Cryptography, information theory, and error-correction: a handbook for the 21st century

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"Cryptography, Information Theory, and Error-Correction offers a complete, yet accessible account of the technologies shaping the 21st century. Mainly Cryptography. Historical Introduction and the Life and Work of Claude E. Shannon. Classical Ciphers and Their Cryptanalysis. RSA, Key Searches, SSL, and Encrypting Email. The Fundamentals of Modern Cryptography. DES, AES and Operating Modes. Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC). General and Mathematical Attacks in Cryptography. Practical Issues in Modern Cryptography and Communications. Mainly Information Theory. Information Theory and Its Applications. Random Variables and Entropy. Source Coding, Data Compression, Redundancy. Channels, Capacity, the Fundamental Theorem. Signals, Sampling, SNR, Coding Gain. Ergodic and Markov Sources, Language Entropy. Perfect Secrecy: the New Paradigm. Shift Registers (LFSR) and Stream Ciphers. Mainly Error-Correction. Error-Correction, Haddamard, Block Designs and -rank. Finite Fields, Linear Algebra, and Number Theory. Introduction to Linear Codes. Linear Cyclic Codes, Shift Registers and CRC. Reed b6 sSolomon, MDS Codes, and Bruen-Thas-Blokhuis. MDS Codes, Secret Sharing, Invariant Theory. Key Reconciliation, Linear Codes, New Algorithms. Wiley-Interscience Series in Discrete Mathematics and Optimization.