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Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++: Recipes for Cryptography, Authentication, Input Validation & More Review by anonymous
A task-oriented reference guide
This well-written book covers a lot of topics that I have not read in other books.
Its strengths include:
--Good coverage of cryptography programming
--Task-oriented solutions to specific programming problems
--Easy to navigate "cookbook" style ("with recipes" as the authors call them)However, some areas of improvement might be:
--Could use more coverage of important subjects (buffer overflows, etc.)
--spends a lot of space on narrower examples (like explaining certain APIs that are documented well online)
--Sometimes jumps into material without much background explanation (which was confusing for me)It is probably not the first book you should read on the subject. This is more of a recipe guide that is useful if you get stuck on coding a particular topic that happens to be covered. The authors have done a good job of explaining what coverage they do and don't include.