ABSTRACT

THE LEGACY
First introduced in 1995, Cryptography: Theory and Practice garnered enormous praise and popularity, and soon became the standard textbook for cryptography courses around the world. The second edition was equally embraced, and enjoys status as a perennial bestseller. Now in its third edition, this authoritative text continues to prov

chapter 1|44 pages

Classical Cryptography

chapter 2|28 pages

Shannon’s Theory

chapter 4|42 pages

Cryptographic Hash Functions

chapter 7|42 pages

Signature Schemes

chapter 8|30 pages

Pseudo-random Number Generation

chapter 10|36 pages

Key Distribution

chapter 11|28 pages

Key Agreement Schemes

chapter 12|24 pages

Public-key Infrastructure

chapter 13|36 pages

Secret Sharing Schemes

chapter 14|40 pages

Multicast Security and Copyright Protection