Understanding Cryptography
Christof Paar holds the Chair for Embedded Security at the University of Bochum in Germany and is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in the United States. Paar has taught cryptography to engineering and computer science students in the United States and Europe for 15 years, and he has taught many industrial practitioners at organizations such as Motorola, Philips, and NASA.
January Pelzl began his career at Bosch Telecom GmbH after earning a Ph.D. in applied cryptography and investigating the practical aspects of elliptic-curve-based cryptography and cryptanalysis as a researcher. He has extensively published about his theoretical and industrial work in leading international conferences and journals, and he has taught numerous IT security and cryptography courses in industry.
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 extensive experience teaching applied cryptography to engineering and computer science students and professionals, and they use examples, problems, and chapter reviews extensively, while the book's website includes slides, projects, and links to additional resources. Understanding Cryptography is appropriate for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses, as well as self-study by engineers. It is regarded as 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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