Introduction to Modern Cryptography

Jonathan Katz is Director, Maryland Cybersecurity Center and Professor, Department of Computer Science and UMIACS Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Maryland. He is the co-author with Yehuda Lindell of Introdution to Modern Cryptography, Second Edition, published by CRC Press.Vadim Yehuda Lindell is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University where he conducts research on cryptography with a focus on the theory of secure computation and its application in practice. Lindell received a Raviv Fellowship[1] and spent two years at IBM's cryptography research group at the T.J. Watson Research Center.

1. Introduction. 2. Perfectly Secret Encryption. 3. Private-Key Encryption. 4. Message Authentication Codes. 5. CCA-Security and Authenticated Encryption. 6. Hash Functions and Applications. 7. Practical Constructions of Symmetric-Key Primitives. 8. *Theoretical Constructions of Symmetric-Key Primitives. 9. Number Theory and Cryptographic Hardness Assumptions. 10. *Algorithms for Factoring and Computing Discrete Logarithms. 11. Key Management and the Public-Key Revolution. 12. Public-Key Encryption. 13. Digital Signature Schemes. 14. *Post-Quantum Cryptography. 15. *Advanced Topics in Public-Key Encryption.