by Mark R. Nelson
Included in the C++ Standard Template Library is the priority_queue container adapter, a tool Mark finds perfect for creating Huffman encoding trees.
by Tong Lai Yu
Dynamic Markov Compression is a statistical compression technique that produces good results when applied to large binary files.
by D.R. McGregor, R.J. Fryer, P. Cockshott, and P. Murray
Our authors explain how fractal compression works, then present the Fast Fractal Transform--a family of algorithms that achieve a several-hundred-fold speed-up over the simple fractal transform.
by Bruce Schneier
Although the venerable Data Encryption Standard has been the workhorse of cryptography for nearly two decades, two new attacks--differential and linear cryptanalysis--are putting DES to the test.
by G. Jason Mathews
Before incorporating data compression into data-management software, Jason had to evaluate a variety of compression algorithms. Here is his report.
by Dean Clark
Octree quantization is a color-quantization technique that's both space efficient and fast. Dean discusses the algorithm, then implements it in C.
by Stefan Hoenig and Scot Wingo
Function-based interfaces don't give you object-oriented benefits, even when using C++ and frameworks like MFC. Stefan and Scot show you how to extend existing MFC classes to take advantage of object-oriented principles.
by Ian Goldberg and David Wagner
No one was more surprised than Netscape Communications when a pair of computer-science students broke the Netscape encryption scheme. Ian and David describe how they attacked the popular Web browser and what they found out.
by Victor J. Duvanenko, W.E. Robbins, and R.S. Gyurcsik
In an effort to improve line-clipping performance, our authors build on the Cohen-Sutherland line-clipping algorithm, extend it to 3-D, and introduce the Sutherland-Hodgman clipping algorithm.
by Trevor J. Pope
Many embedded systems require access control. Trevor implements the MD5 message-digest algorithm to implement one-way encryption of passwords.
by Andrew Wilson and Peter D. Varhol
Andrew and Peter present a TCP/IP-based chat program that demonstrates the basics of network communication under Windows 95.
by Jean-Louis Leroy
Jean-Louis finds out what's required to add multiple inheritance to Version 4.0 of the Microsoft Foundation Classes library.
by Gunter Born
After examining the TARGA graphics file format, Gunter builds a TARGA viewer using Borland's Delphi development environment.
by Michael Swaine
Alan Cooper's ideas about goal-centered user-interface design give Michael food for thought before he returns to public-domain programming languages.
by Al Stevens
After attending the Software Development '95 East conference, Al decides it's time to examine the latest in the ANSI C++ standardization process.
edited by Bruce Schneier
Burt Kaliski and Matt Robshaw examine the subject of multiple encryption, paying particular attention to repeated encryption with the same cipher.
by Charles Pfefferkorn
If you need to write localized software, books such as Software Internationalization and Localization: An Introduction, Understanding Japanese Information Processing, and Developing International Software for Windows 95 and Windows NT will get you started.
by Jonathan Erickson
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by Michael Swaine
by Monica E. Berg