Acknowledgments for Practical Cryptography (the 1st Edition)

This book is based on our collective experience over the many years we have worked in cryptography. We are heavily indebted to all the people we worked with. They made our work fun and helped us reach the insights that fill this book. We would also like to thank our customers, both for providing the funding that enabled us to continue our cryptography research and for providing the real-world experiences necessary to write this book.

Certain individuals deserve special mention. Beth Friedman conducted an invaluable copyediting job, and Denise Dick greatly improved our manuscript by proofreading it. John Kelsey provided valuable feedback on the cryptographic contents. And the Internet made our collaboration possible. We would also like to thank Carol Long and the rest of the team at Wiley for bringing our ideas to reality.

And finally, we would like to thank all of the programmers in the world who continue to write cryptographic code and make it available, free of charge, to the world.