Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption
Cybersecurity
Book Details
Book Title
Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption
Author
Jean-Philippe Aumasson
Publisher
No Starch Press
Publication Date
2024
ISBN
9781718503847
Number of Pages
788
Language
English
Format
File Size
5.24MB
Subject
Computers > Security
Table of Contents
- Serious Cryptography
- Praise for Serious Cryptography
- Title Page
- Copyright
- About the Author and Technical Reviewer
- Foreword to the First Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- List of Abbreviations
- Part I: Fundamentals
- Chapter 1: Encryption
- The Basics
- Classical Ciphers
- How Ciphers Work
- The Perfect Cipher: The One-Time Pad
- Encryption Security
- Asymmetric Encryption
- When Ciphers Do More Than Encryption
- How Things Can Go Wrong
- Further Reading
- Chapter 2: Randomness
- Random or Nonrandom?
- Randomness as a Probability Distribution
- Entropy: A Measure of Uncertainty
- Random and Pseudorandom Number Generators
- Real-World PRNGs
- How Things Can Go Wrong
- Further Reading
- Chapter 3: Cryptographic Security
- Defining the Impossible
- Quantifying Security
- Achieving Security
- Generating Keys
- How Things Can Go Wrong
- Further Reading
- Part II: Symmetric Crypto
- Chapter 4: Block Ciphers
- What Is a Block Cipher?
- How to Construct Block Ciphers
- The Advanced Encryption Standard
- How to Implement AES
- Modes of Operation
- How Things Can Go Wrong
- Further Reading
- Chapter 5: Stream Ciphers
- How Stream Ciphers Work
- Hardware-Oriented Stream Ciphers
- Software-Oriented Stream Ciphers
- How Things Can Go Wrong
- Further Reading
- Chapter 6: Hash Functions
- Secure Hash Functions
- How to Build Hash Functions
- The SHA Family of Hash Functions
- The BLAKE2 and BLAKE3 Hash Functions
- How Things Can Go Wrong
- Further Reading
- Chapter 7: Keyed Hashing
- Message Authentication Codes
- Pseudorandom Functions
- How to Create Keyed Hashes from Unkeyed Hashes
- How to Create Keyed Hashes from Block Ciphers
- Dedicated MAC Designs
- How Things Can Go Wrong
- Further Reading
- Chapter 8: Authenticated Encryption
- Authenticated Encryption Using MACs
- Authenticated Ciphers
- The AES-GCM Authenticated Cipher Standard
- The OCB Authenticated Cipher Mode
- The SIV Authenticated Cipher Mode
- Permutation-Based AEAD
- How Things Can Go Wrong
- Further Reading
- Part III: Asymmetric Crypto
- Chapter 9: Hard Problems
- Computational Hardness
- Complexity Classes
- The Factoring Problem
- The Discrete Logarithm Problem
- How Things Can Go Wrong
- Further Reading
- Chapter 10: RSA
- The Math Behind RSA
- The RSA Trapdoor Permutation
- RSA Key Generation and Security
- Encrypting with RSA
- Signing with RSA
- RSA Implementations
- How Things Can Go Wrong
- Further Reading
- Chapter 11: Diffie–Hellman
- The Diffie–Hellman Function
- The Diffie–Hellman Problems
- Key Agreement Protocols
- Diffie–Hellman Protocols
- How Things Can Go Wrong
- Further Reading
- Chapter 12: Elliptic Curves
- What Is an Elliptic Curve?
- The ECDLP Problem
- Diffie–Hellman Key Agreement over Elliptic Curves
- Signing with Elliptic Curves
- Encrypting with Elliptic Curves
- Choosing a Curve
- How Things Can Go Wrong
- Further Reading
- Part IV: Applications
- Chapter 13: TLS
- Target Applications and Requirements
- The TLS Protocol Suite
- TLS 1.3 Improvements over TLS 1.2
- The Strengths of TLS Security
- How Things Can Go Wrong
- Further Reading
- Chapter 14: Quantum and Post-Quantum
- How Quantum Computers Work
- Quantum Speedup
- Why Is It So Hard to Build a Quantum Computer?
- Post-Quantum Cryptographic Algorithms
- The NIST Standards
- How Things Can Go Wrong
- Further Reading
- Chapter 15: Cryptocurrency Cryptography
- Hashing Applications
- Multisignature Protocols
- Aggregate Signature Protocols
- Threshold Signature Protocols
- Zero-Knowledge Proofs
- Really Serious Crypto
- Index