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Carlisle Adams and Steve Lloyd Understanding Public Key
Infrastructure
Macmillan 1999 ISBN 1-57870-166-x
An overview, mainly concentrating on policy and strategic issues rather than
the technical details. Both authors work for PKI vendor Entrust.
Albitz, Liu & Loukides DNS & BIND
3rd edition
O'Reilly 1998 ISBN 1-56592-512-2
The standard reference on the Domain Name
Service and Berkeley Internet Name
Daemon.
Bamford The Puzzle Palace, A report on NSA, Americas's
most Secret Agency
Houghton Mifflin 1982 ISBN 0-395-31286-8
Bamford Body of Secrets
The sequel.
David Bander, Linux Security Toolkit
IDG Books, 2000, ISBN: 0764546902
This book has a short section on FreeS/WAN and includes Caldera Linux on CD.
Chapman, Zwicky & Russell, Building Internet
Firewalls
O'Reilly 1995 ISBN 1-56592-124-0
Cheswick and Bellovin Firewalls and
Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker
Addison-Wesley 1994 ISBN 0201633574
A fine book on firewalls in particular and security in general from two of
AT&T's system adminstrators.
Bellovin has also done a number of papers on
IPsec and co-authored a paper on a large
FreeS/WAN application.
Comer Internetworking with TCP/IP
Prentice Hall
- Vol. I: Principles, Protocols, & Architecture, 3rd Ed. 1995
ISBN:0-13-216987-8
- Vol. II: Design, Implementation, & Intervals, 2nd Ed. 1994
ISBN:0-13-125527-4
- Vol. III: Client/Server Programming & Applications
- AT&T TLI Version 1994 ISBN:0-13-474230-3
- BSD Socket Version 1996 ISBN:0-13-260969-X
- Windows Sockets Version 1997 ISBN:0-13-848714-6
If you need to deal with the details of the network protocols, read either
this series or the Stevens and Wright series before
you start reading the RFCs.
Diffie and Landau Privacy on the Line: The
Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption
MIT press 1998 ISBN 0-262-04167-7 (hardcover) or 0-262-54100-9
Doraswamy and Harkins IP Sec: The New Security
Standard for the Internet, Intranets and Virtual Private Networks
Prentice Hall 1999 ISBN: 0130118982
Electronic Frontier Foundation Cracking DES: Secrets of
Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics and Chip Design
O'Reilly 1998 ISBN 1-56592-520-3
To conclusively demonstrate that DES is inadequate for continued use, the EFF built a machine for just over $200,000 that
breaks DES encryption in under five days on average, under nine in the worst
case.
The book provides details of their design and, perhaps even more
important, discusses why they felt the project was necessary. Recommended for
anyone interested in any of the three topics mentioned in the subtitle.
See also the EFF page on
this project and our discussion of DES insecurity.
Martin Freiss Protecting Networks with SATAN
O'Reilly 1998 ISBN 1-56592-425-8
translated from a 1996 work in German
SATAN is a Security Administrator's Tool for Analysing Networks. This book is
a tutorial in its use.
Gaidosch and Kunzinger A Guide to Virtual Private Networks
Prentice Hall 1999 ISBN: 0130839647
Simson Garfinkel Database Nation: the death of
privacy in the 21st century
O'Reilly 2000 ISBN 1-56592-653-6
A thoughtful and rather scary book.
Simson Garfinkel PGP: Pretty Good Privacy
O'Reilly 1995 ISBN 1-56592-098-8
An excellent introduction and user manual for thePGP email-encryption package. PGP is a good
package with a complex and poorly-designed user interface. This book or one
like it is a must for anyone who has to use it at length.
The book covers using PGP in Unix, PC and Macintosh environments, plus
considerable background material on both the technical and political issues
around cryptography. The only shortcoming is that it does not cover recent
developments such as PGP 5 and Open PGP.
Garfinkel and Spafford Practical Unix
Security
O'Reilly 1996 ISBN 1-56592-148-8
A standard reference.
Spafford's web page has an excellent collection of crypto and security links.
David Kahn The Codebreakers: the Comprehensive History
of Secret Communications from Ancient Times to the Internet
second edition Scribner 1996 ISBN 0684831309
A history of codes and code-breaking from ancient Egypt to the 20th century.
Well-written and exhaustively researched. Highly
recommended, even though it does not have much on computer
cryptography.
David Kahn Seizing the Enigma, The Race to Break the German U-Boat
codes, 1939-1943
Houghton Mifflin 1991 ISBN 0-395-42739-8
Olaf Kirch Linux Network Administrator's
Guide
O'Reilly 1995 ISBN 1-56592-087-2
Now becoming somewhat dated in places, but still a good introductory book and
general reference.
Kolesnikov and Hatch, Building Linux Virtual
Private Networks (VPNs)
New Riders 2002
This got a very favorable review from Tina Bird, moderator of the VPN
mailing list at securityfocus.com.
Pete Loshin Big Book of IPsec RFCs
Morgan Kaufmann 2000 ISBN: 0-12-455839-9
Steven Levy Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the
Government -- Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
Penguin 2001, ISBN 0-670--85950-8
Highly recommended. A fine history of recent (about
1970-2000) developments in the field, and the related political
controversies. FreeS/WAN project founder and leader John Gilmore appears
several times.
The book does not cover IPsec or FreeS/WAN, but this project is very much
another battle in the same war. See our discussion of the politics.
Matyas, Anderson et al. The Global Trust
Register
Northgate Consultants Ltd 1998 ISBN: 0953239705
hard cover edition due April 1999 MIT Press ISBN 0262511053
From
their web page:
This book is a register of the fingerprints of the world's most important
public keys; it implements a top-level certification authority (CA) using
paper and ink rather than in an electronic system.
Menezies, van Oorschot and Vanstone Handbook of
Applied Cryptography
CRC Press 1997
ISBN 0-8493-8523-7
An excellent reference. Read Schneier before tackling
this.
Michael Padlipsky Elements of Networking Style
Prentice-Hall 1985 ISBN 0-13-268111-0 or 0-13-268129-3
Probably the funniest technical book ever written, this is a
vicious but well-reasoned attack on the OSI "seven layer model" and all that
went with it. Several chapters of it are also available as RFCs 871 to 875.
John S. Quarterman The Matrix: Computer Networks and
Conferencing Systems Worldwide
Digital Press 1990 ISBN 155558-033-5
Prentice-Hall ISBN 0-13-565607-9
The best general treatment of computer-mediated communication we have seen.
It naturally has much to say about the Internet, but also covers UUCP,
Fidonet and so on.
David Ranch Securing Linux Step by Step
SANS Institute, 1999
SANS is a respected organisation, this
guide is part of a well-known series, and Ranch has previously written the
useful Trinity
OS guide to securing Linux, so my guess would be this is a pretty good
book. I haven't read it yet, so I'm not certain. It can be ordered online
from SANS.
Bruce Schneier Applied Cryptography, Second
Edition
John Wiley & Sons, 1996
ISBN 0-471-12845-7 hardcover
ISBN 0-471-11709-9 paperback
A standard reference on computer cryptography. For more recent essays, see
theauthor's company's web site.
Bruce Schneier Secrets and Lies
Wiley 2000, ISBN 0-471-25311-1
An interesting discussion of security and privacy issues, written with more
of an "executive overview" approach rather than a narrow focus on the
technical issues. Highly recommended.
Scott, Wolfe and Irwin Virtual Private
Networks
2nd edition, O'Reilly 1999 ISBN: 1-56592-529-7
This is the only O'Reilly book, out of a dozen I own, that I'm disappointed
with. It deals mainly with building VPNs with various proprietary tools -- PPTP, SSH,
Cisco PIX, ... -- and touches only lightly on IPsec-based approaches.
That said, it appears to deal competently with what it does cover and it
has readable explanations of many basic VPN and security concepts. It may be
exactly what some readers require, even if I find the emphasis
unfortunate.
Kurt Seifried Linux Administrator's Security
Guide
Available online from Security
Portal. It has fairly extensive coverage of IPsec.
Richard E Smith Internet Cryptography
ISBN 0-201-92480-3, Addison Wesley, 1997
See the book's home page
Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon
Hardcover ISBN -380-97346-4, Avon, 1999.
A novel in which cryptography and the net figure prominently.
Highly recommended: I liked it enough I immediately went out
and bought all the author's other books.
There is also a paperback edition. Sequels are expected.
Stevens and Wright TCP/IP Illustrated
Addison-Wesley
- Vol. I: The Protocols 1994 ISBN:0-201-63346-9
- Vol. II: The Implementation 1995 ISBN:0-201-63354-X
- Vol. III: TCP for Transactions, HTTP, NNTP, and the UNIX Domain
Protocols 1996 ISBN: 0-201-63495-3
If you need to deal with the details of the network protocols, read either
this series or the Comer series before you start reading
the RFCs.
Rubini Linux Device Drivers
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. 1998 ISBN 1-56592-292-1
Robert Zeigler Linux Firewalls
Newriders Publishing, 2000 ISBN 0-7537-0900-9