Modern Cryptography Primer: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Applications

✍ Scribed by Czesław Kościelny, Mirosław Kurkowski, Marian Srebrny (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 246
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Cryptography has experienced rapid development, with major advances recently in both secret and public key ciphers, cryptographic hash functions, cryptographic algorithms and multiparty protocols, including their software engineering correctness verification, and various methods of cryptanalysis. This textbook introduces the reader to these areas, offering an understanding of the essential, most important, and most interesting ideas, based on the authors' teaching and research experience.

After introducing the basic mathematical and computational complexity concepts, and some historical context, including the story of Enigma, the authors explain symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, electronic signatures and hash functions, PGP systems, public key infrastructures, cryptographic protocols, and applications in network security. In each case the text presents the key technologies, algorithms, and protocols, along with methods of design and analysis, while the content is characterized by a visual style and all algorithms are presented in readable pseudocode or using simple graphics and diagrams.

The book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses in computer science and engineering, particularly in the area of networking, and it is also a suitable reference text for self-study by practitioners and researchers. The authors assume only basic elementary mathematical experience, the text covers the foundational mathematics and computational complexity theory.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Basic Concepts and Historical Overview....Pages 1-35
Mathematical Foundations of Cryptography....Pages 37-76
Foundations of Symmetric Cryptography....Pages 77-118
Foundations of Asymmetric Cryptography....Pages 119-126
An Electronic Signature and Hash Functions....Pages 127-145
PGP Systems and TrueCrypt....Pages 147-173
Public Key Infrastructure....Pages 175-191
Cryptographic Protocols....Pages 193-212
Cryptographic Applications for Network Security....Pages 213-231
Back Matter....Pages 233-238

✦ Subjects

Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory; Systems and Data Security; e-Commerce/e-business; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks