Modern Cryptography Primer: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Applications

by Czeslaw Koscielny, Miroslaw Kurkowski, Marian Srebrny

Overview

Cryptography has experienced rapid development, with major advances recently in both secret and public key ciphers, cryptographic hash functions, cryptographic algorithms and multiparty prools, 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 prools, and applications in network security. In each case the text presents the key technologies, algorithms, and prools, 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642413858
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	11/20/2013
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

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 Czeshowa University of Technology.

Marian Srebrny is a professor in the Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Table of Contents

Chap. 1 Basic Concepts and Historical Overview.- Chap. 2 Mathematical Foundations of Cryptography.- Chap. 3 Foundations of Symmetric Cryptography.- Chap. 4 Foundations of Asymmetric Cryptography.- Chap. 5 An Electronic Signature and Hash Functions.- Chap. 6 PGP Systems and True Crypt.- Chap. 7 Public Key Infrastructure.- Chap. 8 Cryptographic Prools.- Chap. 9 Cryptography Application for Data Security.- References.- Index.