Probabilistic and Statistical Methods in Cryptology An Introduction by Selected Topics /

• Main Author: Neuenschwander, Daniel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2004.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3028
• Subjects: Computer science.; Data encryption (Computer science).; Computers.; Probabilities.; Computer Science.; Theory of Computation.; Data Encryption.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.

Cryptology nowadays is one of the most important areas of applied mathematics, building on deep results and methods from various areas of mathematics. This text is devoted to the study of stochastic aspects of cryptology. Besides classical topics from cryptology, the author presents chapters on prob...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Classical Polyalphabetic Substitution Ciphers
• 2 RSA and Probabilistic Prime Number Tests
• 3 Factorization with Quantum Computers: Shor’s Algorithm
• 4 Physical Random-Number Generators
• 5 Pseudo-random Number Generators
• 6 An Information Theory Primer
• 7 Tests for (Pseudo-)Random Number Generators
• 8 Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
• 9 Differential Cryptanalysis
• 10 Semantic Security
• 11 *Algorithmic Complexity
• 12 Birthday Paradox and Meet-in-the-Middle Attack
• 13 Quantum Cryptography.