RSA Security's Official Guide to Cryptography

With degrees in math from Grinnell College in Iowa and The Claremont Graduate School in California, Steve Burnett has spent most of his career converting math into computer programs, first at Intergraph Corporation and now with RSA Security. He is currently the lead crypto engineer for RSA's BSAFE Crypto-C and Crypto-J products, which are general purpose crypto software development kits in C and Java. Burnett is also a frequent speaker at industry events and college campuses. Stephen Paine (San Mateo, CA) is a Systems Engineer at RSA Security where he explains concepts in security to corporations and developers worldwide. Stephen has worked in the security field for most of his career, first working with the security of digital communications and networks for the United States Marine Corps, as a Security Architect at SUN Microsystems, applying Cryptography and security to their ERP financial systems.

Chapter 1: Why Cryptography? Chapter 2: Symmetric-Key Cryptography. Chapter 3: Symmetric-Key Management. Chapter 4: The Key Distribution Problem and Public-Key Cryptography. Chapter 5: The Digital Signature. Chapter 6: Public-Key Infrastructures and the X.509 Standard. Chapter 7: Network and Transport Security Protocols. Chapter 8: Application-Layer Security Protocols. Chapter 9: Hardware Solutions: Overcoming Software Limitations. Chapter 10: Digital Signatures: Beyond Security. Chapter 11: Doing It Wrong: The Break-Ins. Chapter 12: Doing It Right: Following Standards. Appendix A: Bits, Bytes, Hex, and ASCII. Appendix B: A Layman's Guide to a Subset of ASN.1, BER, and DER. Appendix C: Further Technical Details.