If you want to know how the Soviet standard GOST block cipher works, Applied is a great book. If you want to learn about obscure challenge-response authentication protocols nobody uses in the real world, again, Applied is your book. If you need to look up what a "Vigenere cipher" is, because you're reading something about crypto written by someone who doesn't do crypto, Applied is there for you.
But if you want to know how to implement a protocol that uses Diffie Hellman, RSA, AES and SHA1 to protect traffic without introducing 40 errors any of which completely negate the security of the algorithms you're using, you need a very different book from Applied. That book was Practical Cryptography, and now it's Cryptography Engineering.
But if you want to know how to implement a protocol that uses Diffie Hellman, RSA, AES and SHA1 to protect traffic without introducing 40 errors any of which completely negate the security of the algorithms you're using, you need a very different book from Applied. That book was Practical Cryptography, and now it's Cryptography Engineering.
Very nice! Since I wanted a book which also explains the implementation details of various cryptography algorithms, I asked my coworker if he knew one (I bought Kryptographie (Amazon.de: http://bit.ly/cxxAQT), which didn't explain anything about implementations, but is a good read for other various reasons). He recommended me Applied Cryptography and I was going to order it. This was yesterday. Today I read your tweet (http://twitter.com/tqbf/status/8879609339) and was going to have a look at Practical Cryptography. And now thanks to your hint, I preordered Cryptography Engineering. Thanks for that :).
But if you want to know how to implement a protocol that uses Diffie Hellman, RSA, AES and SHA1 to protect traffic without introducing 40 errors any of which completely negate the security of the algorithms you're using, you need a very different book from Applied. That book was Practical Cryptography, and now it's Cryptography Engineering.