Cryptography

Recommended books

• D. R. Stinson, Cryptography, Theory and Practice, CRC Press.
• A. J. Menezes, P. C. van Oorschot, S. A. Vanstone, Handbook of Applied Cryptography, CRC Press.
• R. J. Anderson, Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems, Wiley, 2008.
• J. Erickson, Hacking, the art of exploitation, No starch press, 2008.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Classical cryptography
  • Monoalphabetic ciphers
  • A formal definition of cryptosystem
  • Polyalphabetic ciphers
  • Known-plaintext attacks
  • Stream ciphers
    
  • Shannon theory on perfect ciphers
• Modern cryptography
  • Composition of ciphers
  • The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
  • Block cipher modes of operation
  • More block ciphers
  • Meet-in-the-middle attack
  • Asymmetric-key ciphers
  • The RSA cipher
  • Security of RSA
  • Digital signatures, cryptographic hash functions and MACs
    
• Applied cryptography
  • Strong authentication based on symmetric-key cryptography
  • Diffie-Hellman key agreement
  • Strong authentication based on asymmetric-key cryptography
  • Key management