Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 552 pages
- Published by: Chapman & Hall/CRC
- Edition: 1st Edition August 31, 2007
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1584885513
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1584885511
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Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.3 x 1.4 inches
- Weighs: 2 pounds
Product Review
Over the past thirty years, cryptography has been transformed from a mysterious art into a mathematically rigorous science. The textbook by Jonathan Katz and Yehuda Lindell finally makes this modern approach to cryptography accessible to a broad audience. Readers of this text will learn how to think precisely about the security of protocols against arbitrary attacks, a skill that will remain relevant and useful regardless of how technology and cryptography standards change. The book uses just enough formalism to maintain precision and rigor without obscuring the development of ideas. It manages to convey both the theory's conceptual beauty and its relevance to practice. I plan to use it every time I teach an undergraduate course in cryptography.
-Salil Vadhan,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Over the past thirty years, cryptography has been transformed from a mysterious art into a mathematically rigorous science. The textbook by Jonathan Katz and Yehuda Lindell finally makes this modern approach to cryptography accessible to a broad audience. Readers of this text will learn how to think precisely about the security of protocols against arbitrary attacks, a skill that will remain relevant and useful regardless of how technology and cryptography standards change. The book uses just enough formalism to maintain precision and rigor without obscuring the development of ideas. It manages to convey both the theorys conceptual beauty and its relevance to practice. I plan to use it every time I teach an undergraduate course in cryptography.
-Salil Vadhan,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Product Description
Cryptography plays a key role in ensuring the privacy and integrity of data and the security of computer networks. Introduction to Modern Cryptography provides a rigorous yet accessible treatment of modern cryptography, with a focus on formal definitions, precise assumptions, and rigorous proofs. The authors introduce the core principles of modern cryptography, including the modern, computational approach to security that overcomes the limitations of perfect secrecy. An extensive treatment of private-key encryption and message authentication follows. The authors also illustrate design principles for block ciphers, such as the Data Encryption Standard (DES) and the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), and present provably secure constructions of block ciphers from lower-level primitives. The second half of the book focuses on public-key cryptography, beginning with a self-contained introduction to the number theory needed to understand the RSA, Diffie-Hellman, El Gamal, and other cryptosystems. After exploring public-key encryption and digital signatures, the book concludes with a discussion of the random oracle model and its applications. Serving as a textbook, a reference, or for self-study, Introduction to Modern Cryptography presents the necessary tools to fully understand this fascinating subject.
Reader Reviews
I used this book for a course on modern cryptography held by Prof. Persiano of the University of Salerno, Italy. I read, consulted, and studied other books about cryptography, but 'INTRODUCTION TO MODERN CRYPTOGRAPHY' by Katz and Lindell is in my humble opinion THE BEST. The book has a theoretical flavor, it is mathematically rigorous, but it is very readable and fluent, and presents the motivating discussions beneath each topic. The book is fully self-contained, and gives the necessary background for each topic (for example there is a lot of basic computational number theory necessary for introducing the topic of 'public key'). The beauty of the book is in that the authors don't present a collection of protocols, with no links each other, but the flow is sequential and motivated (in contrast to books which present topics only for filling the pages). All the theorems are proved and the treatment is rigorous, but the theory is developed from scratch, and the book is oriented to beginner students, though it presents also advanced stuff and is one of the most advanced book for beginners. The main contents of the book are: 1) Perfect security and Shannon's theorem (information theoretic security) 2) Computational security, indistinguishability, CPA 3) Pseudorandomness 4) One-way functions, hard-core predicate, Levin's theorem 5) Message Authentication Codes 6) Costructions of Pseudorandom objects, AES, Substitution-Permutation networks 7) Relation between Private-Key, one-way functions and pseudrandomness. 8) Number theory for the cryptography 9) Computational number theory, factorization, square roots,discrete log,diffie-hellman problems 10) Public key, goldwasser-micali, el gamal, pallier, hybrid encryption, encryption schemes based on trapdoor permutations 11)Digital Signature Schemes I wrote only some topics of the book following my taste, but the books contains much more. The exercises left to the end of each chapters are good, and vary from easy to hard. The book i read was in draft form, 320 pages long, but the final edition is about 500 pages long, cause addictional sections have been added. Indeed in the introduction of my book the authors write that their planned to add to the final edition the following: Elliptic curves Sub-exponential factoring algorithms The random oracle model and efficient cryptographic constructions Protocols Given that the final edition is 200 pages longer that my draft i think that these sections have been added. I advice this book to everyone who wants start the study of modern cryptography from a theoretic and rigorous point of view. After you read Katz and Lindell i suggest you to read "Foundations of Cryptography" by Goldreich, but it is too advanced and its reading requires you already read Katz and Lindell.
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