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This book is a comprehensive, rigorous introduction to what the authors name ‘modern’ cryptography … a novel approach to how cryptography is taught, replacing the older, construction-based approach. … The concepts are clearly stated, both in an intuitive fashion and formally. … I would heartily recommend this book to anyone who is interested in cryptography. … the exercises are challenging and interesting, and can benefit readers of all academic levels. …
—IACR book reviews, January 2010

Over the past 30 years, cryptography has been transformed from a mysterious art into a mathematically rigorous science. The textbook by Jonathan Katz and Yehuda Lindell finally makes this modern approach to cryptography accessible to a broad audience. Readers of this text will learn how to think precisely about the security of protocols against arbitrary attacks, a skill that will remain relevant and useful regardless of how technology and cryptography standards change. The book uses just enough formalism to maintain precision and rigor without obscuring the development of ideas. It manages to convey both the theory's conceptual beauty and its relevance to practice. I plan to use it every time I teach an undergraduate course in cryptography.
—Salil Vadhan, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

… the greatest attribute is the fact that the material is presented in such a unified way. These are not just a collection of topics from cryptography, thrown together at random. One topic leads effortlessly to the next. As such, this is a virtually indispensible resource for modern cryptography.
—Donald L. Vestal, South Dakota State University, MAA Online, July 2008

… gives an excellent introduction to the theoretical background of cryptography. It would be a fine textbook for an advanced undergraduate (or graduate) course in theoretical computer science for students who have already seen the rudiments of cryptography. It will be a valuable reference for researchers in the field …
—Steven D. Galbraith, Mathematical Reviews, 2009b

The book is highly recommended as a textbook in cryptography courses at graduate or advanced undergraduate levels … covers in a splendid way the main notions of current cryptography from the point of view of information-theoretical security. This corresponds indeed to a modern cryptography approach.
—Guillermo Morales-Luna, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1143

Customer Reviews & Comments
I used this book for a course on modern cryptography held by Prof. Persiano of the University of Salerno, Italy. I read, consulted, and studied other books about cryptography, but 'INTRODUCTION TO MODERN CRYPTOGRAPHY' by Katz and Lindell is in my humble opinion THE BEST. The book has a theoretical flavor, it is mathematically rigorous, but it is very readable and fluent, and presents the motivating discussions beneath each topic. The book is fully self-contained, and gives the necessary background for each topic (for example there is a lot of basic computational number theory necessary for introducing the topic of 'public key'). The beauty of the book is in that the authors don't present a collection of protocols, with no links each other, but the flow is sequential and motivated (in contrast to books which present topics only for filling the pages). All the theorems are proved and the treatment is rigorous, but the theory is developed from scratch, and the book is oriented to beginner students, though it presents also advanced stuff and is one of the most advanced book for beginners. The main contents of the book are: 1) Perfect security and Shannon's theorem (information theoretic security) 2) Computational security, indistinguishability, CPA 3) Pseudorandomness 4) One-way functions, hard-core predicate, Levin's theorem 5) Message Authentication Codes 6) Costructions of Pseudorandom objects, AES, Substitution-Permutation networks 7) Relation between Private-Key, one-way functions and pseudrandomness. 8) Number theory for the cryptography 9) Computational number theory, factorization, square roots,discrete log,diffie-hellman problems 10) Public key, goldwasser-micali, el gamal, pallier, hybrid encryption, encryption schemes based on trapdoor permutations 11)Digital Signature Schemes I wrote only some topics of the book following my taste, but the books contains much more. The exercises left to the end of each chapters are good, and vary from easy to hard. The book i read was in draft form, 320 pages long, but the final edition is about 500 pages long, cause addictional sections have been added. Indeed in the introduction of my book the authors write that their planned to add to the final edition the following: Elliptic curves Sub-exponential factoring algorithms The random oracle model and efficient cryptographic constructions Protocols Given that the final edition is 200 pages longer that my draft i think that these sections have been added. I advice this book to everyone who wants start the study of modern cryptography from a theoretic and rigorous point of view. After you read Katz and Lindell i suggest you to read "Foundations of Cryptography" by Goldreich, but it is too advanced and its reading requires you already read Katz and Lindell.

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