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- From: hal@gateway.mitre.org (Hal Feinstein)
- Subject: FAQ/good resource
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:09:57 GMT
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- A good introductory book on cryptograhy is NIST special publication 800-2
- called Public-Key Cryptograhy" by James Nechvatal April 1991
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- Contents:
- Cryptosystems and crypanalysis
- Key Management
- Digital Signatures and Has Functions
- Examples of public key systems and hash functions
- Implementations of public key cryptography
- Sample proposal for a Lan Implementation
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- Appendix
- Mathematical and Computational Aspects
- Algorithmw and architectures
- The classicla theory of computation
- theory of probablistic computing
- breaking knapsacks
- Birthday attacks
- Modular arithmetic and Galois Fields
- Euclid's Algorithm
- Chinese Remainder theorem
- Primative Roots and discrete logs
- Primality tests
- Mathematics of RSA
- Quadratic residuosity modulo a compositite
- introduction to zero knowledge proofs
- alternatives to diffie/hellman model
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- The text is 162 pages long and is not an in-depth examination of these
- topics but a good introduction. Just right for the frequenctly asked
- beginner questions.
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