The Block Cipher Companion

• Main Authors: Knudsen, Lars R. (Author), Robshaw, Matthew J.B (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Information Security and Cryptography,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Data structures (Computer science).; Computer science > Mathematics.; Computer Science.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.; Mathematics of Computing.

Block ciphers encrypt blocks of plaintext, messages, into blocks of ciphertext under the action of a secret key, and the process of encryption is reversed by decryption which uses the same user-supplied key. Block ciphers are fundamental to modern cryptography, in fact they are the most widely used...