Digital Certificates: Applied Internet Security |
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Jalal Feghhi, Peter Williams
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Pages: 480 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0201309807
Pub: Addison Wesley
Pub date: 1998-10-20
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 462808
Editorial Review:
Because the Internet is based on connectionless protocols that route messages through more or less public machines, standard means of Internet communication offer no guarantees of integrity or authenticity. A variety of schemes have sprung up to solve this problem and Digital Certificates: Applied Internet Security does a great job of explaining the Microsoft approach to securing Internet communications.
Helpfully, the authors spend a fair amount of time explaining the problem of network security and the broad technologies (public-key encryption, key length considerations, authentication and so on). Having explained the universe in which a security system must work, they then show how to acquire a digital certificate from a certification authority (CA). From there, they show how to use the digital certificate with several pieces of software, including Internet Explorer 3 and 4 (but not 5), Netscape Communicator 4, and Outlook Express 4.
Of more interest to administrators and developers are code snippets that show how to request and process digital certificates in a variety of environments, including Active Server Pages (ASP) and Java. There's background information on the newly standardised Public Key Infrastructure with X.509 (PKIX) and the Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) standard for financial operations, too. Coverage of Microsoft Certificate Server includes a lot of programming information, including coverage of the Policy and Exit Modules. --David Wall, amazon.com
Topics covered: Encryption, authentication, X.509 digital certificates, certification authorities, S/MIME, trust relationships and Microsoft Certificate Server.
Reader Reviews:
A wordy and pseudo-academic work, not reader friendly. (1/1 people found this helpful)
It's something of a trait in the security industry for authors to write reams of text (the infamous Alice and Bob stories), rather than use pictures to explain simple concepts. You really have to fight to extract the concepts from this book, and the first useful flowchart explaining how certificates work takes about 1/3 of the book to appear.
Think twice (1/1 people found this helpful)
Look at the certificates from a Microsoft View, So be carefull when you buy. Examples are not good and practical.
A must-have (1/1 people found this helpful)
This is not the definitive book about digital signatures and internet security, but one of the few of them available today, wrote by 3 experts. Interesting for programmers using Microsoft Platform.
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