by Jalal Feghhi and Peter Williams
Sales Rank: 141977
List Price: $49.99 $42.49 At Amazon
Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional October 9, 1998
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0201309807
ISBN-13: 978-0201309805
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 7.4 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
Customer Reviews & Comments
This book is a classic example on how not to write a book. First the authors were never clear on the intended audience. Sometimes they seem to be talking a grandmother touching a mouse for the first time, driving you crazy with obvious details. Other times they seem to be chatting to the boys in the backroom at Verisign, way over your head with undefined acronym soup. The book constantly uses terms without defining them. The books explains in great detail how to do unspeakable acts to a certificate server without first explaining WHY you might want to do such things or why you might want your own certificate server in the first place. Sometimes the book reads like a sales promo for Verisign where some of the authors work. The book does not explain how to compute any of the digests or public/private key computations, but it does give a reasonable overview of how they work. For a book on certificates, oddly it shows no examples, or their format. The authors did a reasonable, if somewhat belaboured, job of explaining S/MIME email signing and encryption. I have not encountered one before.
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