Second edition of Stinson crypto book

Cryptologia, Apr 2003 by Kruh, Louis

SECOND EDITION OF STINSON CRYPTO BOOK

Stinson, Douglas R. Cryptography: Theory and Practice, Second Edition. CRC Press, 2000 Corporate Blvd. NW, Boca Raton FL USA 33431-9868. 2002. 339 pp. $79.95.

Since the 1995 publication of Stinson's standard-setting text and reference, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), elliptic curve DSA, the secure hash algorithm and other major cryptologic advances necessitated this comprehensive revision. It is a more tightly focused edition that concentrates on the core areas of cryptography with many new topics as well as thoroughly updated treatments of related subjects in the first edition.

This new edition explains the latest Federal Information Processing Standards, including AES, the Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-1) and the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA); Uses Substitution-permutation networks to introduce block cipher design and analysis concepts; Explains both linear and differential cryptanalysis; Presents the Random Oracle model for hash functions; and much more.

Its seven chapters are: 1. Classical Cryptography, 2. Shannon's Theory, 3. Block Ciphers and the Advanced Encryption Standard, 4. Cryptographic Hash Functions, 5. The RSA Cryptosystem and Factoring Integers, 6. Public-key Cryptosystems Based on the Discrete Logarithm Problem and 7. Signature Schemes.

This updated edition can be useful for a variety of individuals including students, researchers, and professionals in discrete mathematics, cryptography, and combinatorics, and computer scientists working in the field of computer security/cryptography.

Louis Kruh

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