Lectures on Data Security: Modern Cryptology in Theory and Practice

Mihir Bellare (auth.), Ivan Bjerre Damgård (eds.)3540657576, 9783540657576

This tutorial volume is based on a summer school on cryptology and data security held in Aarhus, Denmark, in July 1998. The ten revised lectures presented are devoted to core topics in modern cryptololgy. In accordance with the educational objectives of the school, elementary introductions are provided to central topics, various examples are given of the problems encountered, and this is supplemented with solutions, open problems, and reference to further reading. The resulting book is ideally suited as an up-to-date introductory text for students and IT professionals interested in modern cryptology.

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Table of contents :
Practice-Oriented Provable-Security….Pages 1-15
Introduction to Secure Computation….Pages 16-62
Commitment Schemes and Zero-Knowledge Protocols….Pages 63-86
Emerging Standards for Public-Key Cryptography….Pages 87-104
Contemporary Block Ciphers….Pages 105-126
Primality Tests and Use of Primes in Public Key Systems….Pages 127-133
Signing Contracts and Paying Electronically….Pages 134-157
The State of Cryptographic Hash Functions….Pages 158-182
The Search for the Holy Grail in Quantum Cryptography….Pages 183-216
Unconditional Security in Cryptography….Pages 217-250