Modern cryptography : theory and practice / Wenbo Mao.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 673-698) and index.

I. Introduction -- 1. Beginning with a Simple Communication Game -- 2. Wrestling Between Safeguard and Attack -- II. Mathematical Foundations -- Standard Notation -- 3. Probability and Information Theory -- 4. Computational Complexity -- 5. Algebraic Foundations -- 6. Number Theory -- III. Basic Cryptographic Techniques -- 7. Encryption - Symmetric Techniques -- 8. Encryption - Asymmetric Techniques -- 9. In an Ideal World: Bit Security of the Basic Public-Key Cryptographic Functions -- 10. Data Integrity Techniques -- IV. Authentication -- 11. Authentication Protocols - Principles -- 12. Authentication Protocols - The Real World -- 13. Authentication Framework for Public-Key Cryptography -- V. Formal Approaches to Security Establishment -- 14. Formal and Strong Security Definitions for Public-Key Cryptosystems -- 15. Provably Secure and Efficient Public-Key Cryptosystems -- 16. Strong and Provable Security for Digital Signatures -- 17. Formal Methods for Authentication Protocols Analysis -- VI. Cryptographic Protocols -- 18. Zero-Knowledge Protocols -- 19. Returning to "Coin Flipping Over Telephone" -- 20. Afterremark.