[Cryptography] Preliminary review of the other Applied Cryptography

[Jennifer Bayuk]

>On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Sandy Harris ><sandyinchina at gmail.com >
wrote:
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>On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Dave Horsfall ><dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
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>> After battling through Schneier (a prerequisite before posting to this 
>> list), I am now reading "Handbook of Applied Cryptography", by 
>> Menezes, Oorschot, and Vanstone.
>
>Both fine books & well worth reading. Arguably some of Schneier's later
books are even better.
>
>However, if your main interest is how to build secure systems, I'd put
Anderson's "Security Engineering" at the top of the list:
>
>https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html
>
Catching up on this discussion late, but having spent significant time
reviewing security engineering textbooks, I will chime in on that topic.
Admittedly, there are far too few, but two noteworthy endeavors are:
Sherwood, J., A. Clark, and D. Lynas, Enterprise Security Architecture.
2005: CMP Books.
and
Jacobs, S., Engineering Information Security. 2011: Wiley.
While I did not sufficiently appreciate the Sherwood, Lynas and Clark book
until it unfortunately went out of print, its common-sense wisdom keeps
sending me back to quote it.
While Jacobs book is less entertaining than Anderson's, its technical
content surpasses it.