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Practical Data Security

I started trying to write a book on practical data security for developers; it’s kind of stalled but I’d like to publish chapters here.

Introduction to Crypto

Before I got it in my head to write a book, I wrote a short article to explain the basics of cryptography, illustrated with Python (and specifically, the PyCrypto library. I published the article on my blog and I have a PDF available.

The book so far:

  1. Outline
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter 1: Introduction to Data Security
  5. Chapter 2: Practical Introduction to Cryptography
  6. Chapter 3: Trust, Usability, and the Social Security Problem
  7. Chapter 4: Practical Threat Modeling
  8. Bibliography

You should consider all of these chapters as drafts. Some are still in the process of being written. I’ve put them up for peer review, and because maybe they can help you now.

I’ve been using easybook to build ‘publishable’ versions of the work in progress.