Cryptography - Theory and Practice - 4th Edition

Through three editions, Cryptography: Theory and Practice, has been embraced by instructors and students alike. It offers a comprehensive primer for the subject's fundamentals while presenting the most current advances in cryptography.The authors offer comprehensive, in-depth treatment of the methods and protocols that are vital to safeguarding the seemingly infinite and increasing amount of information circulating around the world.Key Features of the Fourth Edition: New chapter on the exciting, emerging new area of post-quantum cryptography (Chapter 9). New high-level, nontechnical overview of the goals and tools of cryptography (Chapter 1). New mathematical appendix that summarizes definitions and main results on number theory and algebra (Appendix A). An expanded treatment of stream ciphers, including common design techniques along with coverage of Trivium. Interesting attacks on cryptosystems, including: padding oracle attack correlation attacks and algebraic attacks on stream ciphers attack on the DUAL-EC random bit generator that makes use of a trapdoor. A treatment of the sponge construction for hash functions and its use in the new SHA-3 hash standard. Methods of key distribution in sensor networks. The basics of visual cryptography, allowing a secure method to split a secret visual message into pieces (shares) that can later be combined to reconstruct the secret. The fundamental techniques cryptocurrencies, as used in Bitcoin and blockchain. The basics of the new methods employed in messaging protocols such as Signal, including deniability and Diffie-Hellman key ratcheting.

List of contents

Introduction to Cryptography. Classical Cryptography. Shannon's Theory, Perfect Secrecy and the One-Time Pad. Block Ciphers and Stream Ciphers. Hash Functions and Message Authentication. The RSA Cryptosystem and Factoring Integers. Public-Key Cryptography and Discrete Logarithms. Post-quantum Cryptography. Identification Schemes and Entity Authentication. Key Distribution. Key Agreement Schemes. Miscellaneous Topics. Appendix A: Number Theory and Algebraic Concepts for Cryptography, Appendix B: Pseudorandom Bit Generation for Cryptography.

Product details

• Authors: Maura Paterson, Maura B. Paterson, Douglas R. Stinson, Douglas R. Paterson Stinson, Douglas Robert Stinson, Douglas Robert (University of Waterloo Stinson, Douglas Robert (University of Waterloo 20 Stinson, Douglas Robert Paterson Stinson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.09.2018
• EAN: 9781138197015
• ISBN: 978-1-138-19701-5
• No. of pages: 598
• Dimensions: 183 mm x 262 mm x 40 mm
• Series: Textbooks in Mathematics; Textbooks in Mathematics; Print on Demand; Chapman & Hall/CRC Cryptography and Network Security Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics; Algebra, MATHEMATICS / General, MATHEMATICS / Number Theory, MATHEMATICS / Algebra / General, MATHEMATICS / Combinatorics, Discrete Mathematics, Number Theory, Combinatorics & graph theory, Mathematical logic, COMPUTERS / Security / Cryptography & Encryption, Combinatorics and graph theory