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Author: Douglas R. Stinson
ISBN : 1584885084
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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 provide a solid foundation for future breakthroughs in cryptography.
WHY A THIRD EDITION?
The art and science of cryptography has been evolving for thousands of years. Now, with unprecedented amounts of information circling the globe, we must be prepared to face new threats and employ new encryption schemes on an ongoing basis. This edition updates relevant chapters with the latest advances and includes seven additional chapters covering:
Pseudorandom bit generation in cryptography
Entity authentication, including schemes built from primitives and special purpose "zero-knowledge" schemes
Key establishment including key distribution and protocols for key agreement, both with a greater emphasis on security models and proofs
Public key infrastructure, including identity-based cryptography
Secret sharing schemes
Multicast security, including broadcast encryption and copyright protection
THE RESULT…
Providing mathematical background in a "just-in-time" fashion, informal descriptions of cryptosystems along with more precise pseudocode, and a host of numerical examples and exercises, Cryptography: Theory and Practice, Third Edition offers comprehensive, in-depth treatment of the methods and protocols that are vital to safeguarding the mind-boggling amount of information circulating around the world. Books with free ebook downloads available Free Cryptography: Theory and Practice, Third Edition (Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications) [Hardcover]
- Series: Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications (Book 30)
- Hardcover: 616 pages
- Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC; 3 edition (November 1, 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1584885084
- ISBN-13: 978-1584885085
- Product Dimensions: 1.4 x 6.6 x 9.6 inches
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As other people have pointed out, this is not a mathematics book, and it is not an algorithm (recipies) book. It could be a great book for people that are interested in learning these tools to actually use them, either in a research or product development context (something besides homework). Unfortunately, the number of typos, in key mathematical expressions AND PORTIONS OF THE EXPLANATIONS is staggering. Go to the author's web page and you will find that some chapters, like 4 for example, average more than one typo per page (and some of these 'typos' are full sentences, or math expressions that do not look like anything that is actually printed on the page). If you do not have that errata sheet handy, you will waste a lot of time trying to understand the text, or trying to solve the exercises. If you are trying to learn from this book, without attending a class and without the errata, you will simply give up. It is a real shame because it has all the makings of a great book.
By A Customer
A book that tries to cover the theory and practice of cryptography in only four hundred pages has to make a lot of ruthless choices.
Professor Stinson wisely concentrates on theory, with a few nods to practice like explaining efficient modular exponentiation.
The theoretical material starts with the indispensable foundation of information theory and jumps straight into the operation of commercially important algorithms and their weaknesses. These are short but well done. For example Stinson has the best presentation of differential cryptanalysis that I've seen.
The breadth is good, covering most of the important magic that you can work with crypto: secret sharing, key exchange, zero knowledge proofs, etc.
Oddly, there doesn't seem to be a discussion of the blinding techniques used in Chaum's digital cash. Maybe that's because they're not yet a major part of the landscape, but then why spend space on the McEliece system?
A useful fraction of the book is accessible if you just have high school math, all of it with college math.
This would be a fine introduction to crypto.