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Cybercriminalité vs Maîtriser la cryptographie d'aujourd'hui et de demain: Which Should You Read?

Two cybersecurity books on Foundations, compared honestly: who each is for, what each does best, and which to read first.

Intermediate

3/52023

Cybercriminalité

Comprendre, prévenir, réagir

Solange Ghernaouti

Solange Ghernaouti's structured treatment of cybercrime — how it works, how to prevent it, how to respond — spanning technical, legal and organisational angles.

Intermediate

4/52026

Maîtriser la cryptographie d'aujourd'hui et de demain

Des bases mathématiques aux standards post-quantiques

Mbaye Ngom

A cryptography engineer specializing in information-system security mechanisms, who also teaches the subject, builds from cryptography's mathematical foundations up to today's post-quantum standards.

Read this if

Students (law, management, engineering), managers and investigators who want a structured, up-to-date overview of cybercrime across technical, legal and human dimensions.

French-speaking readers who want a complete progression through cryptography, from mathematical foundations to recent post-quantum standards, written by someone who teaches the subject.

Skip this if

Practitioners wanting forensic or offensive technique; like Ghernaouti's other work, it's a structured survey, not a hands-on manual.

Readers who want only developer-facing applied cryptography (library choice, implementation) without the mathematical grounding; this book builds understanding from the foundations rather than skipping past them.

Key takeaways

A 2023 structured survey of cybercrime spanning technique, law and prevention — broad rather than deep.
Strong on the legal and organisational response that purely technical books skip.
A natural companion to Ghernaouti's Cybersécurité, focused on the criminal dimension.

One of the few French-language books to explicitly cover post-quantum standards, still a thin spot in the existing catalog.
Structured as a pedagogical progression, from mathematical foundations to current standards, by an author who teaches cryptography.
Fills a real gap: the catalog's existing French-language cryptography titles (La science du secret, Exercices et problèmes de cryptographie) are older or narrower in scope.

How they compare

We rate Maîtriser la cryptographie d'aujourd'hui et de demain higher (4/5 against 3/5 for Cybercriminalité). For most readers, that means Maîtriser la cryptographie d'aujourd'hui et de demain is the primary pick and Cybercriminalité is a useful follow-up.

Both books target intermediate-level readers, so the choice is about topic, not difficulty.

Cybercriminalité and Maîtriser la cryptographie d'aujourd'hui et de demain both cover Foundations, so reading them in sequence reinforces the same material from different angles.

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