338 Pages
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Routledge
338 Pages
by
Routledge
338 Pages
by
Routledge
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Secure message transmission is of extreme importance in today's information-based society: military, diplomatic, and corporate data transmissions must be safeguarded; so also must the account of every individual who has an automatic-teller bank account or whose purchases are subject to point-of-sale, direct account debiting. The only known way to keep all such transactions secret and authentic is... Read more
1 Introduction PART 1. THE CONTEMPORARY (1981) SCENE 2 Computationally Hard Problems as a Source for Cryptosystems 3 Conventional Versus Public Key Cryptosystems 4 Protocols for Public Key Cryptosystems 5 Message Authentication Without Secrecy PART 2. THE ORIGINS OF THE SUBJECT 6 New Directions in Cryptography 7 Secure Communications over Insecure, 8 Hiding Information and Signatures in Trapdoor Knapsacks--9 A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public Key Cryptosystems 10 Symmetric and Asymmetric Encryption PART 3. THE FUTURE 11 Cryptographic Technology: Fifteen-Year Forecast
Biography
Gustavus J. Simmons is manager of the Applied Mathematics Depaptment at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico
