Fundamentals of Modern Cryptography (National General Planning Textbook for Ordinary Higher Education Level 15)

Author: Zhang Zhaozhi
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: This book comprehensively and deeply introduces the fundamental theories of modern cryptography. It is divided into 15 chapters and 1 appendix. The content includes the basic problems of cryptography research, classical cryptography, the information theory and computational complexity theory foundations of cryptography, the rigorous theory of one-way functions and pseudo-random sequence generators, stream ciphers, block ciphers, and public-key cryptography, digital signatures, hash functions, identity authentication, authentication codes, key management, and zero-knowledge proofs. The appendix covers the fundamental knowledge of algebra and elementary number theory used in the book, and each chapter also includes notes and exercises. The book emphasizes the combination of rigorous theory and intuitive descriptions. While introducing classical cryptographic systems, it summarizes general principles, methods, and basic tools, and also focuses on introducing some new cryptographic systems. This book is written as a professional foundational course textbook for information security majors and is suitable for undergraduate students of information security, as well as those of computer applications, information engineering, applied mathematics, and related undergraduate majors. It can also serve as a reference for technical personnel engaged in information security and graduate students in related fields.