Arjen Lenstra, Stuart McClure, Gary McGraw, Doug Merrill, Jeff Moss, Simona Nass, Artimage Nelson, Peter Neumann, Andrew Odlyzko, Doug Price, James Riordan, Bernard Roussely, Tom Rowley, Avi Rubin, Ryan Russell, Adam Shostack, Simon Singh, Jim Wallner, and Elizabeth Zwicky, who read and commented on all or part of the book in its almost-final form. These people did a lot to make the book complete, accurate, and interesting. Any remaining omissions, lingering errors, or residual prolixity are solely my own fault. Open source pundit Eric Raymond has said: ...