Ebook Cryptography and Network Security Principles and Practices: Part 1

The following will be discussed in Cryptography and Network Security Principles and Practices - Part 1: Introduction, classical encryption techniques, block ciphers and the data encryption standard, finite fields, advanced encryption standard, more on symmetric ciphers, confidentiality using symmetric encryption, introduction to number theory, public-key cryptography and RSA, key management - other public-key cryptosystems, message authentication and hash functions, hash and MAC algorithms, digital signatures and authentication protocols,...