Understanding Cryptography

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christof Paar is Chair for Embedded Security at the University of Bochum in Germany and Adjunct Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in the United States. Prof. Paar has been teaching cryptography to engineering and computer science students in the United States and Europe for 15 years, and he has also taught numerous industrial practitioners at firms such as Motorola, Philips, and NASA.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. January Pelzl began his professional career at Bosch Telecom GmbH. He has a Ph.D. in applied cryptography and has studied the practical elements of elliptic-curve-based cryptography and cryptanalysis as a researcher.

Cryptography is now ubiquitous; we see cryptographic techniques implemented in Web browsers, e-mail programs, cell phones, manufacturing systems, embedded software, smart buildings, cars, and even medical implants, in addition to traditional environments such as government communications and banking systems. Today's designers require a thorough understanding of applied cryptography.

Following an introduction to cryptography and data security, the authors explain the main techniques in modern cryptography, with chapters addressing stream ciphers, the Data Encryption Standard (DES) and 3DES, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), block ciphers, the RSA cryptosystem, public-key cryptosystems based on the discrete logarithm problem, elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC), digital signatures, hash functions, Message (PKI). The authors focus on communicating the essentials while keeping the mathematics to a minimum throughout the book, and they move quickly from explaining the foundations to describing practical implementations, including recent topics such as lightweight ciphers for RFIDs and mobile devices, as well as current key-length recommendations.

The authors have substantial expertise teaching practical cryptography to engineering and computer science students and professionals, and they employ examples, puzzles, and chapter reviews extensively, while the book's website includes slides, projects, and links to other resources. Understanding Cryptography is appropriate for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses, as well as self-study by engineers. It is one of the best books on cryptography.

Author: Christof Paar and Jan Pelzl

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Cryptography-Textbook-Students-Practitioners/dp/3642446493/

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