Codes: The Guide to Secrecy from Ancient to Modern Times (Hardcover)

Preface
FROM THE RIDDLES OF ANCIENT EGYPT TO CRYPTOGRAPHY IN THE RENAISSANCE-3,500 YEARS IN THE MAKING
Antiquity-From Phaistos
Cryptography in Classical Literature
The Middle Ages
Cryptology and the Arabs
Rise of the West

FROM SIXTEENTH-CENTURY CRYPTOGRAPHY TO THE NEW MILLENNIUM-THE LAST 500 YEARS
Three Post-Renaissance Centuries
The American Colonies
Nineteenth-Century Cryptography
Two World Wars
The Post War Era and the Future

SYMMETRIC-KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY
Block Ciphers and DES
S-DES and DES
Modes of Operation
Blowfish
The Advanced Encryption Standard
Stream Ciphers
RC4

PUBLIC-KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY
The Ideas Behind PKC
RSA
Digital Signatures
ElGamal

CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROTOCOLS
Introduction
Keys
Identification
Commitment
Secret Sharing
Electronic Voting
Protocol Layers and SSL
Digital Cash Schemes

KEY MANAGEMENT
Authentication, Exchange, and Distribution
Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
Secure Electronic Transaction (SET)

MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION
Authentication Functions
Message Authentication Codes
Encryption Functions
Authentication Applications

ELECTRONIC MAIL AND INTERNET SECURITY
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
S/MIME and PGP
IPSec
Internetworking and Security-Firewalls
Client-Server Model and Cookies
History of the Internet and the WWW

APPLICATIONS AND THE FUTURE
Login and Network Security
Wireless Security
Smart Cards
Biometrics
Quantum Cryptography
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Compliance

NON-CRYPTOGRAPHIC SECURITY ISSUES
Cybercrime
Hackers
Viruses and Other Infections
Legal Matters and Controversy

INFORMATION THEORY AND CODING
Shannon
Entropy
Huffman Codes
Information Theory of Cryptosystems
Error-Correcting Codes

APPENDIX A: MATHEMATICAL FACTS
Sets, Relations, and Functions
Basic Arithmetic
Modular Arithmetic
Groups, Fields, Modules, and Rings
Vector Spaces
Basic Matrix Theory
Continued Fractions
Elliptic Curves
Complexity

APPENDIX B: PSEUDO-RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION
ANSI X9.17
The Blum-Blum-Shub-(BBS) PRNG
APPENDIX C: FACTORING LARGE INTEGERS
Classical Factorization Methods
The Continued Fraction Algorithm
Pollard's p-1 Algorithm
Pollard's Rho-Method
The Quadratic Sieve (QS)
Multipolynomial Quadratic Sieve (MPQS)
The Elliptic Curve Method (ECM)
The General Number Field Sieve
APPENDIX D: TECHNICAL AND ADVANCED DETAILS
AES
Silver-Pohlig-Hellman
Baby-Step Giant-Step Algorithm
Index-Calculus Algorithm
Brands' Digital Cash Scheme
Radix-64 Encoding
APPENDIX E: PROBABILITY THEORY
Basic Probability
Randomness, Expectation, and Variance
Binomial Distribution
The Law of Large Numbers
Probability and Error Detection
APPENDIX F: RECOGNIZING PRIMES
Primality and Compositeness Tests
Miller-Selfridge-Rabin
Primes is in P
Generation of Random Primes
Decision Problem or Primality Test?
APPENDIX G: EXERCISES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
LIST OF SYMBOLS
INDEX