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
Reviews & endorsements
Review of the hardback: 'This is a very complete introduction to the basics of modern complexity-theoretic cryptography. It is a solid foundation for understanding much of the current work in this area.' ACM SIGACT News
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March 2011Adobe eBook Reader
9780511837524
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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.
