Introduction to Modern Cryptography (Chapman & Hall/CRC Cryptography and Network Security Series) 2nd Edition by Jonathan Katz (PDF)

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Cryptography is ubiquitous and plays a key role in ensuring data secrecy and integrity as well as in securing computer systems more broadly. Introduction to Modern Cryptography provides a rigorous yet accessible treatment of this fascinating subject. The authors introduce the core principles of modern cryptography, with an emphasis on formal definitions, clear assumptions, and rigorous proofs of security. The book begins by focusing on private-key cryptography, including an extensive treatment of private-key encryption, message authentication codes, and hash functions. The authors also present design principles for widely used stream ciphers and block ciphers including RC4, DES, and AES, plus provide provable constructions of stream ciphers and block ciphers from lower-level primitives. The second half of the book covers public-key cryptography, beginning with a self-contained introduction to the number theory needed to understand the RSA, Diffie-Hellman, and El Gamal cryptosystems (and others), followed by a thorough treatment of several standardized public-key encryption and digital signature schemes. Integrating a more practical perspective without sacrificing rigor, this widely anticipated Second Edition offers improved treatment of:Stream ciphers and block ciphers, including modes of operation and design principlesAuthenticated encryption and secure communication sessionsHash functions, including hash-function applications and design principles Attacks on poorly implemented cryptography, including attacks on chained-CBC encryption, padding-oracle attacks, and timing attacksThe random-oracle model and its application to several standardized, widely used public-key encryption and signature schemesElliptic-curve cryptography and associated standards such as DSA/ECDSA and DHIES/ECIESContaining updated exercises and worked examples, Introduction to Modern Cryptography, Second Edition can serve as a textbook for undergraduate- or graduate-level courses in cryptography, a valuable reference for researchers and practitioners, or a general introduction suitable for self-study.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “The work is comprehensive, rigorous, and yet accessible for dedicated students.”―Computing Reviews, October 2015″… this book fills a significant gap among previous cryptography textbooks by explicitly discussing the philosophy behind this approach, gradually building up the relevant theory and giving a broad overview of the discipline conceived within this framework. The result is a coherent picture of the field that provides a pleasing clarity in its explanation of this perspective through a systematic, step-by-step development of important concepts. … The material from the first edition has been restructured and expanded, with an emphasis on practical aspects that provides a nice counterpoint to the theory and helps to highlight its real-world relevance. … This textbook is appropriate for use in teaching at either an advanced undergraduate or graduate level … a particularly valuable resource for graduate students with a computer science or mathematics background who are seeking a pathway to understanding the current cryptography research literature. In the preface, the authors mention their aim of treating modern cryptography through a unified approach that is rigorous yet accessible―Introduction to Modern Cryptography achieves this admirably.”―Mathematical Reviews, August 2015Praise for the First Edition: “This book is a comprehensive, rigorous introduction to what the authors name ‘modern’ cryptography. … a novel approach to how cryptography is taught, replacing the older, construction-based approach. … The concepts are clearly stated, both in an intuitive fashion and formally. … I would heartily recommend this book to anyone who is interested in cryptography. … The exercises are challenging and interesting, and can benefit readers of all academic levels.”―IACR Book Reviews, January 2010″Over the past 30 years, cryptography has been transformed from a mysterious art into a mathematically rigorous science. The textbook by Jonathan Katz and Yehuda Lindell finally makes this modern approach to cryptography accessible to a broad audience. Readers of this text will learn how to think precisely about the security of protocols against arbitrary attacks, a skill that will remain relevant and useful regardless of how technology and cryptography standards change. The book uses just enough formalism to maintain precision and rigor without obscuring the development of ideas. It manages to convey both the theory’s conceptual beauty and its relevance to practice. I plan to use it every time I teach an undergraduate course in cryptography.”―Salil Vadhan, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA”The greatest attribute is the fact that the material is presented in such a unified way. This is not just a collection of topics from cryptography thrown together at random. One topic leads effortlessly to the next. As such, this is a virtually indispensable resource for modern cryptography.”―Donald L. Vestal, South Dakota State University, Brookings, USA, MAA Online, July 2008″… an excellent introduction to the theoretical background of cryptography. It would be a fine textbook for an advanced undergraduate (or graduate) course in theoretical computer science for students who have already seen the rudiments of cryptography. It will be a valuable reference for researchers in the field.”―Steven D. Galbraith, Mathematical Reviews, 2009″The book is highly recommended as a textbook in cryptography courses at graduate or advanced undergraduate levels. … covers, in a splendid way, the main notions of current cryptography from the point of view of information-theoretical security. This corresponds indeed to a modern cryptography approach.”―Guillermo Morales-Luna, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1143″The work is comprehensive, rigorous, and yet accessible for dedicated students.”―Computing Reviews, October 2015″… this book fills a significant gap among previous cryptography textbooks by explicitly discussing the philosophy behind this approach, gradually building up the relevant theory and giving a broad overview of the discipline conceived within this framework. The result is a coherent picture of the field that provides a pleasing clarity in its explanation of this perspective through a systematic, step-by-step development of important concepts. … The material from the first edition has been restructured and expanded, with an emphasis on practical aspects that provides a nice counterpoint to the theory and helps to highlight its real-world relevance. … This textbook is appropriate for use in teaching at either an advanced undergraduate or graduate level … a particularly valuable resource for graduate students with a computer science or mathematics background who are seeking a pathway to understanding the current cryptography research literature. In the preface, the authors mention their aim of treating modern cryptography through a unified approach that is rigorous yet accessible―Introduction to Modern Cryptography achieves this admirably.”―Mathematical Reviews, August 2015Praise for the First Edition:”This book is a comprehensive, rigorous introduction to what the authors name ‘modern’ cryptography. … a novel approach to how cryptography is taught, replacing the older, construction-based approach. … The concepts are clearly stated, both in an intuitive fashion and formally. … I would heartily recommend this book to anyone who is interested in cryptography. … The exercises are challenging and interesting, and can benefit readers of all academic levels.”―IACR Book Reviews, January 2010″Over the past 30 years, cryptography has been transformed from a mysterious art into a mathematically rigorous science. The textbook by Jonathan Katz and Yehuda Lindell finally makes this modern approach to cryptography accessible to a broad audience. Readers of this text will learn how to think precisely about the security of protocols against arbitrary attacks, a skill that will remain relevant and useful regardless of how technology and cryptography standards change. The book uses just enough formalism to maintain precision and rigor without obscuring the development of ideas. It manages to convey both the theory’s conceptual beauty and its relevance to practice. I plan to use it every time I teach an undergraduate course in cryptography.”―Salil Vadhan, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA”The greatest attribute is the fact that the material is presented in such a unified way. This is not just a collection of topics from cryptography thrown together at random. One topic leads effortlessly to the next. As such, this is a virtually indispensable resource for modern cryptography.”―Donald L. Vestal, South Dakota State University, Brookings, USA, MAA Online, July 2008″… an excellent introduction to the theoretical background of cryptography. It would be a fine textbook for an advanced undergraduate (or graduate) course in theoretical computer science for students who have already seen the rudiments of cryptography. It will be a valuable reference for researchers in the field.”―Steven D. Galbraith, Mathematical Reviews, 2009″The book is highly recommended as a textbook in cryptography courses at graduate or advanced undergraduate levels. … covers, in a splendid way, the main notions of current cryptography from the point of view of information-theoretical security. This corresponds indeed to a modern cryptography approach.”―Guillermo Morales-Luna, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1143 About the Author Jonathan Katz is a professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, and director of the Maryland Cybersecurity Center. He has published over 100 articles on cryptography, and serves as an editor of the Journal of Cryptology, the premier journal of the field. Prof. Katz has been invited to give introductory lectures on cryptography for audiences in academia, industry, and government, as well as an on-line cryptography course through Coursera.Yehuda Lindell is a professor of computer science at Bar-Ilan University. He has published more than 90 articles on cryptography and four books, and has considerable industry experience in deploying cryptographic schemes. Professor Lindell lectures widely in both academic and industry venues on both theoretical and applied cryptography, and has been recognized with two prestigious grants from the European Research Council.

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⭐This is a serious introduction book. I enjoyed Katz’s course on Coursera.Note this is theoretical. If you are looking for material on hardware or physical attacks like side channel attacks or fault injection attacks, you will need to look elsewhere. With that said, it is useful as a reference even after you have digested the material because Katz is very particular with rigor, notation, and word choice — the result of a mathematician who cares about communication.

⭐As a student enrolled in a Computer Security course and considering a career in Cybersecurity Engineering, I am finding the theoretical content of this book to be useful so far. Unfortunately, as a Linux user this ebook is more difficult to access than most others, as it is NOT COMPATIBLE with the Kindle Cloud Reader nor my Kindle device. I suspect my rating would increase if this product was made compatible with those devices, but I will continue reading this book on my smartphone screen.

⭐I have not finished the book yet, but from material I went so far and from Jonathan Katz’s course on Cryptography I think I can describe authors way of providing information. I would characterize it in two keywords: rigorous and complete. Other materials I have met were maybe more lively but this one is is the best if you are really serious about crypto. It will give all the details you need to understand and work with modern cryptographic primitives. I will teach how to prove or disprove properties of various cryptographic schemes.

⭐In excellent condition

⭐I used it for a course I was taking and it is a good reference material for those planning to learn cryptography.

⭐The book is pretty new, good rent!

⭐Delivery was not bad Nearly 10-15 days. No complaints about the book its brand new with a hard cover.

⭐okay

⭐It’s a dense, tough book which looks at modern cryptographic tools and concepts in an extremely precise, formal, logical way, offering a complete course in modern cryptography. Recommended for students or researchers of maths, computer science or cyber security of at least MSc level, as it is fairly advanced.Key topics include “provable security”, the idea that we can formalise an encryption scheme in such a way that we can prove that, assuming some NP-hard maths problem is not solvable in (probabilistic) polynomial time, it cannot be broken in (probabilistic) polynomial time; where “broken” means “determine the content with probability significantly greater than randomly guessing”.

⭐Excellent book. I purchased this book to follow a course in cryptography based on it, and it perfectly did the job. The writing is clear and the various notions are progressively introduced to the reader, which makes it pretty self-contained.This book is not intended to the persons who want to implement cryptographic algorithms, although various attacks and limitations are discussed in the numerous exercises. It is rather intended to whom wants to see a bullet-proof construction of cryptographic primitives, and learn the methods to prove them correct.

⭐Wow, if this is “introduction” level the advanced crypto books would make my head explode :)If you are a uni Infosec student this would be right up your street.

⭐I bought the kindle edition – when I try to download it, it tells me it’s not in the right format for Kindle… buy the physical copy….Hardback copy is excellent and a perfect reference book for this topic.

⭐This book is great, but good understandings of Probability and Number Theories are required.

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