ENGLISH

Modern Cryptography: Theory and Practice

By Wenbo Mao

Book information

Publisher
Prentice Hall
Year
2003
ISBN
0130669431, 9780130669438
Open Library ID
OL17630504M
Language
english
Format
CHM
Filesize
3 MB (3369925 bytes)
Pages
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Library
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Time added
2009-10-26 15:40:52

Description

Many cryptographic schemes and protocols, especially those based on public-keycryptography, have basic or so-called "textbook crypto" versions, as these versionsare usually the subjects for many textbooks on cryptography. This book takes adifferent approach to introducing cryptography: it pays much more attention tofit-for-application aspects of cryptography. It explains why "textbook crypto" isonly good in an ideal world where data are random and bad guys behave nicely.It reveals the general unfitness of "textbook crypto" for the real world by demonstratingnumerous attacks on such schemes, protocols and systems under variousreal-world application scenarios. This book chooses to introduce a set of practicalcryptographic schemes, protocols and systems, many of them standards or de factoones, studies them closely, explains their working principles, discusses their practicalusages, and examines their strong (i.e., fit-for-application) security properties, oftenwith security evidence formally established. The book also includes self-containedtheoretical background material that is the foundation for modern cryptography.

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