Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice (3rd Edition) [Hardcover]

William Stallings (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0130914290 | ISBN-13: 978-0130914293 | Publication Date: August 27, 2002 | Edition: 3

For one-semester, undergraduate/graduate level courses in Cryptography, Computer Security, and Network Security. Best-selling author and four-time winner of the TEXTY award for the best Computer Science and Engineering text, William Stallings provides a practical survey of both the principles and practice of cryptography and network security. This text, which won the 1999 TAA Award for the best computer science and engineering textbook of the year, has been completely updated to reflect the latest developments in the field. It has also been extensively reorganized to provide the optimal sequence for classroom instruction and self-study.

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William Stallings' book provides comprehensive and completely up-to-date coverage of computer organization and architecture including memory, I/O, and parallel systems. The text covers leading-edge areas, including superscalar design, IA-64 design features, and parallel processor organization trends. It meets students' needs by addressing both the fundamental principles as well as the critical role of performance in driving computer design. Providing an unparalleled degree of instructor and student support, including supplements and on-line resources through the book's website, the sixth edition is in the forefront in its field.

New Material

• IA-64/Itanium architecture: The chapter-length description and analysis includes predicated execution and speculative loading.
• Cache memory: The new edition devotes an entire chapter to this central element in the design of high-performance processors.
• Optical memory: Coverage is expanded and updated.
• Advanced DRAM architecture: More material has been added to cover this topic, including an updated discussion of SDRAM and RDRAM.
• SMPs, clusters, and NUMA systems: The chapter on parallel organization has been expanded and updated.
• Expanded instructor support: The book now provides extensive support for projects with its new website.
• Pedagogy: Each chapter now includes a list of review questions (as well as homework problems) and a list of key words.

Distinguishing Treatment

Bus organization: detailed treatment and evaluation of key design issues.

RISC: broad, unified presentation

Microprogrammed implementation: full treatment for a firm grasp

I/O functions and structures: full coverage, including interaction of I/O modules with the outside world and the CPU.

Pedagogical Features

• Running examples: Provides numerous concrete examples, especially Pentium 4 and Power PC G4
• Unified instructional approach: Enables student to evaluate instruction set design issues.
• Instructors Resource CD-ROM: Includes solutions to homework problems, list of research projects, and list of simulation projects, plus student manual for both SimpleScalar and SMPCache, and a list of suggested reading assignments.

The author's website: http://www.WilliamStallings.com/COA6e provides support for students, instructors and professionals:

• Links to important up-to-date site-related text materials
• Provides transparency masters of figures and tables from the book in PDF format
• Offers course notes in PDF for handouts
• Includes a set of PowerPoint slides for lecturing

About the Author

William Stallings has made a unique contribution to understanding the broad sweep of technical developments in computer networking and computer architecture. He has authored 18 titles, and counting revised editions, a total of 48 books on various aspects of this subject. 1 lc has won the annual Text and Academic Authors Association award five times for the best computer science and engineering text. He is an independent consultant whose clients have included computer and networking manufacturers and customers, software development firms, and leading-edge government research institutions. He maintains the Computer Science Technical Resciurce site at http://www.WilliamStallings.com/StudentSupport.html. Dr. Stallings holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from M.LT. All of his Prentice Hall title's can he found at the Prentice Hall web site http://www.prenhall.com/stallings.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 696 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 3 edition (August 27, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130914290
• ISBN-13: 978-0130914293
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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49 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Solid coverage for professionals, students and instructors, November 27, 1998

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This review is from: Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)

This book is intended to serve both as a textbook for an academic course of study, and as a self-study and reference guide for practicing professionals. The material has been extended to emphasize encryption and its central position in network protection. The structure and flow have been reorganized with both classroom use and solo instruction in mind, and additional teaching material, such as additional problems, have been added.

Chapter one is an introduction to the topics to be covered. In a practical way it outlines the concerns involved in the phrase computer security, and the priorities occasioned by the networked nature of modern computing. There is also an outline of the chapters and sequence in the rest of the book. While the text does note that cryptographic techniques underlie most of current security technologies this is only done briefly. Examples in the major categories listed would help explain this primary position.

Part one deals with conventional, symmetric, encryption and the various methods of attacking it. Chapter two covers the historical substitution and transposition ciphers. Symmetric block ciphers are discussed in chapter three, illustrated by an explanation of DES (Data Encryption Standard). The additional conventional algorithms of triple DES, IDEA (International Data Encryption Algorithm), and RC5 are reviewed in chapter four. The use of conventional encryption for confidentiality is outlined in chapter five.

Part three looks at public-key encryption and hash functions. Chapter six introduces public-key encryption and its uses in confidentiality, authentication, and key management and exchange. Number theory is the basis of these modern algorithms, so some basic mathematical concepts are outlined in chapter seven. Digital signatures and message authentication is introduced in some detail in chapter eight. The algorithms themselves are explained in chapter nine, including MD5 (Message Digest algorithm), SHA (Secure Hash Algorithm), and others. Protocols using digital signatures are described in chapter ten.

Part three takes this background material and relates its use in security practice. Chapter eleven looks at authentication, concentrating on Kerberos and X.509. The examples of e-mail security systems given in chapter twelve are PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) and S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension). Security provisions for the Internet Protocol (IP) itself are reviewed in chapter thirteen. Web security, in chapter fourteen, again concentrates on protocol level matters, but also discusses the SET (Secure Electronic Transaction) standard at the application level.

Part four outlines general system security. To the general public the primary concern of security is to deal with intruders and malicious software, so it may seem odd to the uninitiated to find that both of these subjects are lumped together in chapter fifteen. Chapter sixteen finishes off the book with a description of firewalls and the concept of trusted systems that they rely on.

Each chapter ends with a set of recommended readings and problems. Many chapters also have appendices giving additional details of specific topics related to the subject just discussed.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Meat and Potatoes, December 21, 2003

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Stephen Mathews "busysteve" (Sunrise, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice (3rd Edition) (Hardcover)

This review is for the 3rd edition -
I'm not a cryptographer by any means. I've owned Applied Cryptography(AC) for 4 years. It's been quite helpful but leans farther into theory (not covered in it) than I was willing or able to research at the time. I often found myself needing to refer to other resources over the years. I purchased this book after thumbing through it a few times at the bookstore. I'm not one to run out and spend $80 on a book in haste. After a couple of collective hours in it at the store I bought it with the intention of returning it in the 30 allotted days for a full refund. That date comes tomorrow and I have no intention on returning it.

I would describe it as a self-contained reference. It covers cryptography principles and practices as the title implies. When discussing the algorithms it covers them with roughly the same notation and detail as AC. However, I found the explained examples to be clearer. When I found myself getting lost I took the text's advice and referred to the chapters on mathematics and number theory. Not only did it clear the fog it also bit me with the math bug. Leading me to buy another great book, Prime Obsession (nothing to do with crypto). I should mention that this book is void of code. I didn't find this to be a problem because if I'm not using a crypto lib I usually have to implement the crypto code from scratch. With the knowledge presented in this book I can do it better. FYI: The OpenSSL lib offers a bunch of implemented algorithims.

16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The all in one overview, May 9, 2000

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John Lebourgeois "jleb" (tucson, az) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)

As CTO of an internet security company I am often required to locate information or explain concepts to people regarding network security and the Public Key Infrastructure. Having a ready reference with excellent drawings has made the communication of key concepts easy. For details of implementations, I send the engineers to Applied Cryptography, but for the overview of the Net protocols, I bought everyone in the company this book.