Real-World Cryptography

By: David Wong

Narrated by: Derek Dysart

Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins

Publisher's summary

A practical guide to the cryptography behind common tools and protocols that will help you make excellent security choices for your systems and applications. 

In Real-World Cryptography, you will find:

• Best practices for using cryptography
• Diagrams and explanations of cryptographic algorithms
• Implementing digital signatures and zero-knowledge proofs
• Specialized hardware for attacks and highly adversarial environments
• Identifying and fixing bad practices
• Choosing the right cryptographic tool for any problem

Real-World Cryptography reveals the cryptographic techniques that drive the security of web APIs, registering and logging in users, and even the blockchain. You’ll learn how these techniques power modern security and how to apply them to your own projects. Alongside modern methods, the book also anticipates the future of cryptography, diving into emerging and cutting-edge advances such as cryptocurrencies and post-quantum cryptography. 

About the Technology

Cryptography is the essential foundation of IT security. To stay ahead of the bad actors attacking your systems, you need to understand the tools, frameworks, and protocols that protect your networks and applications. This book introduces authentication, encryption, signatures, secret-keeping, and other cryptography concepts in plain language.

About the Book

Real-World Cryptography teaches practical techniques for day-to-day work as a developer, sysadmin, or security practitioner. There’s no complex math or jargon. You’ll learn building blocks like hash functions and signatures, and cryptographic protocols like HTTPS and secure messaging. This audiobook is a joy to listen to - and it might just save your bacon the next time you’re targeted by an adversary after your data. 

About the Audience

For cryptography beginners with no previous experience in the field.

About the Author

David Wong is a cryptography engineer. He is an active contributor to internet standards, including Transport Layer Security.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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Pretty high overview of cryptography algorithms but author fails to make it so

So author says he will briefly describe some algorithms in cryptography- but he fails to describe them and goes into implementation and does it too deep and too shallow at the same time. I would say it is not readable, even with paper copy

a well written book

really enjoyed this book, the audiobook version was a strong companion to the kindle version, i recommend both. the topic and accuracy is well worth it

Great book, but better when read than listened

As this is a technical text with many sections, bullet points, figures etc, listening to it is not it is not a great experience. The accompanying pdf is empty and frequent sections break reading flow. Reading from an (e-)book would have been nicer.

Abysmal narration

The narrator blunders his way through. His frequent and painful mispronunciations warrant a Bingo card. What kind of editors and production team let this level of performance go uncorrected? I'm baffled. Also, the narrator entirely skips over many figures destroying any ability to follow the details e.g. of RSA. Avoid this audiobook at all costs.