The New Codebreakers Essays Dedicated to David Kahn on the Occasion of His 85th Birthday /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ryan, Peter Y. A. (Editor), Naccache, David (Editor), Quisquater, Jean-Jacques (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 9100
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer security.; Data encryption (Computer science).; Algorithms.; Management information systems.; Computer Science.; Data Encryption.; Systems and Data Security.; Management of Computing and Information Systems.; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).
• Physical Description: XIV, 551 p. 135 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783662493014
• ISSN: 0302-9743 ;

This Festschrift volume is published in honor of David Kahn and is the outcome of a Fest held in Luxembourg in 2010 on the occasion of David Kahn’s 80th birthday. The title of this books leans on the title of a serious history of cryptology named “The Codebreakers”, written by David Kahn and published in 1967. This book contains 35 talks dealing with cryptography as a whole. They are organized in topical section named: history; technology – past, present, future; efficient cryptographic implementations; treachery and perfidy; information security; cryptanalysis; side-channel attacks; randomness embedded system security; public-key cryptography; and models and protocols. .