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Alternatives to Silence on the Wire
Books in our catalog with overlapping topics and a similar reading level to Silence on the Wire. If Silence on the Wire is the wrong fit at advanced level, start here.
01 · 2015
Sécurité informatique
A rigorous academic course on the foundations of security — cryptography, authentication, access control — with corrected exercises, from a team of well-known French and Swiss cryptographers.
Advanced4/5Gildas Avoine, Pascal Junod, Philippe Oechslin, Sylvain Pasini02 · 2023
Exercices et problèmes de cryptographie
A rigorous problem book for learning cryptography — over 150 corrected exercises with course summaries, for L3/master/engineering students — by a French academic cryptographer.
Advanced3/5Damien Vergnaud03 · 2017
Attacking Network Protocols
James Forshaw, Project Zero veteran, on how to capture, parse, and break protocols from the wire up to the application layer, with a strong focus on building reusable analysis tooling.
Advanced5/5James Forshaw04 · 2009
Nmap Network Scanning
Written by Nmap's own author, this is both a gentle introduction to port scanning and the definitive reference for every flag, timing knob, and NSE script the tool ships with.
Beginner4/5Gordon Fyodor Lyon05 · 2018
Social Engineering
Christopher Hadnagy's broad procedural reference on social engineering as a discipline — recon, pretexting, elicitation, microexpressions, and the structured engagement model his consultancy operationalized.
Intermediate4/5Christopher Hadnagy06 · 2013
Sécurité informatique
A principles-first treatment of information security for DSI, RSSI and sysadmins — architecture, cryptography, network defence and security policy — from two veteran French practitioners.
Advanced4/5Laurent Bloch, Christophe Wolfhugel07 · 2009
Les virus informatiques
The reference French academic treatment of computer virology — the theory, algorithms and practice of viruses and malicious code — by Éric Filiol, a former military cryptanalyst and one of France's leading virologists.
Advanced4/5Éric Filiol08 · 2005
Reversing
The book that taught a generation how software actually looks once you strip away the source. Still the clearest on-ramp to thinking in assembly, even with dated tools.
Intermediate4/5Eldad Eilam09 · 2010
Understanding Cryptography
A genuinely teachable intro to modern cryptography that derives the math instead of hand-waving it, covering symmetric and public-key primitives without drowning you in proofs.
Intermediate4/5Christof Paar, Jan Pelzl10 · 2010
Tableaux de bord de la sécurité réseau
A practitioner's manual for measuring and steering network security — metrics, dashboards, monitoring and risk indicators — for the people who run security operations.
Advanced3/5Cédric Llorens, Laurent Levier, Denis Valois