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Author: David Hook
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Beginning Cryptography with JavaWhile cryptography can still be a controversial topic in the programming community, Java has weathered that storm and provides a rich set of APIs that allow you, the developer, to effectively include cryptography in applications-if you know how.
This book teaches you how. Chapters one through five cover the architecture of the JCE and JCA, symmetric and asymmetric key encryption in Java, message authentication codes, and how to create Java implementations with the API provided by the Bouncy Castle ASN.1 packages, all with plenty of examples. Building on that foundation, the second half of the book takes you into higher-level topics, enabling you to create and implement secure Java applications and make use of standard protocols such as CMS, SSL, and S/MIME.
What you will learn from this book
- How to understand and use JCE, JCA, and the JSSE for encryption and authentication
- The ways in which padding mechanisms work in ciphers and how to spot and fix typical errors
- An understanding of how authentication mechanisms are implemented in Java and why they are used
- Methods for describing cryptographic objects with ASN.1
- How to create certificate revocation lists and use the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP)
- Real-world Web solutions using Bouncy Castle APIs
Who this book is for
This book is for Java developers who want to use cryptography in their applications or to understand how cryptography is being used in Java applications. Knowledge of the Java language is necessary, but you need not be familiar with any of the APIs discussed.
Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.
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- Paperback: 484 pages
- Publisher: Wrox; 1 edition (August 19, 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0764596330
- ISBN-13: 978-0764596339
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Free Beginning Cryptography with Java
This book guided me to understand cryptography with Java, but it was not easy.
Even having in mind that this would not be a "for dummies" book, and also knowing cryptography is a hard subject on its own, I found this book hard to follow in many times. Please note I read technical books regularly.
The author demands a lot from the reader. That's because one thing is to read and simply try to understand what the author is saying. That is not so hard. But another thing is to stop and think how you would actually use and code the processes in real life. I think the book deserves more paragraphs in the end of the chapters, to help the reader concludes important points on each subject. Examples of what you find throughout the book:
- in the RSA sections, the book does not talk clearly about what details must and what details must not be agreed between the 2 parties before the process. Do the parties have to agree upon the symmetric key size? Both the mode and the padding of the 2 cryptography (RSA and symmetric) have to be agreed or each party can choose freely?
- in Diffie-Hellman, in real life applications, do the parties have to previously agree upon the value of P and G?
It is up to the reader to find out this kind of "detail", having to make and test his own code or to make further researches.
Another point is that the sample codes the book has are a little too much simplified. Of course, this is good to introduce a new concept, and also for the sake of the book size. But something that bothered me a lot was the fact the the codes are never split between the code that runs in one of the parties (the sender, for instance) and the other party (the receiver).