Contemporary Cryptology

✍ Scribed by Dario Catalano, Ronald Cramer, Giovanni Di Crescenzo, Ivan Darmgård, David Pointcheval, Tsuyoshi Takagi (auth.)

• Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 243
• Series: Advanced Courses in Mathematics - CRM Barcelona
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The aim of this text is to treat selected topics of the subject of contemporary cryptology, structured in five quite independent but related themes:
- efficient distributed computation modulo a shared secret
- multiparty computation
- foundations of modern cryptography
- provable security for public key schemes
- efficient and secure public-key cryptosystems.

✦ Table of Contents

Efficient Distributed Computation Modulo a Shared Secret....Pages 1-39
Multiparty Computation, an Introduction....Pages 41-87
Foundations of Modern Cryptography....Pages 89-131
Provable Security for Public Key Schemes....Pages 133-190
Efficient and Secure Public-Key Cryptosystems....Pages 191-237

✦ Subjects

Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory; Coding and Information Theory; Theory of Computation; Mathematics of Computing; Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science; Applications of Mathematics