Cryptography: Theory and Practice

Through three editions, Cryptography: Theory and Practice, has been embraced by instructors and students alike. It offers a comprehensive primer for the subject's fundamentals while presenting the most current advances in cryptography.

 

The authors offer comprehensive, in-depth treatment of the methods and protocols that are vital to safeguarding the seemingly infinite and increasing amount of information circulating around the world.

 

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• New chapter on the exciting, emerging new area of post-quantum cryptography (Chapter 9).
• New high-level, nontechnical overview of the goals and tools of cryptography (Chapter 1).
• New mathematical appendix that summarizes definitions and main results on number theory and algebra (Appendix A).
• An expanded treatment of stream ciphers, including common design techniques along with coverage of Trivium.
• Interesting attacks on cryptosystems, including:

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  • padding oracle attack
  • correlation attacks and algebraic attacks on stream ciphers
  • attack on the DUAL-EC random bit generator that makes use of a trapdoor.
• A treatment of the sponge construction for hash functions and its use in the new SHA-3 hash standard.
• Methods of key distribution in sensor networks.
• The basics of visual cryptography, allowing a secure method to split a secret visual message into pieces (shares) that can later be combined to reconstruct the secret.
• The fundamental techniques cryptocurrencies, as used in Bitcoin and blockchain.
• The basics of the new methods employed in messaging protocols such as Signal, including deniability and Diffie-Hellman key ratcheting.

《密碼學：理論與實踐》已經推出三個版本，受到教師和學生的廣泛歡迎。該書提供了該主題基礎的全面入門，同時介紹了密碼學的最新進展。

作者們全面深入地介紹了對於保護世界各地無窮無盡且不斷增加的信息所必不可少的方法和協議。

第四版的主要特點包括：

- 新增了一章關於令人興奮的新興領域後量子密碼學（第9章）。
- 新增了一個高層次的非技術性概述，介紹了密碼學的目標和工具（第1章）。
- 新增了一個數學附錄，概述了數論和代數的定義和主要結果（附錄A）。
- 對流密碼的處理進行了擴展，包括常見的設計技術以及對Trivium的介紹。
- 介紹了對密碼系統的有趣攻擊，包括：
- 填充預言攻擊
- 相關攻擊和代數攻擊對流密碼
- 利用陷阱的DUAL-EC隨機位生成器攻擊。
- 介紹了海綿結構在哈希函數中的應用，以及其在新的SHA-3哈希標準中的使用。
- 介紹了在感測器網絡中的密鑰分發方法。
- 介紹了視覺密碼學的基礎，允許將秘密視覺信息分割成多個片段（份額），以便稍後組合恢復秘密。
- 介紹了比特幣和區塊鏈中使用的基本加密貨幣技術。
- 介紹了在信使協議中使用的新方法的基礎，例如Signal，包括可否否認性和Diffie-Hellman金鑰協議。

以上是第四版的主要內容。

Douglas R. Stinson obtained his PhD in Combinatorics and Optimization from the University of Waterloo in 1981. He held academic positions at the University of Manitoba and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln before returning to Waterloo in 1998, when he was awarded the NSERC/Certicom Industrial Research Chair in Cryptography. Dr. Stinson currently holds the position of University Professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. His research interests include cryptography and computer security, combinatorics and coding theory, and applications of discrete mathematics in computer science. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2011.

Maura Paterson obtained a PhD in Mathematics from Royal Holloway, University of London in 2005. Her research focuses on applications of combinatorics in information security and related areas. She is a Reader in Mathematics in the Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics at Birkbeck, University of London.

Douglas R. Stinson於1981年從滑鐵盧大學獲得組合優化學博士學位。他曾在曼尼托巴大學和內布拉斯加大學林肯分校擔任學術職位，於1998年回到滑鐵盧大學，並獲得NSERC/Certicom工業研究主席職位。Stinson博士目前擔任滑鐵盧大學David R. Cheriton計算機科學學院的大學教授職位。他的研究興趣包括密碼學和計算機安全、組合學和編碼理論，以及離散數學在計算機科學中的應用。他於2011年當選為加拿大皇家學會院士。

Maura Paterson於2005年從倫敦大學皇家霍洛威學院獲得數學博士學位。她的研究專注於組合學在信息安全和相關領域的應用。她是倫敦大學伯貝克學院經濟學、數學和統計學系的數學讀者。