RSA and public-key cryptogaphy - a source

Cryptologia, Jul 2003 by Kruh, Louis

RSA AND PUBLIC-KEY CRYPTOGAPHY - A SOURCE Mollin, Richard A. RSA and Public-Key Cryptography. Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2000 N.W. Corporate Blvd., Boca Raton FL 33431 USA. 2003. 291 pp. $79.95 pp.

Although a vast literature exists on the subject of RSA and public-key cryptography, there has been no single source that reveals recent developments in the area at an accessible level. Mollin brings together all of the relevant information available on public-key cryptography (PKC), from RSA to the latest applications of PKC, including electronic cash, secret broadcasting, various banking and payment protocols, high security logins, smart cards, and biometrics.. He also covers public-key infrastructure (PKI) and its various security applications.

Throughout this book, Mollin gives a human face to cryptography by including nearly 40 biographies of the individuals who helped develop cryptographic concepts. He includes a number of illustrative and motivating examples as well as optional topics beyond the basics, such as Lenstra's elliptic curve method and the number field sieve. From history and basic concepts to future trends and emerging applications, this book provides a rigorous and detailed treatment of PKC. It also includes 350 exercises and more than 60 examples, diagrams and tables and provides complete and detailed solutions to all of the odd-numbered exercises. Includes three background appendices for a self-contained presentation of PKC and lists more than 2,000 entries in its extensive index.