Foundations of Cryptography
Foundations of Cryptography
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Cryptography is concerned with the conceptualization, definition and construction of computing systems that address security concerns. The design of cryptographic systems must be based on firm foundations. Foundations of Cryptography presents a rigorous and systematic treatment of foundational issues, defining cryptographic tasks and solving cryptographic problems. The emphasis is on the clarification of fundamental concepts and on demonstrating the feasibility of solving several central cryptographic problems, as opposed to describing ad-hoc approaches. This second volume contains a thorough treatment of three basic applications: Encryption, Signatures, and General Cryptographic Protocols. It builds on the previous volume, which provided a treatment of one-way functions, pseudorandomness, and zero-knowledge proofs. It is suitable for use in a graduate course on cryptography and as a reference book for experts. The author assumes basic familiarity with the design and analysis of algorithms; some knowledge of complexity theory and probability is also useful.
- Rigorous and systematic treatment of cryptography, focused on concepts and ideas
- Lots of exercises and examples
- Suitable for experts as well as beginners who have a background in theory of computation
Product details
May 2004Hardback
9780521830843
448 pages
260 × 182 × 30 mm
0.931kg
Unavailable - out of print November 2009
Table of Contents
- List of figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 5. Encryption schemes
- 6. Digital signatures and message authentication
- 7. General cryptographic protocols
- Appendix C: corrections and additions to volume I
- Bibliography
- Index.
