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My work in information security began when I was in graduate school. First and foremost, I want to thank my thesis advisor, Clyde F. Martin, for introducing me to this fascinating subject.

In my seven‐plus years at NSA, I learned more about security than I could have learned in a lifetime anywhere else. From my time in industry, I want to thank Joe Pasqua and Paul Clarke for giving me the opportunity to work on a fascinating and challenging project.

For the first edition, Richard Low, a colleague here at SJSU, provided helpful feedback on an early version of the manuscript. David Blockus (God rest his soul) deserves special mention for providing detailed comments on each chapter at a particularly critical juncture in the writing of that first edition.

For the second edition, many of my SJSU students “volunteered” to serve as proofreaders, and many other people provided helpful comments and suggestions. Here, I would like to call out John Trono (Saint Michael's College) for his many detailed comments and questions.

For this third edition, students too numerous to list have made positive contributions to virtually every aspect of the book. But, I would like to single out Vanessa Gaeke and Sravani Yajamanam for special thanks. Both of these outstanding students carefully read the manuscript and asked thoughtful and thought‐provoking questions that significantly improved the book that you see before you.

Like any big software project, no amount of debugging will uncover all bugs in a book of this size and scope. Any remaining flaws are, of course, your humble author's responsibility alone.