Books

Hey, I got about 1000 dollars with of book cert's and I want to use them before I lose them. I was wondering if you guys could give me some good book titles under these certain categories.

Cryptography, Security Analysts, TCP/IP books, or just some other general books you have read and think are worth mentioning.

Thanks for your time.

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Might want to check out :

Hacking Exposed (Mcclue, Scambray, Kurtz)
Computer Networks (Andrew Tanenbaum) : IMHO, a very good book that I don't see mentioned terribly often, goes through all layers of the TCP/IP stack, from local loops to T1's, to application layers stuff like encryption (including descriptions of the DES algorithm) and the mundane like web browsing.
TCP/IP Illustrated (Stevens)

Neb

along with the above suggestion for tcp/ip illustrated (these top my list).


Title: Applied Cryptography, 2nd ed.
Author: Bruce Schneier
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0-471-11709-9

Title: Modelling and Analysis of Security Protocols
Authors: Peter Ryan & Steve Schneider
Publisher: Addison Wesley
ISBN: 0-201-67471-8

Title: UNIX Network Programming - Networking API's: Sockets and XTI (Volume 1, 2nd ed.)
Author: W. Richard Stevens
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 0-13-490012-X

i would also agree with nebulus200 about hacking exposed

im reading it at the moment, tells you everything you need to know and it it about 700-800 pages long, in small print.
but it is very informative and comes with a selection of tools on a cd.highly recomend it.

the lates version also covers wirless networks and wap

Hacking Exposed. Obvious choice and I must say the big red book is worth a read.
Check out IRC and ask around, many of the guys there will give you more exact titles.

To anybody else check out your library for some oldies but goldies.

Was searching to find more info on this book to see what the opinion was on it.

I checked the 2nd edition out of the college library over Holiday break and so far it is very good.

Crypto sure here is a good and short book Cracking DES secrets of encryption research, wiretap politics and chip desing

isbn 1-56592-520-3

out o print in most places i got mine in a zellers for 9.99 its got code for the cracker and chips that they built

For Security analyst..I've been reading:
-Hack Attacks Revealed by John Chrillo
-Maximum Linux Security SAMS
-Hack IT. security through Penetration Testing By T.J Klevinsky,Scott Laliberte, Ajay Gupta.
I haven't finished read those books...it's a good books..but they are god damm..thick books...
General:
-Linux Just For Fun by Linus Torvald