[Ilugc] resources for network security in linux
- From: girish1729@xxxxxxxxx (Girish Venkatachalam)
- Date: Tue Aug 1 11:32:55 2006
--- Balachandran Sivakumar <contactsbala@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hello all,
Can anybody please suggest some good
books/resources/websites/ebooks for network
security.
*) Applied Cryptography by Bruce Shneier (around 40$)
(Bible of every cryptographer)
*)Handbook of cryptography
(
http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/) Too
mathematical - stay away from it! :-) But it is free
to download.
*) A simple google search will throw up lot of links.
Many of which are good. I used to like the FAQ in
www.rsasecurity.com
Bear in mind that certain concepts like public key
cryptography take a *lot* of time to understand and
sink in.
Even "The Code Book" by Simon Singh is good.
For practical exposure to crypto I suggest you join
openssl-users@xxxxxxxxxxx and install and try out
www.openssl.org
This comes standard with all Unices these days.
You could also take a look at
www.openbsd.org once you get really hooked onto
crypto. They have a browseable CVS interface of the
entire source tree and you will find lot of treasures
there. Especially kernel crypto used for IPsec,
hardware engines and so on.
I think it is /usr/src/sys/crypto for crypto code.
And IPsec is under /usr/src/sys/netinet
But take one step at a time. It is a penance of
several years.
Wish you all the best!
Crypto is the most fascinating topic and the smartest
brains on the planet are at work in it!
Best,
Girish
also please give some sites where network secutiry
related code can be
downloaded.
--
Thank you
Balachandran Siva
Arise, Awake and stop not till the goal is reached
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