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A cryptography primer : secrets and promises

Klein, Philip N., author

Overview

\"Cryptography has been employed in war and diplomacy from the time of Julius Caesar. In our Internet age, cryptography's most widespread application may be for commerce, from protecting the security of electronic transfers to guarding communication from industrial espionage. This accessible introduction for undergraduates explains the cryptographic protocols for achieving privacy of communication and the use of digital signatures for certifying the validity, integrity, and origin of a message, document, or program. Rather than offering a how-to on configuring web browsers and e-mail programs, the author provides a guide to the principles and elementary mathematics underlying modern cryptography, giving readers a look under the hood for security techniques and the reasons they are thought to be secure\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Computer security. / Data encryption (Computer science) / Digital signatures. / Telecommunication Safety measures. / COMPUTERS / Security / Cryptography.
• ISBN: 9781107017887, 1107017882, 9781107603455, 1107603455

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
QA76.9.A25 K557 2014	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE