Alfred J. Menezes Boeken

Cryptography, in particular public-key cryptography, has emerged in the last 20 years as an important discipline that is not only the subject of an enormous amount of research, but provides the foundation for information security in many applications. Standards are emerging to meet the demands for cryptographic protection in most areas of data communications. Public-key cryptographic techniques are now in widespread use, especially in the financial services industry, in the public sector, and by individuals for their personal privacy, such as in electronic mail. This Handbook will serve as a valuable reference for the novice as well as for the expert who needs a wider scope of coverage within the area of cryptography. It is a necessary and timely guide for professionals who practice the art of cryptography. The Handbook of Applied Cryptography provides a treatment that is multifunctional: It serves as an introduction to the more practical aspects of both conventional and public-key cryptographyIt is a valuable source of the latest techniques and algorithms for the serious practitionerIt provides an integrated treatment of the field, while still presenting each major topic as a self-contained unitIt provides a mathematical treatment to accompany practical discussionsIt contains enough abstraction to be a valuable reference for theoreticians while containing enough detail to actually allow implementation of the algorithms discussedNow in its third printing, this is the definitive cryptography reference that the novice as well as experienced developers, designers, researchers, engineers, computer scientists, and mathematicians alike will use.

Focusing on the application of elliptic curves, this book explores their significant role in algebraic geometry and number theory. It highlights their recent contributions to developing efficient algorithms for integer factorization and primality testing, as well as their importance in constructing public key cryptosystems. The text delves into the mathematical principles underlying these applications, making it a valuable resource for those interested in advanced computational techniques and cryptographic methods.

This work covers a wide range of topics in cryptography and information security. It begins with practical cryptanalysis, including full key-recovery attacks on HMAC/NMAC-MD4 and NMAC-MD5, and explores secure searching methods and public key encryption that allows PIR queries. Theoretical discussions include cryptography with constant input locality, universally-composable two-party computation, and indistinguishability amplification, alongside lattice-based cryptography and attacks against NTRU. The text delves into random oracles, domain extensions of public random functions, and security-amplifying combiners for hash functions, addressing collision resistance and the boomerang attack. It also examines the requirements for secure multiparty computation, including the number of oblivious transfers needed and applications of simulatable VRFs. Quantum cryptography is discussed, particularly secure identification and QKD in bounded-quantum-storage models. Cryptanalysis further investigates small roots of bivariate integer polynomial equations and presents a polynomial-time attack on RSA with specific private CRT-exponents. Encryption topics include invertible universal hashing, reducing trust in PKG in identity-based systems, and pirate evolution strategies. Protocol analysis covers the security of the NIST SP 800-90 elliptic curve random number generator, generalizations of the DDH assumption, and public-key encryption ad

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Cryptographers’ Track at the RSA Conference 2005, CT-RSA 2005, held in San Francisco, CA, USA in February 2005. The 23 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cryptanalysis, public key encryption, signature schemes, design principles, password-based protocols, pairings, and efficient and secure implementations.

The third successful completion of the INDOCRYPT conference series marks the acceptance of the series by the international research community as a forum for presenting high-quality research. It also marks the coming of age of cryptology research in India. The authors for the submitted papers were spread across 21 countries and 4 continents, which goes a long way to demonstrate the international interest and visibility of INDOCRYPT. In the previous two conferences, the submissions from India originated from only two institutes; this increased to six for the 2002 conference. Thus INDOCRYPT is well set on the path to achieving two main ob jectives – to provide an international platform for presenting high-quality research and to stimulate cryptology research in India. The opportunity to serve as a program co-chair for the third INDOCRYPT carries a special satisfaction for the second editor. Way back in 1998, the sci- ti? c analysis group of DRDO organized a National Seminar on Cryptology and abbreviated it as NSCR. On attending the seminar, the second editor suggested that the conference name be changed to INDOCRYPT. It is nice to see that this suggestion was taken up, giving us the annual INDOCRYPT conference - ries. Of course, the form, character, and execution of the conference series was the combined e? ort of the entire Indian cryptographic community under the dynamic leadership of Bimal Roy.