Good overview, Bad editing

This book gives a comprehensive overview of IPSec and is certainly a better starting point than the original RFCs with their courier fonts, ascii graphics, and twisty mazes of footnotes. But you can only have so much overview before getting to the details. At that point, I suggest you go back to the RFCs: they are better written, contain fewer errors, and have a subtle sense of humor almost makes them fun to read.

This book seems to be the best available now, but it needs extensive editing and restructuring to make it a really good book. You'll probably want to get the "Big Book of IPSec RFCs" to go with it.

Other Reviews

• Poorly written, and full of factual errors.
• Comment from the author
• very poorly written
• Good overview, Bad editing