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This chapter introduces basic cryptographic mechanisms that serve as foundational building blocks for computer security: symmetric-key and public-key encryption, public-key digital signatures, hash functions, and message authentication codes. Other mathematical and crypto background is deferred to specific chapters as warranted by context.
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van Oorschot, P.C. (2020). Cryptographic Building Blocks. In: Computer Security and the Internet. Information Security and Cryptography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33649-3_2
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