Cryptography: Theory and Practice, Second Edition

Author: Douglas Stinson List Price: $79.95 Our Price: Click to see the latest and low price ISBN: 1584882069 Publisher: Chapman & Hall (27 February, 2002) Edition: Hardcover Sales Rank: 124,203 Average Customer Rating: 3.56 out of 5

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Chapter 3, which deals with block ciphers and linear and differential cryptoanalysis, is very well-written. This is the best presentation of such a subject in few pages I have seen until now.

Chapters 4, 5, 6 and 7 have been significantly updated and expanded with concepts and techniques that are fundamental in order to understand current researches and state of knowledge in Cryptography (e.g., random oracle model, semantic security, new attacks against public key cryptosystems, an in-depth introduction to elliptic curve ...).

Compared to the previous edition, more emphasys has been given in some parts to security proofs (e.g, chapter 4), and several new exercises have been proposed at the end of each chapter.

Other readers have pointed out that there are some typos (the author has made available an errata list on his home page) but I think that the value of the book is not reduced in any way.

In my opinion it is a great book for people who want to be introduced to problems, ideas, and techniques used in Cryptography.

** This edition has alot of errors (typos mostly).

** For a compsci guys the math is probably very detailed but for me (as a mathematician) I think he takes too much for granted.

** Better than Schnier on cryptanalysis and attack mentality.

** The section on linear cryptanalysis took along time to understand though, and the break came when I downloaded additional tutorials from the internet.

** Very good section on AES.

** The algorithm descriptions (in pseudocode) are terrible to read, they are next to unreadable actually. He uses unnecessary indices, and the code is often thrown right in your face without explaination.

** The book is way too expensive, so at the end of the day I suggest students should be downloading the free e-book "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" instead... but if you work for a company with alot of money... this book is still pretty good.

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