E-mail Security : How to Keep Your Electronic Messages Private

Rating:
Summary: A Great Text on Encryption
Review: For beginners and advanced tinkerers alike, this book is very readable for a technical manual. This is one of the best available on this subject, particularly being comprehensive and dealing with email.

The author is a crypto and computer security consultant.

Includes detailed information on:

PGP and PEM encryption programs,
DES and IDEA encryption algorithms,
The RSA and DSA public-key algorithms,
Key management (critical in security), and
Patent and export issues -- who "owns" the programs

Rating:
Summary: For people that want to understand encryption
Review: The book gives a good basic understanding on encryption,and the e-mail system. Great for a person that wants to know how to secure their e-mail.