Cryptography Theory and Practice
last modified March 27, 2000 This is the (old) web page for the first edition of the book. A second edition has now been published, and its web page is here. This cryptography textbook by Doug Stinson was published in March, 1995, by CRC Press, Inc It was reprinted with corrections in late 1996: click here This home page contains the following sections: The Fourth Printing Table of Contents Translations Reviews Solutions to Some Exercises Ciphertext for Selected Exercises [March 23, 1999] Errata List (printings 1, 2, and 3) [October 1, 1996] Errata List (fourth and later printings) [March 18, 1999] Supplementary Material
The Fourth Printing At the end of Novermber, 1996, the book was reprinted with corrections. This is the fourth printing of the book. (You can check which printing of the book you have by looking at the second last line of the back of the cover page. The first number in the sequence specifies the printing. For example, the fourth printing looks like 4 5 6 7 8 9 0.) The following are the (only) changes in the fourth pringing: All errors in the Errata List have been corrected. The "Further Reading" section has been updated. Several new books are now referenced, and IACR conference proceedings are included through CRYPTO '96. Several exercises have been changed, mainly to correct bad wording and/or typographical errors. The exercises that have been changed are the following: 1.4, 3.3(d), 3.8 (Figure 3.16), 4.8(b), 4.11, 4.13, 5.9, 6.6, 11.3, and 12.5.
Table of Contents You can view the Table of Contents of the book.
Translations Cryptography Theory and Practice has been translated into French by Serge Vaudenay. It is entitled Cryptography Thorie et Pratique and was published by International Thomson Publishing France, 1996. The book has also been translated into Japanese by Kouichi Sakurai.
Reviews There are now several reviews of the book. The Cryptology Column, SIGACT News, vol. 28, #2, (1995), pp. 18-20; review by Gilles Brassard Cryptologia, vol. 20 (1996), pp. 14-15; review by Louis Kruh Computer and Communications Security Reviews, vol. 4, No. 3 (1995), p. 48 Mathematical Reviews, November 1996, MR 96k:94015; review by Yvo Desmedt Cipher, Electronic Issue (EI) #18, November 11 1996, on-line review by Bob Bruen
Solutions to Some Exercises Answers to some of the exercises can be found here.
Ciphertext for Selected Exercises Ciphertext for some of the exercises can be found here.
Errata List (Printings 1, 2, and 3) I have constructed an errata list, which can be found here .
Errata List (Fourth and later printings) I have constructed an errata list for the fourth and later printings, which can be found here .
Supplementary Material Here are some supplementary notes on specific topics, stored in the form of postscript files: The Vigenere Tableau Involutory Keys in the Affine Cipher Inverting Matrices over Rings Combining LFSRs to Achieve Nonlinearlity Cryptanalyzing a Keystream Obtained from the Product of Two LFSRs On the Decryption Exponent of RSA RSA, Factoring, and Squeamish Ossifrage The Pohlig-Hellman Algorithm The Group Operation for Elliptic Curves Finding Primitive Elements in Z_p A More Efficient Method of Breaking a Vigenere Cipher I also maintain bibliographies on research papers in two areas of cryptography: secret sharing schemes and authentication codes.
Doug Stinson's Address Department of Combinatorics and Optimization University of Waterloo Waterloo Ontario, N2L 3G1 Canada Telephone: (519) 888-4567, ext. 5590 Fax: (519) 725-5441
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