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Advances in Cryptology: Proceedings of Crypto 83by David ChaumISBN 0306416379 (0-306-41637-9)
Hardcover, Kluwer Academic Pub
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The American Magic: Codes, Ciphers and the Defeat of Japanby Ronald LewinISBN 0374104174 (0-374-10417-4)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Securityby William L. Simon, Kevin D. MitnickISBN 0471237124 (0-471-23712-4)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security'Book summary:The Art of Deception is about gaining someone's trust by lying to them and then abusing that trust for fun and profit. Hackers use the euphemism "social engineering" and hacker-guru Kevin Mitnick examines many example scenarios.
After Mitnick's first dozen examples anyone responsible for organisational security is going to lose the will to live. It's been said before but people and security are antithetical. Organisations exist to provide a good or service and want helpful friendly employees to promote the good or service. People are social animals who want to be liked. Controlling the human aspects of security means denying someone something. This circle can't be squared.
Considering Mitnick's reputation as a hacker guru the least and last point of attack for hackers using social engineering are computers. Most of the scenarios in The Art of Deception work just as well against computer-free organisations and were probably known to the Pheonicians. Technology simply makes it all easier. Phones are faster than letters after all and large organisations mean dealing with lots of strangers.
Much of Mitnick's security advice sounds practical until you think about implementation, when you realise more effective security means reducing organisational efficiency: an impossible trade in competitive business. And anyway, who wants to work in an organisation where the rule is "Trust no one"? Mitnick shows how easily security is breached by trust, but without trust people can't live and work together. In the real world effective organisations have to acknowledge total security is a chimera--and carry more insurance. --Steve Patient [via]
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Beyond Fear : Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain Worldby Bruce SchneierISBN 0387026207 (0-387-02620-7)
Hardcover, Springer
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Fear : Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World'Book summary:Many of us, especially since 9/11, have become personally concerned about issues of security, and this is no surprise. Security is near the top of government and corporate agendas around the globe. Security-related stories appear on the front page everyday. How well though, do any of us truly understand what achieving real security involves? In Beyond Fear, Bruce Schneier invites us to take a critical look at not just the threats to our security, but the ways in which we're encouraged to think about security by law enforcement agencies, businesses of all shapes and sizes, and our national governments and militaries. Schneier believes we all can and should be better security consumers, and that the trade-offs we make in the name of security - in terms of cash outlays, taxes, inconvenience, and diminished freedoms - should be part of an ongoing negotiation in our personal, professional, and civic lives, and the subject of an open and informed national discussion. With a well-deserved reputation for original and sometimes iconoclastic thought, Schneier has a lot to say that is provocative, counter-intuitive, and just plain good sense. He explains in detail, for example, why we need to design security systems that don't just work well, but fail well, and why secrecy on the part of government often undermines security. He also believes, for instance, that national ID cards are an exceptionally bad idea: technically unsound, and even destructive of security. And, contrary to a lot of current nay-sayers, he thinks online shopping is fundamentally safe, and that many of the new airline security measure (though by no means all) are actually quite effective. A skeptic of much that's promised by highly touted technologies like biometrics, Schneier is also a refreshingly positive, problem-solving force in the often self-dramatizing and fear-mongering world of security pundits. Schneier helps the reader to understand the issues at stake, and how to best come to one's own conclusions, including the vast infrastructure we already have in place, and the vaster systems--some useful, others useless or worse--that we're being asked to submit to and pay for. Bruce Schneier is the author of seven books, including Applied Cryptography (which Wired called "the one book the National Security Agency wanted never to be published") and Secrets and Lies (described in Fortune as "startlingly lively...¦[a] jewel box of little surprises you can actually use."). He is also Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., and publishes Crypto-Gram, one of the most widely read newsletters in the field of online security. [via]
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Beyond Top Secret Uby Ewen MontaguISBN 0432095101 (0-432-09510-1)
Hardcover, P. Davies
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Bible Code II: The Countdownby Michael DrosninISBN 0142003506 (0-14-200350-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Chasing Vermeerby Blue Balliett, Brett HelquistISBN 0439372976 (0-439-37297-6)
Softcover, Scholastic Prof Book Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chasing Vermeer'Book summary:In the classic tradition of E.L. Konigsburgs From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, debut author Blue Balliett introduces readers to another pair of precocious kids on an artful quest full of patterns, puzzles, and the power of blue M&Ms. Eleven year old Petra and Calder may be in the same sixth grade class, but they barely know each other. Its only after a near collision during a museum field trip that they discover their shared worship of art, their teacher Ms. Hussey, and the blue candy that doesnt melt in your hands. Their burgeoning friendship is strengthened when a creative thief steals a valuable Vermeer painting en route to Chicago, their home town. When the thief leaves a trail of public clues via the newspaper, Petra and Calder decide to try and recover the painting themselves. But tracking down the Vermeer isnt easy, as Calder and Petra try to figure out what a set of pentominos (mathematical puzzle pieces), a mysterious book about unexplainable phenomena and a suddenly very nervous Ms. Hussey have to do with a centuries old artwork. When the thief ups the ante by declaring that he or she may very well destroy the painting, the two friends know they have to make the pieces of the puzzle fit before its too late!
Already being heralded as The DaVinci Code for kids, Chasing Vermeer will have middle grade readers scrutinizing art books as they try to solve the mystery along with Calder and Petra. In an added bonus, artist Brett Helquist has also hidden a secret pentomino message in several of the books illustrations for readers to decode. An auspicious and wonderfully satisfying debut that will leave no young detective clueless. --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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City of Saints And Madmenby Jeff Vandermeer, Michael MoorcockISBN 0553383574 (0-553-38357-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. An artist receives an invitation to a beheadingand finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced hes made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that hes really from a place called Chicago.&
By turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and eyewitness reports invokes a universe within a puzzlebox where you can loseand findyourself again. [via]More editions of City of Saints And Madmen:
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Twoby Roger HargreavesISBN 0142405965 (0-14-240596-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Codebreaker in the Far Eastby Alan StrippISBN 0192803867 (0-19-280386-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Codebreaker's Victory: How the Allied Cryptogaphers Won World War IIby Hervie HauflerISBN 0451209796 (0-451-20979-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Codes and Ciphers: Julius Caesar, the Enigma, and the Internetby R. F. ChurchhouseISBN 0521008905 (0-521-00890-5)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Codexby Lev GrossmanISBN 015602859X (0-15-602859-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computersby Jack Copeland, B. Jack CopelandISBN 019284055X (0-19-284055-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Covert Java: Techniques for Decompiling, Patching, and Reverse Engineeringby Alex KalinovskyISBN 0672326388 (0-672-32638-8)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Deciphermentby R. B. Parkinson, M. Fisher, Whitfield Diffie, Robert S. SimpsonISBN 0520222482 (0-520-22248-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment'Book summary:In 1799, while Napoleon's troops battled the fierce Mamelukes in Egypt's Western Delta, a French engineer discovered a giant granite slab that contained strange symbols and Greek letters. Two Egyptologists, the British-born Thomas Young and the astounding young French linguistic polymath Jean-François Champollion, fought to decipher the confounding script in an epic scientific battle. In 1822 Champollion finally broke through 3,000 years of mystery and revealed the Egyptian demotic and hieroglyphic system of writing--forever changing our view of history in the process.
Cracking Codes, by Richard Parkinson, the British Museum's assistant keeper of Egyptian antiquities, is a companion volume for the museum's bicentennial exhibition of what has come to be known as the Rosetta stone. With 32 color and 200 black-and-white illustrations ranging from limestone fragments to whole statues, illustrated papyrus, and evocative wall paintings, Parkinson shows how Champollion's piercing of the mists of time has enabled the ancient Egyptians to speak to modern civilizations. Parkinson's essays on the importance of writing to human civilization and the birth of Egyptology are equally insightful. "The decipherment of the Egyptian scripts is not a single event that occurred in 1822," he writes, but "a continuous process that is repeated at every reading of a text or artifact. Like any process of reading, it is a dialogue." --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopiasby Peter LudlowISBN 0262621517 (0-262-62151-7)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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The Cryptographerby Tobias HillISBN 0571218369 (0-571-21836-9)
Softcover, Faber and Faber
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Cryptography: A Primerby Alan G. KonheimISBN 0471081329 (0-471-08132-9)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Cryptography and Coding, IIby Chris MitchellISBN 0198533934 (0-19-853393-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Cryptography and E-Commerce: A Wiley Tech Briefby Jon C. GraffISBN 0471405744 (0-471-40574-4)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The Cuckoo's Egg: Inside the World of Computer Espionageby Clifford Stoll, Julie RubensteinISBN 0671726889 (0-671-72688-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Decipherment of Linear Bby John ChadwickISBN 0521398304 (0-521-39830-4)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holesby Charles SeifeISBN 0143038397 (0-14-303839-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes'Book summary:As Charles Seife reveals in this energetic new book, information theory, once the province of philosophers and linguists, has emerged as the crucial science of our time, shedding new light on the mysteries of physics, the nature of space and time and the creation and destruction of the universe itself.
With his gift for making cutting-edge science accessible and entertaining, Seife explains how theorists came to understand that information is not a construct of the mind but a fundamental element of the physical world, something that sits inside every living cell and surrounds every black hole in the cosmos. It exists, like energy, even if there is no life to observe it. Starting with the breaking of the Enigma code during World War II and building momentum with the computer revolution, information theory has taken its place at the forefront of theoretical physics as scientists begin to use it to reconcile the paradoxes of relativity and quantum mechanics that have puzzled theorists since Einstein. Lucid and exhilarating, Decoding the Universe probes the mind-boggling advances that are taking us to the brink of a new understanding of the universe. [via]
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The Desert Generalsby Correlli BarnettISBN 0304352802 (0-304-35280-2)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The Diamond Ageby Neal StephensonISBN 0553380966 (0-553-38096-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Diamond Age/Or, Young Lady's Illustrated Primerby Neal StephensonISBN 0553573314 (0-553-57331-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Difference Engineby Bruce Sterling, William GibsonISBN 055329461X (0-553-29461-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Difference Engine'Book summary:A collaborative novel from the premier cyberpunk authors, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine takes us not forward but back, to an imagined 1885: the Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven, cybernetic engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. [via]
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The Difference Engineby William GibsonISBN 055307346X (0-553-07346-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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Differential Cryptanalysis of the Data Encryption Standardby Eli Biham, Adi ShamirISBN 0387979301 (0-387-97930-1)
Hardcover, Springer Verlag
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The Eightby Katherine NevilleISBN 0345366239 (0-345-36623-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Eight'Book summary:Katherine Neville's debut novel is a postmodern thriller set in 1972 ... and 1790. In the 20th century, Catherine Velis is a computer expert with a flair for music, painting, and chess who, on her way to Algeria at the behest of the accounting firm where she is employed, is invited to take a mysterious moonlighting assignment: recover the pieces of an old chess set missing for centuries.
In the midst of the French Revolution, a young novice discovers that her abbey is the hiding place of a chess set, once owned by the great Charlemagne, which allows those who play it to tap into incredible powers beyond the imagination. She eventually comes into contact with the major historical figures of the day, from Robespierre to Napoleon, each of whom has an agenda.
The Eight is a non-stop ride that recalls the swashbuckling adventures of Indiana Jones as well as the historical puzzles of Umberto Eco which, since its first publication in 1988, has gone on to acquire a substantial cult following. [via]
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Elementary Number Theory: and Its Applicationsby Kenneth H. RosenISBN 0201578891 (0-201-57889-1)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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Hardcover, Addison Wesley - Elementary Number Theory: and Its Applications: ISBN 0201870738 (0-201-87073-8)
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Elliptic Curves in Cryptographyby Nigel P. Smart, I. Blake, G. SeroussiISBN 0521653746 (0-521-65374-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Emperor's Codes: Bletchley Park and the Breaking of Japan's Secret Ciphersby Michael SmithISBN 0593046420 (0-593-04642-0)
Softcover, Bantam Press
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The Enigma Warby Jozef GarlinskiISBN 0684158663 (0-684-15866-3)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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The Essential Turing: Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intellegence, And Artificial Life; Plus The Secrets Of Enigmaby Alan Mathison Turing, B. J. CopelandISBN 0198250800 (0-19-825080-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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At the outbreak of hostilities with Germany in September 1939, he joined the Government Codebreaking team at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire and played a crucial role in deciphering Engima, the code used by the German armed forces to protect their radio communications. Turing's work on the version of Enigma used by the German navy was vital to the battle for supremacy in the North Atlantic. He also contributed to the attack on the cyphers known as "Fish," which were used by the German High Command for the encryption of signals during the latter part of the war. His contribution helped to shorten the war in Europe by an estimated two years.
After the war, his theoretical work led to the development of Britain's first computers at the National Physical Laboratory and the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at Manchester University.
Turing was also a founding father of modern cognitive science, theorizing that the cortex at birth is an "unorganized machine" which through "training" becomes organized "into a universal machine or something like it." He went on to develop the use of computers to model biological growth, launching the discipline now referred to as Artificial Life.
The papers in this book are the key works for understanding Turing's phenomenal contribution across all these fields. The collection includes Turing's declassified wartime "Treatise on the Enigma"; letters from Turing to Churchill and to codebreakers; lectures, papers, and broadcasts which opened up the concept of AI and its implications; and the paper which formed the genesis of the investigation of Artifical Life. [via]More editions of The Essential Turing: Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intellegence, And Artificial Life; Plus The Secrets Of Enigma:
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Excursions in Number Theoryby C. Stanley OgilvyISBN 0486257789 (0-486-25778-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Fermat's Enigmaby Simon SinghISBN 0385493622 (0-385-49362-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fermat's Enigma'Book summary:When Andrew Wiles of Princeton University announced a solution of Fermat's last theorem in 1993 it electrified the world of mathematics. After a flaw was discovered in the proof, Wiles had to work for another year--he had already labored in solitude for seven years--to establish that he had solved the 350-year-old problem. Simon Singh's book is a lively, comprehensible explanation of Wiles's work and of the star-, trauma-, and wacko-studded history of Fermat's last theorem. Fermat's Enigma contains some problems that offer a taste for the math, but it also includes limericks to give a feeling for the goofy side of mathematicians. [via]
Forgotten Scripts: Their Ongoing Discovery and Deciperment/#1499748by Cyrus GordonISBN 046502484X (0-465-02484-X)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Fun With Codes and Ciphers Workbookby Norma GleasonISBN 0486254054 (0-486-25405-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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GCHQ: The Secret Wireless War, 1900-86by Nigel WestISBN 034041197X (0-340-41197-X)
Hardcover, Hodder and Stoughton
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The Geometric Universe: Science, Geometry, and the Work of Roger Penroseby S. A. Huggett, Lionel Mason, Paul Tod, Sheung TsouISBN 0198500599 (0-19-850059-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Glyphbreaker : A Decipherer's Storyby Steven R. FischerISBN 0387982418 (0-387-98241-8)
Hardcover, Springer
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The Gold-Bug and Other Talesby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0486268756 (0-486-26875-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Guide to Elliptic Curve Cryptographyby Scott Vanstone, Alfred J. Menezes, Darrel HankersonISBN 038795273X (0-387-95273-X)
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Have His Carcaseby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0380009390 (0-380-00939-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Have His Carcase'Book summary:A young woman falls asleep on a deserted beach and wakes to discover the body of a man whose throat has been slashed from ear to ear ...The young woman is the celebrated detective novelist Harriet Vane, once again drawn against her will into a murder investigation in which she herself could be a suspect. Lord Peter Wimsey is only too eager to help her clear her name. 'She combined literary prose with powerful suspense, and it takes a rare talent to achieve that. A truly great storyteller.' Minette Walters [via]
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Information Gathering in Classical Greeceby Frank Santi RussellISBN 0472110640 (0-472-11064-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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An Instance of the Fingerpostby Iain PearsISBN 0425167720 (0-425-16772-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'Book summary:An Instance of the Fingerpost is that rarest of all possible literary beasts--a mystery powered as much by ideas as by suspects, autopsies, and smoking guns. Hefty, intricately plotted, and intellectually ambitious, Fingerpost has drawn the inevitable comparisons to Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose and, for once, the comparison is apt.
The year is 1663, and the setting is Oxford, England, during the height of Restoration political intrigue. When Dr. Robert Grove is found dead in his Oxford room, hands clenched and face frozen in a rictus of pain, all the signs point to poison. Rashomon-like, the narrative circles around Grove's murder as four different characters give their version of events: Marco da Cola, a visiting Italian physician--or so he would like the reader to believe; Jack Prestcott, the son of a traitor who fled the country to avoid execution; Dr. John Wallis, a mathematician and cryptographer with a predilection for conspiracy theories; and Anthony Wood, a mild-mannered Oxford antiquarian whose tale proves to be the book's "instance of the fingerpost." (The quote comes from the philosopher Bacon, who, while asserting that all evidence is ultimately fallible, allows for "one instance of a fingerpost that points in one direction only, and allows of no other possibility.")
Like The Name of the Rose, this is one whodunit in which the principal mystery is the nature of truth itself. Along the way, Pears displays a keen eye for period details as diverse as the early days of medicine, the convoluted politics of the English Civil War, and the newfangled fashion for wigs. Yet Pears never loses sight of his characters, who manage to be both utterly authentic denizens of the 17th century and utterly authentic human beings. As a mystery, An Instance of the Fingerpost is entertainment of the most intelligent sort; as a novel of ideas, it proves equally satisfying. [via]
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Introduction to Cryptographyby Johannes A. BuchmannISBN 0387207562 (0-387-20756-2)
Softcover, Springer Verlag
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Marching Orders: The Untold Story of World War IIby Bruce LeeISBN 0306810360 (0-306-81036-0)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marching Orders: The Untold Story of World War II'Book summary:Robert T. Crowley, an intelligence officer in World War II who later became a senior executive at the CIA, has called Marching Orders simply "one of the most important books ever published about World War II." At last available in paperback, the book reveals a host of previously untold stories about codes and codebreakingincluding how the American breaking of the Japanese diplomatic Purple ciphers led to the defeat of Germany, as well as why America and England agreed to use nuclear weapons against Japan. Bruce Lee, who had access to 1.5 million pages of U.S. Army documents and 15,000 pages of the sometimes daily top-secret messages sent to Tokyo from Japanese diplomats stationed in Berlin and elsewhere, constructs the most complete history available on American codebreaking activity and its consequences. He concisely documents the extraordinary casualties both American and Japanese forces would have suffered in an invasion and occupation of Japan, demonstrating through intercepted secret communications between Japanese leaders that Tokyo was adamant in its refusal to surrender.[via]More editions of Marching Orders: The Untold Story of World War II:
More Java Gemsby Dwight DeugoISBN 0521774772 (0-521-77477-2)
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The Open Marketby Catherian NevelISBN 0345362403 (0-345-36240-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Pattern Recognitionby William GibsonISBN 0425192938 (0-425-19293-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pattern Recognition'Book summary:With Pattern Recognition, William Gibson, the man who introduced cyberpunk to the world, gives us his first novel set in the present. But as Gibson's imagination makes clear, our corporation-dominated, technologically advanced reality doesn't need much tweaking to take on the aura of science fiction.
If there's a fantastical element to this, the author's eighth book, it's in protagonist Cayce Pollard's special talent. Here, Gibson takes some of No Logo author Naomi Klein's ideas about branding to a logical extreme: Pollard has an instinctual, often violently intense reaction to logos, a condition that makes her valuable to advertising agencies looking for the most effective way to brand a product. This talent, however, makes a trip to a department store potentially lethal, as when she visits a London shopping emporium and is inundated by "a mountainside of Tommy [Hilfiger] coming down in her head." "Some people ingest a single peanut and their head swells like a basketball," writes Gibson. "When it happens to Cayce, it's her psyche.... When it starts, it's pure reaction, like biting down hard on a piece of foil." Pollard is also a "coolhunter" of the first order, which means she can sniff out a trend before it's even begun to be commodified. She's so good, in fact, that "she's met the very Mexican who first wore his baseball cap backwards."
With such sensitivity to our over-branded world, it's completely natural that our heroine would become fascinated by Internet footage of a film in which characters, setting, and time are completely generic--unbranded, unfixed, free. But Pollard isn't the only one obsessed by "the footage," as it's referred to, and this is where Gibson's masterful storytelling comes to the fore. Who will be the first to solve the mystery of the film's origin? Who else is trying, and for what potentially nefarious purpose? As usual the author proves adept at weaving a suspenseful narrative out of humdrum elements, such as e-mail exchanges. If there's a caveat, it's that, as with literary forefather Philip K. Dick, the Vancouver-based author's prose veers wildly from the poetic to the clunky. And his supporting characters often amount to nothing more than a combination of an unusual name and shadowy motive. But the continual barrage of ideas, and the way Gibson arranges them for maximum impact, make for a gripping and insightful glimpse into our hyperdriven consumer culture. --Shawn Conner [via]
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Practical Unix and Internet Securityby Alan Schwartz, Simson Garfinkel, Gene SpaffordISBN 0596003234 (0-596-00323-4)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Practical Unix and Internet Security'Book summary:The world's most business-critical transactions run on Unix machines, which means the machines running those transactions attract evildoers. Furthermore, a lot of those machines have Internet connections, which means it's always possible that some nefarious remote user will find a way in. The third edition of Practical Unix & Internet Security contains--to an even greater extent than its favorably reputed ancestors--an enormous amount of accumulated wisdom about how to protect Internet-connected Unix machines from intrusion and other forms of attack. This book is fat with practical advice on specific defensive measures (to defeat known attacks) and generally wise policies (to head off as-yet-undiscovered ones).
The authors' approach to Unix security is holistic and clever; they devote as much space to security philosophy as to advice about closing TCP ports and disabling unnecessary services. They also recognize that lots of Unix machines are development platforms, and make many recommendations to consider as you design software. It's rare that you read a page in this carefully compiled book that does not impart some obscure nugget of knowledge, or remind you to implement some important policy. Plus, the authors have a style that reminds their readers that computing is supposed to be about intellectual exercise and fun, an attitude that's absent from too much of the information technology industry lately. Read this book if you use any flavor of Unix in any mission-critical situation. --David Wall
Topics covered: Security risks (and ways to limit them) under Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD. Coverage ranges from responsible system administration (including selection of usernames and logins) to intrusion detection, break-in forensics, and log analysis. [via]
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Prime Numbers: A Computational Perspectivesby Richard Crandall, Carl PomeranceISBN 0387947779 (0-387-94777-9)
Hardcover, Springer Verlag
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Primes and Programming: An Introduction to Number Theory With Computingby P. J. GiblinISBN 0521409888 (0-521-40988-8)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryptionby Whitfield Diffie, Susan LandauISBN 0262042401 (0-262-04240-1)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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Programming Pearlsby Jon Louis BentleyISBN 0201657880 (0-201-65788-0)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreakingby David KahnISBN 0300098464 (0-300-09846-4)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Room 40: British Naval Intelligence, 1914-18by Patrick BeeslyISBN 0241108640 (0-241-10864-0)
Hardcover, Hamilton
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Room Forty: British Naval Intelligence 1914-18by Patrick BeeslyISBN 0151786348 (0-15-178634-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery, Chaos, and Wealth from the Compass to the Internetby Debora L. SparISBN 0151005095 (0-15-100509-5)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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The Sigint Secrets: The Signals Intelligence War, 1900 to Today--Including the Persecution of Gordon Welchmanby Nigel WestISBN 0688076521 (0-688-07652-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Ssh, the Secure Shell: The Definitive Guideby Daniel Barrett, Richard E. Silverman, Robert G. ByrnesISBN 0596008953 (0-596-00895-3)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ssh, the Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide'Book summary:The suite of utility applications that Unix users and administrators find indispensable--Telnet, rlogin, FTP, and the rest--can in fact prove to be the undoing of interconnected systems. The Secure Shell, aka SSH, which isn't a true shell at all, provides your otherwise attack-prone utilities with the protection they need. SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide explains how to use SSH at all levels. In a blended sequence, the book explains what SSH is all about, how it fits into a larger security scheme, and how to employ it as an everyday user with an SSH client. More technically detailed chapters show how to configure a SSH server--several variants are covered--and how to integrate SSH with non-Unix client platforms.
As befits its detail- and variation-rich subject, this book comprises many specialised sections, each dealing with some specific aspect of use or configuration (setting up access control at the account level, for example, or generating keys for a particular SSH server). The writing is both informative and fun to read; the authors switch back and forth between text and entry-and-response listings from SSH machines. They often run through a half-dozen or more variants on the same command in a few pages, providing the reader with lots of practical information. The discussion of how SSH fits into a Kerberos Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is great, as is the advice on defeating particular kinds of attacks. --David Wall
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- The Secure Shell (SSH) for installers, administrators, and everyday users
- SSH design and operation
- Server setup
- SSH agents
- Client configuration
- Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) integration
- SSH1
- SSH2
- F-Secure
- OpenSSH for Unix
- SSH1 and SecureCRT for Microsoft Windows
- NiftyTelnet SSH for Mac OS
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Turing's Deliriumby Edmundo Paz-Soldan, Lisa CarterISBN 0618872590 (0-618-87259-0)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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The town of Río Fugitivo is on the verge of a social revolution -- not a revolution of strikes and street riots but a war waged electronically, in which computer viruses are the weapons and hackers the revolutionaries.
In this war of information, the lives of a variety of characters become entangled: Kandisky, the mythic leader of a group of hackers fighting the government and transnational companies; Albert, the founder of the Black Chamber, a state security firm charged with deciphering the secret codes used in the information war; and Miguel Sáenz, the Black Chambers most famous codebreaker, who begins to suspect that his work is not as innocent as he once supposed. All converge to create an edgy, fast-paced story about personal responsibility and complicity in a world defined by the ever-increasing gulfs between the global and the local, government and society, the virtual and the real.
Two Issues in Public Key Cryptography: Rsa Bit Security and a New Knapsack Type Systemby Ben-Zion ChorISBN 0262031213 (0-262-03121-3)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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The Twofish Encryption Algorithm: A 128-Bit Block Cipherby David Wagner, Bruce Schneier, John Kelsey, Chris Hall, Doug Whiting, Niels FergusonISBN 0471353817 (0-471-35381-7)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Twofish Encryption Algorithm: A 128-Bit Block Cipher'Book summary:The first and only guide to one of today's most important new cryptography algorithms The Twofish Encryption Algorithm A symmetric block cipher that accepts keys of any length, up to 256 bits, Twofish is among the new encryption algorithms being considered by the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) as a replacement for the DES algorithm. Highly secure and flexible, Twofish works extremely well with large microprocessors, 8-bit smart card microprocessors, and dedicated hardware. Now from the team who developed Twofish, this book provides you with your first detailed look at:
* All aspects of Twofish's design and anatomy
* Twofish performance and testing results
* Step-by-step instructions on how to use it in your systems
* Complete source code, in C, for implementing Twofish
On the companion Web site you'll find:
* A direct link to Counterpane Systems for updates on Twofish
* A link to the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) for ongoing information about the competing technologies being considered for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for the next millennium
For updates on Twofish and the AES process, visit these sites:
* www.wiley.com/compbooks/schneier
* www.counterpane.com
* www.nist.gov/aes
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Ultra Goes To Warby Robert LewinISBN 0141390425 (0-14-139042-5)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneersby Tom StandageISBN 0425171698 (0-425-17169-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers'Book summary:"A fascinating walk through a pivotal period in human history."--USA TodayFor many people, the Internet is the epitome of cutting-edge technology. But in the nineteenth century, the first online communications network was already in place--the telegraph. And at the time, it was just as perplexing, controversial, and revolutionary as the Internet is today. The Victorian Internet tells the story of the telegraph's creation and remarkable impact, and of the visionaries, oddballs, and eccentrics who pioneered it. With the invention of the telegraph, the world of communications was forever changed. The telegraph gave rise to creative business practices and new forms of crime. Romances blossomed over its wires. And attitudes toward everything from news gathering to war had to be completely rethought. The saga of the telegraph offers many parallels to that of the Internet in our own time, and is a remarkable episode in the history of technology.* Illustrated throughout* A masterful, lively blend of science and history, in the bestselling tradition of Longitude"Fascinating...If you've ever hankered for a perspective on media Net hype, this book is for you."--Wired"Sparkling."--Forbes"Essential reading for those caught up in our own information revolution."--Christian Science Monitor [via]
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