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Modern Cryptography: Theory and Practice (paperback)
- By Wenbo Mao
- Published Jul 25, 2003 by Pearson.
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Features
- Realistic guidance on building “fit for application” cryptographic systems—Shows students why conventional cryptographic implementations are often inadequate, and how to build systems that are far more secure.
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Helps students go beyond theory to build next-generation cryptographic systems that overcome the limitations of current technologies.
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- Sophisticated formal methods—Introduces advanced formal methods for demonstrating the security of cryptographic systems and protocols.
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Helps students design cryptographic systems that are demonstrably secure.
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- Assessments of key cryptographic standards—Compares and evaluates contemporary encryption protocols and standards, including IPSec, IKE, SSH, SSL, TLS, and Kerberos.
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Helps students understand how todays leading encryption protocols and standards were designed, and recognise their vulnerabilities.
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- Essential mathematics for advanced cryptography—Presents all the math students will need, including probability and information theory, computational complexity, and algebraic foundations.
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Enables students to master advanced cryptographic design and development, even if they come to the course without a thorough grounding in the mathematics.
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- Extensive practical examples—Presents realistic implementation examples for a wide range of cryptographic systems.
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Helps students more clearly understand how cryptographic theory can be translated into real-world implementation.
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- By one of the fields leading experts—By Wenbo Mao, leader of Hewlett-Packards contributions to the European Unions Secure Electronic Commerce Transactions (CASENET), a research project.
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Gives students confidence that they are receiving state-of-the-art information that is thorough, accurate, clear, and useful.
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Description
- Copyright 2004
- Dimensions: 7" x 9-1/4"
- Pages: 752
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-288741-X
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-288741-0
"This book would be a good addition to any cryptographer's bookshelf. The book is self-contained; it presents all the background material to understand an algorithm and all the development to prove its security. I'm not aware of another book that's as complete as this one."
--Christian Paquin, Cryptographic/Security Developer, Silanis Technology Inc. "The book is both complete, and extraordinarily technically accurate. It would certainly be a useful addition to any cryptographer's or crypto-engineer's library."
--Marcus Leech, Advisor, Security Architecture and Planning, Nortel Networks Build more secure crypto systems--and prove their trustworthiness Modern Cryptography is the indispensable resource for every technical professional who needs to implement strong security in real-world applications.
Leading HP security expert Wenbo Mao explains why "textbook" crypto schemes, protocols, and systems are profoundly vulnerable by revealing real-world-scenario attacks. Next, he shows how to realize cryptographic systems and protocols that are truly "fit for application"--and formally demonstrates their fitness. Mao presents practical examples throughout and provides all the mathematical background you'll need.
Coverage includes:
- Crypto foundations: probability, information theory, computational complexity, number theory, algebraic techniques, and more
- Authentication: basic techniques and principles vs. misconceptions and consequential attacks
- Evaluating real-world protocol standards including IPSec, IKE, SSH, TLS (SSL), and Kerberos
- Designing stronger counterparts to vulnerable "textbook" crypto schemes
Mao introduces formal and reductionist methodologies to prove the "fit-for-application" security of practical encryption, signature, signcryption, and authentication schemes. He gives detailed explanations for zero-knowledge protocols: definition, zero-knowledge properties, equatability vs. simulatability, argument vs. proof, round-efficiency, and non-interactive versions.
Sample Content
Table of Contents
- I. INTRODUCTION.
- 1. Beginning with a Simple Communication Game.
- 2. Wrestling between Safeguard and Attack.
- II MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS.
- 3. Probability and Information Theory.
- 4. Computational Complexity.
- 5. Algebraic Foundations.
- 6. Number Theory.
- III. BASIC CRYPTOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES.
- 7. Encryption—Symmetric Techniques.
- 8. Encryption—Asymmetric Techniques.
- 9. In an Ideal World: Bit Security of the Basic Public-Key Cryptographic Functions.
- 10. Data Integrity Techniques.
- IV. AUTHENTICATION.
- 11. Authentication Protocols—Principles.
- 12. Authentication Protocols—The Real World.
- 13. Authentication Framework for Public-Key Cryptography.
- V. FORMAL APPROACHES TO SECURITY ESTABLISHMENT.
- 14. Formal and Strong Security Definitions for Public-Key Cryptosystems.
- 15. Provably Secure and Efficient Public-Key Cryptosystems.
- 16. Strong and Provable Security for Digital Signatures.
- 17. Formal Methods for Authentication Protocols Analysis.
- VI. CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROTOCOLS.
- 18. Zero-Knowledge Protocols.
- 19. Returning To “Coin Flipping over Telephone”.
- 20. Afterremark.