Introduction to Cryptography with Coding Theory (2nd Edition) at Dominant Systems Book Store

With its conversational tone and practical focus, this text mixes applied and theoretical aspects for a solid introduction to cryptography and security, including the latest significant advancements in the field. Assumes a minimal background. The level of math sophistication is equivalent to a course in linear algebra. Presents applications and protocols where cryptographic primitives are used in practice, such as SET and SSL. Provides a detailed explanation of AES, which has replaced Feistel-based ciphers (DES) as the standard block cipher algorithm. Includes expanded discussions of block ciphers, hash functions, and multicollisions, plus additional attacks on RSA to make readers aware of the strengths and shortcomings of this popular scheme. For engineers interested in learning more about cryptography.

Customer Reviews & Comments
The problems with this book are: (1) The authors failed to explain the math involved in neither rigor nor intuitive way. The authors frequently try to introduce algorithms before explaining the concepts or definition. (2) The book is a mixture of number theory, linear algebra, cryptography, mixed almost randomly, without proper dependency logic. Neither cryptography algorithm, no number theory or linear algebra concepts involved are explained clearly. (3) It is more like a notebook taken by a student. It appears that the authors simply submit the lecture notes for publication, none efforts were made to turn a lecture notes to a published book. Readers are not their students, they do not have access to the authors. It appears to me that this is the only explaination, since I hate to doubt the authors capability in writing a textbook in this field. I simply can not imagine a competent professor in his field writing such a confusing textbook. I hate to spend my time in writing this note, but this book wasted too much my time, I just hope others will be lucky that I am. My knowledge in both math and CS are above Master degree level.

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