Foundations of Cryptography: Volume 1, Basic Tools 1st Edition by Oded Goldreich (PDF)

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Cryptography is concerned with the conceptualization, definition and construction of computing systems that address security concerns. This book presents a rigorous and systematic treatment of the foundational issues: defining cryptographic tasks and solving new cryptographic problems using existing tools. It focuses on the basic mathematical tools: computational difficulty (one-way functions), pseudorandomness and zero-knowledge proofs. Rather than describing ad-hoc approaches, this book emphasizes the clarification of fundamental concepts and the demonstration of the feasibility of solving cryptographic problems. It is suitable for use in a graduate course on cryptography and as a reference book for experts.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “[Foundations of Cryptography: Basic Tools] presents complexity research which gives the mathematical underpinnings for cryptography; this includes one-way functions, pseudorandom generators, and zero-knowledge proofs…if a reader wants to learn about foundational work, Goldreich’s books are the place to go.” Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society”…well-written…” Zentralblatt MATH”Foundations of Cryptography contains what is currently the best published treatment of the formal aspects of modern cryptography and serves as “required reading” for anyone interested in the field… Throughout, definitions are complete and detailed; proofs are rigorous and given in full… Th book remains a “must-read’ for all graduate students and researchers interested in this area, and is well-suited for an advanced course. Kudos to the author for publishing the first book which truly covers modern cryptography, and for doing an excellent job of it!” Jonathan Katz, University of Maryland for SIGACT News Book Description Focuses on the basic mathematical tools needed for cryptographic design: computational difficulty (one-way functions), pseudorandomness and zero-knowledge proofs. About the Author Oded Goldreich is a Professor of Computer Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science and an Incumbent of the Meyer W. Weisgal Professorial Chair. He is an editor for the SIAM Journal on Computing, the Journal of Cryptology, and Computational Complexity, and previously authored the books Modern Cryptography, Probabilistic Proofs and Pseudorandomness, Computational Complexity: A Conceptual Perspective, and the two-volume work Foundations of Cryptography. Read more

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⭐Good for the study of modern cryptography. Recommended by the open course ware at MIT.

⭐This is a great book. Solid, rigorous but not obscure. The author goes into lots of details and presents long proofs along the way, but the book is supposed to be like that… You will find a rigorous introduction to three concepts: one-way functions, pseudorandom generators and zero-knowledge proofs. Volume II of the book will show how to conceptually build cryptographic tools using these concepts (but he won’t present pseudocode or get into implementation details — that’s not the point of his work).Sections that are difficult and that could be skipped are marked with an asterisk.One thing the reader should be aware of is that the author strongly opposes to using the “Random Oracle model”, so if you want more information on that you’ll have to find it elsewhere.For anyone interested in theoretical cryptography, I’d say this book is absolutely required reading — I suggest always having it around for reference.

⭐This book hits some extremes in good and bad. The good is easy: There are few (no?) other books that fill the niche of theoretical cryptography. There are some excellent lecture notes from Bellare and Goldwasser that are available on the web, but they don’t go into the detailed motivation of topics that Goldreich does. The topics that Goldreich has chosen cover a lot of important areas, and he has done a great job of pulling out the best, most essential results to present.However, the bad part is that the writing is simply horrible. There seems to be little planning and things simply don’t flow at all. Here’s a specific example, which is so bad as to almost be funny: There’s a huge use of footnotes for side comments, mostly because of this “stream of consciousness” writing that doesn’t work things in properly. The first footnote in chapter 4 says, believe it or not, “See Footnote 13”. Huh? So I go digging through the later part of the chapter, looking desperately for this gem of knowledge that will be in footnote 13, and what is it? The definition of a graph! Now come on — chapter 4 of a book, where we’ve been dealing with advanced topics in computer science, and they feel the need to define a graph!?!?! Through several levels of indirection in footnotes? Come on guys, what editor let that one through?Oded is a great computer scientist, and a good guy, but please, PLEASE get a good editor for the other volumes, or maybe even a good writer to team up with!

⭐After reading some of chapters, it seems to me that it is a bit difficult to understand even some easy concepts. The book is rich, but again it lacks of good explanations at some points.

⭐Perfect for the basic stuff

⭐Good for advanced cryptography learning. It is 1st book from author. Students from final year graduation and masters or PhD, suitable book for them for research or for good cryptography work.

⭐Good book

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