Overview
- Provides a comprehensive understanding of modern applied cryptography
- Offers new chapters on SHA-3 and post-quantum cryptography
- Includes examples, problems, and chapter reviews, as well as an associated website
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Heavily revised and updated, the long-awaited second edition of Understanding Cryptography follows the unique approach of making modern cryptography accessible to a broad audience, requiring only a minimum of prior knowledge. After introducing basic cryptography concepts, this seminal textbook covers nearly all symmetric, asymmetric, and post-quantum cryptographic algorithms currently in use in applications—ranging from cloud computing and smart phones all the way to industrial systems, block chains, and cryptocurrencies.
Topics and features:
- Opens with a foreword by cryptography pioneer and Turing Award winner, Ron Rivest
- Helps develop a comprehensive understanding of modern applied cryptography
- Provides a thorough introduction to post-quantum cryptography consisting of the three standardized cipher families
- Includes for every chapter a comprehensive problem set, extensive examples, and a further-reading discussion
- Communicates, using a unique pedagogical approach, the essentials about foundations and use in practice, while keeping mathematics to a minimum
- Supplies up-to-date security parameters for all cryptographic algorithms
- Incorporates chapter reviews and discussion on such topics as historical and societal context
This must-have book is indispensable as a textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses, as well as for self-study by designers and engineers.
The authors have more than 20 years’ experience teaching cryptography at various universities in the US and Europe. In addition to being renowned scientists, they have extensive experience with applying cryptography in industry, fromwhich they have drawn important lessons for their teaching.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
The authors have more than 20 years’ experience teaching cryptography at various universities in the US and Europe. In addition to being renowned scientists, they have extensive experience with applying cryptography in industry, from which they have drawn important lessons for their teaching.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding Cryptography
Book Subtitle: From Established Symmetric and Asymmetric Ciphers to Post-Quantum Algorithms
Authors: Christof Paar, Jan Pelzl, Tim Güneysu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-69007-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-69006-2Published: 16 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-69007-9Published: 15 May 2024
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXI, 543
Topics: Cryptology, Systems and Data Security, Quantum Physics, Theory of Computation