Contemporary Cryptography

Rolf Oppliger is the founder and owner of eSECURITY Technologies, works for the Swiss federal administration, and teaches at the University of Zurich. He is also the author of Security Technologies for the World Wide Web, Second Edition, Internet and Intranet Security, Second Edition and Secure Messaging with PGP and S/MIME (Artech House, 2003, 2002, 2001) among other titles.

Introduction. Cryptographic Systems. Mathematical Fundamentals - Discrete Mathematics. Probability Theory. Information Theory. Complexity Theory. Unkeyed Cryptosystems - One-Way Functions. Cryptographic Hash Functions. Random Bit Generators. Secret Key Crytosystems - Symmetric Encryption Systems. Message Authentication Codes. Pseudo-Random Bit Generators. Pseudo-Random Functions. Public Key Cryptosystems - Asymmetric Encryption Systems. Digital Signature Systems. Key Establishment. Entity Authentication. Secure Multi-Party Computation. Epilogue - Key Management. Conclusions. Outlook.