Modern Cryptography Theory And Practice - Wenbo Mao
Many cryptographic schemes and protocols, especially those based on public-keycryptography,
have basic or so-called "textbook crypto" versions, as these versionsare usually the subjects for
many textbooks on cryptography. This book takes adifferent approach to introducing
cryptography: it pays much more attention tofit-for-application aspects of cryptography. It
explains why "textbook crypto" isonly good in an ideal world where data are random and bad
guys behave nicely.It reveals the general unfitness of "textbook crypto" for the real world by
demonstratingnumerous attacks on such schemes, protocols and systems under variousreal-world application scenarios. This book chooses to introduce a set of practicalcryptographic
schemes, protocols and systems, many of them standards or de factoones, studies them closely,
explains their working principles, discusses their practicalusages, and examines their strong
(i.e., fit-for-application) security properties, oftenwith security evidence formally established.
The book also includes self-containedtheoretical background material that is the foundation for
modern cryptography.
- Modern Cryptography: Theory and Practice By Wenbo Mao Hewlett-Packard Company
- Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
- Pub Date: July 25, 2003
- ISBN: 0-13-066943-1
- Pages: 648
Many cryptographic schemes and protocols, especially those based on public-keycryptography,
have basic or so-called "textbook crypto" versions, as these versionsare usually the subjects for
many textbooks on cryptography. This book takes adifferent approach to introducing
cryptography: it pays much more attention tofit-for-application aspects of cryptography. It
explains why "textbook crypto" isonly good in an ideal world where data are random and bad
guys behave nicely.It reveals the general unfitness of "textbook crypto" for the real world by
demonstratingnumerous attacks on such schemes, protocols and systems under variousreal-world application scenarios. This book chooses to introduce a set of practicalcryptographic
schemes, protocols and systems, many of them standards or de factoones, studies them closely,
explains their working principles, discusses their practicalusages, and examines their strong
(i.e., fit-for-application) security properties, oftenwith security evidence formally established.
The book also includes self-containedtheoretical background material that is the foundation for
modern cryptography.
