Some of my books



Here are some of my books. Please write if you have questions, thoughts, comments, complaints, or praise.
--Peter Wayner
p3 (at) wayner.org




Translucent Databases

How do you provide useful services to customers and users without storing sensitive or personal information.

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Policing Online Games

How to stop cheating in online games.

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Java RAMBO Manifesto

How to build screamingly fast, very lightweight Java applications without databases to slow them down.

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Disappearing Cryptography, 2nd Edition

How to hide information where no one can find it.

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Free for All: How Linux and the Free Software Movement Undercut the High-Tech Titans

A great survey of how the open source software philosophy is changing how we create and share software.
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Agents Unleashed

This book tells how to build autonomous software agents that roam the network without causing harm. Some call them tame viruses. The book is listed as "out of print" by some big sellers. I have a few copies and others may be available directly from the publisher.

Digital Cash 2nd Edition

Cash and electronic transactions over the Internet can be safe. This book describes some of the most basic techniques for transfering money as well as some of the most extreme and outlandish.
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Disappearing Cryptography

Conventional cryptography is like shipping a safe in an armored car with a regiment of soldiers around it. Everyone knows that there's something secret inside. This book describes steganography, the science of hiding or disguising information so it can only be found by someone who knows where to look.
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Java and Javascript Programming

A great basic introduction to the two most important languages on the web today.

Java Beans Programming

Java Beans are a wonderful object model that make it easier to write extensible, object-oriented code.
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Digital Copyright Protection

There's no reason why copyright stops working in an on-line world. This book describes a number of different techniques for controlling digital information by adding watermarks and other hidden bits.

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Compression Algorithms

If time is money, then anything that can save transmission time might be valuable. This book is a great conceptual description of the most important compression algorithms in use today. Click here for error corrections.
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