Understanding Cryptography A Textbook for Students and Practitioners /

• Main Authors: Paar, Christof. (Author), Pelzl, Jan. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Data protection.; Data structures (Computer science).; Systems engineering.; Computer Science.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.; Circuits and Systems.; Systems and Data Security.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04101-3

Cryptography is now ubiquitous  moving beyond the traditional environments, such as government communications and banking systems, we see cryptographic techniques realized in Web browsers, e-mail programs, cell phones, manufacturing systems, embedded software, smart buildings, cars, and even medica...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction to Cryptography and Data Security
• Stream Ciphers
• The Data Encryption Standard (DES) and Alternatives
• The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
• More About Block Ciphers
• Introduction to Public-Key Cryptography
• The RSA Cryptosystem
• Public-Key Cryptosystems Based on the Discrete Logarithm Problem
• Elliptic-Curve Cryptosystems
• Digital Signatures
• Hash Functions
• Message Authentication Codes (MACs)
• Key Establishment
• References
• Index.