13SECURITY
Security is an advanced topic. The cryptography component in particular involves lots of esoteric mathematics. But it’s a really important topic. Rather than go into all the gory details, this chapter gives you the lay of the land. While this isn’t enough for you to qualify as a security expert, it should enable you to ask questions about the viability of security implementations. And there are lots of things that you can do without having to be a security expert to make both you and your code more secure.
For the most part, computer security is not very different from regular old security, such as home security. In many respects, the ...
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