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  • Cryptography

  • The Key to Digital Security, How It Works, and Why It Matters
  • By: Keith Martin
  • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
  • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (43 ratings)

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Cryptography

By: Keith Martin
Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
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Despite its reputation as a language only of spies and hackers, cryptography plays a critical role in our everyday lives. Though often invisible, it underpins the security of our mobile phone calls, credit card payments, web searches, internet messaging, and cryptocurrencies - in short, everything we do online. Increasingly, it also runs in the background of our smart refrigerators, thermostats, electronic car keys, and even the cars themselves. As our daily devices get smarter, cyberspace - home to all the networks that connect them - grows.

Broadly defined as a set of tools for establishing security in this expanding cyberspace, cryptography enables us to protect and share our information. Understanding the basics of cryptography is the key to recognizing the significance of the security technologies we encounter every day, which will then help us respond to them.

What are the implications of connecting to an unprotected Wi-Fi network? Is it really so important to have different passwords for different accounts? Is it safe to submit sensitive personal information to a given app or to convert money to Bitcoin? In clear, concise writing, information security expert Keith Martin answers all these questions and more, revealing the many crucial ways we all depend on cryptographic technology.

©2020 Keith Martin (P)2020 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
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High Quality, Professional Book

This is exactly what I had hoped for. High Quality book on encryption that covers everything except for the really technical details of the actual mathematics behind each type of encryption.

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Good intro

this was my first technical audio book. the narrator did a great job. expected this to be borring as most technical material is.

***If you're looking for a more in-depth look at crypto, this is a book, is not it.***

what this book is, is a very excellent overview of cryptography. to help non-technical people understand what's going on in cyberspace. For that purpose, I can recommend this book.

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Anxious about online security?

Absolutely read this book if you are anxious about security for your smart home or many personal computing devices. It is not an easy read, but the author and narrator are hilarious in their writing and in their delivery! You will be better informed and more relaxed by the end of it.

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Greatly enjoyed and learned

I’m studying for the Security+ exam and this audiobook was exactly what I wanted to help make cryptology interesting and much accessible to me. The narrator is excellent and unlike most other audiobooks about technically subjects that I’ve consumed so far, it was excellent and engaging in the audio format. Bravo on a great audiobook.

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very insightful

gives you a really good ground knowledge on cryptography and touch a little bitcoin but mostly about our own security

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Not good for audio

Too technical for audio. Needs to stay in type written format and not be used for audio. Good reference for hard type.

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