Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications

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The ultimate guide to cryptography, updated from an author team of the world's top cryptography experts. Cryptography is vital to keeping information safe, in an era when the formula to do so becomes more and more challenging. Written by a team of world-renowned cryptography experts, this essential guide is the definitive introduction to all major areas of cryptography: message security, key negotiation, and key management. You'll learn how to think like a cryptographer. You'll discover techniques for building cryptography into products from the start and you'll examine the many technical chan.  Read more... Abstract: The ultimate guide to cryptography, updated from an author team of the world's top cryptography experts. Cryptography is vital to keeping information safe, in an era when the formula to do so becomes more and more challenging. Written by a team of world-renowned cryptography experts, this essential guide is the definitive introduction to all major areas of cryptography: message security, key negotiation, and key management. You'll learn how to think like a cryptographer. You'll discover techniques for building cryptography into products from the start and you'll examine the many technical chan Content: Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications Credits About the Authors Acknowledgments for Cryptography Engineering Acknowledgments for Practical Cryptography (the 1st Edition) Contents at a Glance Contents Preface to Cryptography Engineering History Example Syllabi Additional Information Preface to Practical Cryptography (the 1st Edition) How to Read this Book Part I: Introduction In This Part Chapter 1: The Context of Cryptography 1.1: The Role of Cryptography 1.2: The Weakest Link Property 1.3: The Adversarial Setting 1.4: Professional Paranoia. 1.4.1: Broader Benefits1.4.2: Discussing Attacks 1.5: Threat Model 1.6: Cryptography Is Not the Solution 1.7: Cryptography Is Very Difficult 1.8: Cryptography Is the Easy Part 1.9: Generic Attacks 1.10: Security and Other Design Criteria 1.10.1: Security Versus Performance 1.10.2: Security Versus Features 1.10.3: Security Versus Evolving Systems 1.11: Further Reading 1.12: Exercises for Professional Paranoia 1.12.1: Current Event Exercises 1.12.2: Security Review Exercises 1.13: General Exercises Chapter 2: Introduction to Cryptography 2.1: Encryption. 2.1.1: Kerckhoffs' Principle2.2: Authentication 2.3: Public-Key Encryption 2.4: Digital Signatures 2.5: PKI 2.6: Attacks 2.6.1: The Ciphertext-Only Model 2.6.2: The Known-Plaintext Model 2.6.3: The Chosen-Plaintext Model 2.6.4: The Chosen-Ciphertext Model 2.6.5: The Distinguishing Attack Goal 2.6.6: Other Types of Attack 2.7: Under the Hood 2.7.1: Birthday Attacks 2.7.2: Meet-in-the-Middle Attacks 2.8: Security Level 2.9: Performance 2.10: Complexity 2.11: Exercises Part II: Message Security Chapter 3: Block Ciphers 3.1: What Is a Block Cipher? 3.2: Types of Attack. 3.3: The Ideal Block Cipher3.4: Definition of Block Cipher Security 3.4.1: Parity of a Permutation 3.5: Real Block Ciphers 3.5.1: DES 3.5.2: AES 3.5.3: Serpent 3.5.4: Twofish 3.5.5: Other AES Finalists 3.5.6: Which Block Cipher Should I Choose? 3.5.7: What Key Size Should I Use? 3.6: Exercises Chapter 4: Block Cipher Modes 4.1: Padding 4.2: ECB 4.3: CBC 4.3.1: Fixed IV 4.3.2: Counter IV 4.3.3: Random IV 4.3.4: Nonce-Generated IV 4.4: OFB 4.5: CTR 4.6: Combined Encryption and Authentication 4.7: Which Mode Should I Use? 4.8: Information Leakage. 4.8.1: Chances of a Collision4.8.2: How to Deal With Leakage 4.8.3: About Our Math 4.9: Exercises Chapter 5: Hash Functions 5.1: Security of Hash Functions 5.2: Real Hash Functions 5.2.1: A Simple But Insecure Hash Function 5.2.2: MD5 5.2.3: SHA-1 5.2.4: SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 5.3: Weaknesses of Hash Functions 5.3.1: Length Extensions 5.3.2: Partial-Message Collision 5.4: Fixing the Weaknesses 5.4.1: Toward a Short-term Fix 5.4.2: A More Efficient Short-term Fix 5.4.3: Another Fix 5.5: Which Hash Function Should I Choose? 5.6: Exercises.