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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    July 2014
    March 2014
    ISBN:
    9781139084772
    9781107017887
    9781107603455
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139084772
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.42kg, 186 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.3kg, 186 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Mathematics, Computer Science, Number Theory, Cryptography, Cryptology and Coding
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    Mathematics, Computer Science, Number Theory, Cryptography, Cryptology and Coding
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    Cryptography has been employed in war and diplomacy from the time of Julius Caesar. In our Internet age, cryptography's most widespread application may be for commerce, from protecting the security of electronic transfers to guarding communication from industrial espionage. This accessible introduction for undergraduates explains the cryptographic protocols for achieving privacy of communication and the use of digital signatures for certifying the validity, integrity, and origin of a message, document, or program. Rather than offering a how-to on configuring web browsers and e-mail programs, the author provides a guide to the principles and elementary mathematics underlying modern cryptography, giving readers a look under the hood for security techniques and the reasons they are thought to be secure.

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    References
    Further Reading
    [1] E.T., Bell. Men of Mathematics. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster (1937).
    [2] David, Kahn. The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing, 2nd ed. New York, NY: Scribner (1996).
    [3] Peter, Wright with Paul, Greengrass. Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer. New York, NY: Viking (1987).
    [4] Charlie, Kaufman, Radia, Perlman, and Mike, Speciner. Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall (1995).
    [5] Bruce, Schneier. Applied Cryptography, 2nd ed. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons (1996).
    [6] Douglas R., Stinson. Cryptography: Theory and Practice. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press (1995).

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