Author(s) : Richard A. Mollin
Publisher : Chapman and Hall/CR
Year : Oct 2006
ISBN 10 : 1584886188
ISBN 13 : 9781584886181
Language : English
Pages : 413
File type : PDF
Size : 2.2 MB

An Introduction to Cryptography provides a solid mathematical treatment of cryptography for readers with little or no background in number theory. Although intended for undergraduate students, it contains enough optional, advanced material to challenge even the most informed reader and provides a solid basis for a second course on the subject. Throughout the book, the author incorporates nearly 300 problems, more than 80 examples, and over 60 diagrams, figures, and tables, as well as optional topics that go beyond the basics. An extensive index, appendices that review background material, and a list of symbols for easy reference complete this outstanding text.

This edition presents the ideas behind cryptography and the applications of the subject. The first chapter provides a thorough treatment of the mathematics necessary to understand cryptography, including number theory and complexity, while the second chapter discusses cryptographic fundamentals, such as ciphers, linear feedback shift registers, modes of operation, and attacks. The next several chapters discuss DES, AES, public-key cryptography, primality testing, and various factoring methods, from classical to elliptical curves. The final chapters are comprised of issues pertaining to the Internet, such as pretty good privacy (PGP), protocol layers, firewalls, and cookies, as well as applications, including login and network security, viruses, smart cards, and biometrics. The book concludes with appendices on mathematical data, computer arithmetic, the Rijndael S-Box, knapsack ciphers, the Silver-Pohlig-Hellman algorithm, the SHA-1 algorithm, radix-64 encoding, and quantum cryptography.

One of the greatest book of Maya with tons of tips of animation, modeling, rendering etc.The Art of Maya is amust for every 3D designer.

Title: Adobe After Effects 7 - Rock Solid Foundation
Author: Chad Perkins
SKU: 33695
ISBN: 1-933736-26-7
Release Date: 2006-06-16
Price: Single User: US$ 99.95
Multi User(10): US$ 500.00
Duration: 9.5 hrs / 131 lessons
Compatibility: Win Vista, XP, 2000, 98SE, Mac OS X, OS 9, Linux
Work Files: Yes

Author(s) : Jeffrey Hasan, Kenneth Tu
Publisher : Apress
Year : Mar 2003
ISBN 10 : 1590590724
ISBN 13 : 9781590590720
Language : English
Pages : 392
File type : CHM
Size : 6.7 MB (book + source code)

This book is for intermediate to advanced .NET developers who need answers to the hard questions on how to build high-performance ASP.NET applications. Authors Jeffrey Hasan and Kenneth Tu focus on how to make good design decisions for performance. They discuss how to develop applications with performance in mind. And they pay special attention to the tools available to developers to quantify and monitor performance issues and to diagnose performance problems more quickly.

Performance Tuning and Optimizing ASP.NET Applications provides a detailed review of how to tune and optimize ASP.NET applications for maximum performance. Currently, the market is being flooded with a slew of books on how to write .NET applications, but so far there has not been a title that is devoted to the more advanced topic of tuning and optimizing ASP.NET applications. There will be an increasing demand for this information as developers get comfortable with the technology and begin completing first versions of their ASP.NET applications. They will be looking for a book that dispenses with basic language tutorials, and instead tackles the real-world issues of performance.

Intermediate to experienced developers, who are either working on an ASP.NET development project or are about to start one, will find this book helpful for its concise information on how to design and write ASP.NET applications for optimal performance. The book focuses on performance tuning from a development perspective, rather than an infrastructure perspective. However, the book does address specific development issues that arise in common server architectures, such as Web farms.

This book focuses on building high-performance Web applications using Microsoft's ASP.NET technology. Pure and simple. The technical book market today is being flooded with a slew of titles on how to build applications with .NET technology, and many are undoubtedly very good. But the majority of these titles simply take a "how-to" approach on how to program with the .NET Framework. They often pay little more than cursory attention to the real-world issues and challenges that developers face. The learning curve for .NET clearly starts with understanding the Common Language Runtime (CLR) and the new Class Framework because they enable you to actually build your application. But from there, the learning curve shifts toward more complex and less neat issues such as design decisions and the relative performance of one technical approach over another. At this level, it is no longer a question of how you implement a feature.

Author(s) : James J. Townsend, Dmitri Riz, Deon Schaffer
Publisher : Addison Wesley
Year : Mar 2004
ISBN 10: 0321159632
ISBN 13: 9780321159632
Language : English
Pages : 544
File type : CHM
Size : 6.5 MB

This book is a practical guide for developers and information technology managers. It is focused on conveying what elements make up a portal and how to construct these elements using the Microsoft development platform. It is a combination of introductions to key concepts, suggestions for portal planning, and limited detailed technical instruction by way of examples that relate to all the main portal elements. Most chapters describe what to build and then show how to build it.

The most important section for managers is the first five chapters. These chapters address the portal from the perspective of a user and provide valuable background that can help managers form reasonable project expectations. The focus is not on individual products and features. Indeed, portals with the functionality described here could be implemented with a number of different technologies and products, and these are introduced in the second part of the book.

Developers will spend more time with the remainder of the book to understand how to fill the gap between products and where each portal service belongs. They will want to review the early chapters to understand the vision for a .NET portal and to ensure that the IT manager doesn't know something that they don't. These later chapters do not attempt to restate the vast amount of information in help files and product documentation for the products used in our examples. Rather, our goal is to create a higher-level overview that encompasses multiple products and puts each product and feature in its proper place. We also highlight best practices and hints that are not found in the product documentation but can save many hours of work or frustration.

There are no prerequisites for grasping the material in this book, as it explains the anatomy of a portal from the ground up. Our goals are to provide a compelling vision for portals that can be applied to your business requirements and to explain in detail how this vision maps to the Microsoft .NET Framework and web services.

Web mining aims to discover useful information or knowledge from the Web hyperlink structure, page content and usage log. Based on the primary kind of data used in the mining process, Web mining tasks are categorized into three main types: Web structure mining, Web content mining and Web usage mining. The goal of this book is to present these tasks, and their essential algorithms. It is written for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, researchers and development professionals in the field. No prior knowledge of data mining or statistics is assumed. In fact, the book covers the essential topics of data mining as well.

Author(s) : David L. Mills
Publisher : CRC Press
Year : Mar 2006
ISBN 10: 0849358051
ISBN 13: 9780849358050
Language : English
Pages : 304
File type : PDF
Size : 7.8 MB

This book is all about wrangling a herd of network computers so that all display the correct time. This may seem like a really narrow business, but the issues go far beyond winding the clock on your display taskbar. Carefully coordinated, reliable, and accurate time is vital for traffic control in the air and on the ground, buying and selling things, and TV network programming. Even worse, ill-gotten time might cause domain name system (DNS) caches to expire and the entire Internet to implode on the root servers, which was considered a serious threat on the eve of the millennium in 1999. Critical data files might expire before they are created, and an electronic message might arrive before it was sent. Reliable and accurate computer time is necessary for any real-time distributed computer application, which is what much of our public infrastructure has become.

This book speaks to the technological infrastructure of time dissemination, distribution, and synchronization, specifically the architecture, protocols, and algorithms of the Network Time Protocol (NTP). NTP has been active in one form or another for more than two decades on the public Internet and numerous private networks on the nether side of firewalls. Just about everything today that can be connected to a network wire has support for NTP — print servers, Wi-Fi access points, routers of every stripe, and even battery backup systems. NTP subnets are in space, on the seabed, on board warships, and on every continent, including Antarctica. NTP comes with Windows/XP and NT2000, as well as all flavors of Unix.

This book is designed primarily as a reference book, but is suitable for a specialized university course at the senior or graduate level in both computer engineering and computer science departments. Some chapters may go down more easily for an electrical engineer, especially those dealing with mathematical concepts; others more easily for a computer scientist, especially those dealing with computing theory, but each will learn from the other. There are things for mathematicians and cryptographers, even something for historians.

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