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Author: Christopher Swenson
ISBN : B008NBZ59E
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Download Free Modern Cryptanalysis: Techniques for Advanced Code Breaking from with Mediafire Link Download LinkAs an instructor at the University of Tulsa, Christopher Swenson could find no relevant text for teaching modern cryptanalysis?so he wrote his own. This is the first book that brings the study of cryptanalysis into the 21st century. Swenson provides a foundation in traditional cryptanalysis, examines ciphers based on number theory, explores block ciphers, and teaches the basis of all modern cryptanalysis: linear and differential cryptanalysis. This time-honored weapon of warfare has become a key piece of artillery in the battle for information security.Books with free ebook downloads available Free Modern Cryptanalysis: Techniques for Advanced Code Breaking
- File Size: 2818 KB
- Print Length: 264 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (May 18, 2009)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B008NBZ59E
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Free Modern Cryptanalysis: Techniques for Advanced Code Breaking
I do not have a mathematics background, but I wanted to get a deeper understanding of cryptography in general, as well as a little more detail on the different kinds of encryption solutions out there, with the option of digging deeper into the actual math and mechanics behind them. This book allow me to do this. Overall, it provides three things:
* Background and history of cryptography
* Overview of the important cryptographic solutions currently being used (S-boxes, Feistel structures, DES, etc.)
* Details on mathematics of how encryption algorithms work, to the point of understanding their exploitable vulnerabilities, not just their well-publicized strengths
Each chapter is also concluded with a summary and exercises, to help you better understand and learn by doing. The following are three chapters I thought that really stood out.
Simple Ciphers
This chapter provides an excellent introduction to the beginnings of cryptography (ROT13, even Klingon!) This chapter dovetails nicely into coincidence and how to start performing cryptanalysis, studying algorithmic flaws. As an aside, the discussion on the Vigenere Tableau goes well with the more detailed chapter on the same topic in The Code Book by Simon Singh.
Number Theoretical Ciphers
What I liked about this chapter is that it contained sections like Probability, which begins with what every Stats course begins with: the coin flip. But subtly the chapter gets more complicated, evolving to permutations, dependence, then breaks with the section Fun With Poker. After this is the Birthday Paradox, an important demonstration of probability, then moves on to cryptographic hashes.