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README.md

security-engineering-3rd-edition-ebook

This is just the script to generate a combined PDF from the currently-online-chapters available for review.

The script also takes care of putting in the right bookmarks for all the chapters in the generated PDF file.

Go read the book from the source at https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html

Chapters

See titles.txt for the bookmark titles used by the script.

Preface
Chapter 1: What is Security Engineering?
Chapter 2: Who is the Opponent?
Chapter 3: Psychology and Usability
Chapter 4: Protocols
Chapter 5: Cryptography
Chapter 6: Access Control
Chapter 7: Distributed Systems
Chapter 8: Economics
Chapter 9: Multilevel Security
Chapter 10: Boundaries
Chapter 11: Inference Control
Chapter 12: Banking and Bookkeeping
Chapter 13: Physical Protection
Chapter 14: Monitoring and Metering
Chapter 15: Nuclear Command and Control
Chapter 16: Security Printing and Seals
Chapter 17: Biometrics
Chapter 18: Physical Tamper Resistance
Chapter 19: Side Channels
Chapter 20: Advanced Cryptographic Engineering
Chapter 21: Network Attack and Defence
Chapter 22: Phones
Chapter 23: Electronic and Information Warfare
Chapter 25: Surveillance or Privacy?
Chapter 26: Managing the Development of Secure Systems
Bibliography

How to generate the book?

Run ./generate.sh. You will need pdftk, and wget installed. Alternatively, you can run it using Docker😀

Docker

docker run --detach --name security-engineering-ebook captn3m0/security-engineering-ebook
7553d55547603b0e3d47332f4cd55a126ace10e0e965547b0fae06e3c7b16229

docker logs security-engineering-ebook -f
Starting PDF download
All PDFs downloaded
PDF files combined
Bookmarks attached to PDF
PDF File generated: security-engineering-3rd-edition.pdf

docker cp security-engineering-ebook:/security-engineering-ebook/security-engineering-3rd-edition.pdf .

Once the script finishes running, check the security-engineering-3rd-edition.pdf file.

More Options?

You can run with the following 2 options:

--generate-metadata

To generate the meta.txt file which contains the list of bookmarks to be inserted. This is required if you make changes to the file lists. This also requires qpdf to be installed.

--download-cover-image

Download the cover image. The repo already has a cover.pdf file which is used by default. Do this if the cover URL changes. Requires wget to be installed.

Support the Authors

Buy the second editions from:

A combined PDF of the first edition is available directly from the author at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/SEv1.pdf.

Contributing

The list of URLs is maintained at urls.txt and might need to be updated. File a PR if this breaks?

Extra

A list of my other EBook generation projects: https://captnemo.in/ebooks/, includes a link to other related projects as well

License

The little code in this repo is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE file for details.