Modern Cryptography: Theory and Practice

Description
Leading HP security expert Wenbo Mao explains why conventional crypto schemes, protocols, and systems are profoundly vulnerable, introducing both fundamental theory and real-world attacks.

Program

Leading HP security expert Wenbo Mao explains why conventional crypto schemes, protocols, and systems are profoundly vulnerable, introducing both fundamental theory and real-world attacks. Next, he shows how to implement crypto systems that are truly "fit for application," and formally demonstrate their fitness. He begins by reviewing the foundations of cryptography: probability, information theory, computational complexity, number theory, algebraic techniques, and more. He presents the "ideal" principles of authentication, comparing them with real-world implementation.
Mao assesses the strength of IPSec, IKE, SSH, SSL, TLS, Kerberos, and other standards, and offers practical guidance on designing stronger crypto schemes and using formal methods to prove their security and efficiency. Finally, he presents an in-depth introduction to zero-knowledge protocols: their characteristics, development, arguments, and proofs. Mao relies on practical examples throughout, and provides all the mathematical background individuals will need.


Coverage includes:

• Crypto foundations: probability, information theory, computational complexity, number theory, algebraic techniques, and more.
• Authentication: basic techniques and principles vs. misconceptions and consequential attacks
• Evaluating real-world protocol standards including IPSec, IKE, SSH, TLS (SSL), and Kerberos
• Designing stronger counterparts to vulnerable "textbook" crypto schemes

Mao introduces formal and reductionist methodologies to prove the "fit-for-application" security of practical encryption, signature, signcryption, and authentication schemes. He gives detailed explanations for zero-knowledge protocols: definition, zero-knowledge properties, equitability vs. simulatability, argument vs. proof, round-efficiency, and non-interactive versions.



Authors: Wenbo Mao
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780130669438
Pages: 648
Format: Hard Cover
Published Date: Aug 03
Availability: Ex Stock