Re: Encryption basics - slightly off topic

Mike,

Bruce's book on Applied Cryptography is about the best going....also
there's several on compression out there...if you want a reference on
compression I'll take a look at the library when I get back home...

Also, Bruce sends out a monthly eletter that's really decent...checkout
http://www.counterpane.net/crypto-gram.html

Don in DC

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On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 Mike.Crump@saint-gobain.com wrote:

> I suppose this is not directly AS/400 related but there seems to have been
> enough discussion lately to warrant this question.
>
> Does anyone have an idea of a book that covers encryption basics (PGP, SSL,
> SSH, VPN, Public Key, Private Key, HTTPS, Telnet, FTP, etc.)?  There is of
> course some relevance to the AS/400 but this is more just to understand
> encryption basics.
>
> It seems like everytime I work on this my outside connection uses something
> different.  I have one vendor who uses SMTP and PKZIP files with passwords.
> Another one uses PGP as a default but only uses SSL on an exception basis,
> etc., etc., etc................and then there was the discussion on SSH.
>
> Michael Crump
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