Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, Second Edition,   ISBN:9780471117094

Customer Rating: 

Essentially a glossary. Repetitious, drawn-out, painful explanation of terms. Nothing serious, nothing in-depth. Sounds professional but hollow. The only strong point of this book is that it includes many, many terms; useful from a "talk" point of view, but useless from an "applied" point of view.

Customer Rating: 

I am no expert, not in mathematics neither in cryptography. Well this book is exactly what i was looking for, no hard mathematics, no hard cryptographic theory, indeed a book for beginners like me and also for the engineer who wants implement his own cryptographic system. Specially for
computer science students and system developers this book is a great reference.
Implementation details and sample code in C language are included. The book is also very complete
Including the main topics in cryptography and cryptanalysis.

Customer Rating: 

This bookseller has a somewhat low rating and has complaints ("never received the book", "wrong book"), etc. The book being offered is a used library book and is priced at several multiples over what the later edition sells for new. I can understand selling collectibles at a premium over new, but a book discarded by a library?

Customer Rating: 

I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand how cryptography works and how the different protocols work. This book covers so much, and even includes source code. I have not been disappointed with this purchase. If anything, I am being continually surprised by the awesome content. The book does get very technical, but that is what I wanted.

Customer Rating: 

Hello there,

Ah, The Bible on Cryptography!!

If you have 0 knowledge of Cryptography, and want a crash-course on the all major ciphers used by the NSA and other organizations including the mathematics behind them, ... then this IS the book for you.

Thanks to the wonderful clear and detailed explanations of Mr. Bruce Schneier, I was able to implement RSA encryption/decryption programs in 4 days. I am currently learning DES.

Mr. Schneier covers history, all the basic crypto-logic terms, all the algorithms in concise, simple language.

I can't praise this book enough.

Cryptography has so many applications that can be used in common-folks daily lives' .... especially now that everyone owns a personal computer and has access to email...

It is clear to me that everybody, and I mean EVERYONE has to various degrees, secrets that they do not want revealed... This book is the #1 basic learning block on how to encrypt those secrets so they stay in that state (secret).

Cheers,
Charles Darakdjian