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Author: Oded Goldreich
ISBN : 0521035368
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Cryptography is concerned with the conceptualization, definition and construction of computing systems that address security concerns. This book presents a rigorous and systematic treatment of the foundational issues: defining cryptographic tasks and solving new cryptographic problems using existing tools. It focuses on the basic mathematical tools: computational difficulty (one-way functions), pseudorandomness and zero-knowledge proofs. Rather than describing ad-hoc approaches, this book emphasizes the clarification of fundamental concepts and the demonstration of the feasibility of solving cryptographic problems. It is suitable for use in a graduate course on cryptography and as a reference book for experts.
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- Paperback: 396 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (January 18, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 9780521035361
- ISBN-13: 978-0521035361
- ASIN: 0521035368
- Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 9.8 x 6.9 inches
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Free Foundations of Cryptography: Volume 1, Basic Tools
After reading some of chapters, it seems to me that it is a bit difficult to understand even some easy concepts. The book is rich, but again it lacks of good explanations at some points.
By M. Majid Khonji
This is a great book. Solid, rigorous but not obscure. The author goes into lots of details and presents long proofs along the way, but the book is supposed to be like that... You will find a rigorous introduction to three concepts: one-way functions, pseudorandom generators and zero-knowledge proofs. Volume II of the book will show how to conceptually build cryptographic tools using these concepts (but he won't present pseudocode or get into implementation details -- that's not the point of his work).
Sections that are difficult and that could be skipped are marked with an asterisk.
One thing the reader should be aware of is that the author strongly opposes to using the "Random Oracle model", so if you want more information on that you'll have to find it elsewhere.
For anyone interested in theoretical cryptography, I'd say this book is absolutely required reading -- I suggest always having it around for reference.
By W. Ghost