Overview
- Introduces the most important issues of modern applied cryptography in computerized telecommunication networks
- Presents key technologies, algorithms, and protocols, along with methods of design and analysis
- Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduates in computer science and engineering
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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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.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Czesław Kościelny is a professor in the Department of Cryptography of Wrocław University of Applied Informatics.
Mirosław Kurkowski is a professor in the Institute of Computer and Information Sciences of Czestochowa University of Technology.
Marian Srebrny is a professor in the Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Modern Cryptography Primer
Book Subtitle: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Applications
Authors: Czesław Kościelny, Mirosław Kurkowski, Marian Srebrny
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41386-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-41385-8Published: 03 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52453-4Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-41386-5Published: 19 November 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 238
Number of Illustrations: 97 b/w illustrations
Topics: Data Structures and Information Theory, Systems and Data Security, e-Commerce/e-business, Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks