Cryptography - Buchanan, William J.

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Cryptography has proven to be one of the most contentious areas in modern society. For some it protects the rights of individuals to privacy and security, while for others it puts up barriers against the protection of our society. This book aims to develop a deep understanding of cryptography, and p

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Cryptography...

Biographie:
William (Bill) Buchanan is a Professor in the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University, and a Fellow of the BCS, and the IET, and a Principle Fellow of the HEA. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to cyber security. Bill recently received an Outstanding Contribution to Knowledge Exchange award at the Scottish Knowledge Exchange awards, and was the Cyber Evangelist of the Year in 2016. Currently he leads the Centre for Distributed Computing, Networks, and Security and The Cyber Academy (thecyberacademy.org). His research has led to three successful spin-out companies, and has developed a number of patents. He has been named as one of the Top 100 people for Technology in Scotland for every year since 2012, and was also included in the Future Scot Top 50 Scottish Tech People Who Are Changing The World....

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Cryptography has proven to be one of the most contentious areas in modern society. For some it protects the rights of individuals to privacy and security, while for others it puts up barriers against the protection of our society. This book aims to develop a deep understanding of cryptography, and provide a way of understanding how privacy, identity provision and integrity can be enhanced with the usage of encryption. The book has many novel features including: full provision of Web-based material on almost every topic covered provision of additional on-line material, such as videos, source code, and labs coverage of emerging areas such as Blockchain, Light-weight Cryptography and Zero-knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) Key areas covered include: Fundamentals of Encryption Public Key Encryption Symmetric Key Encryption Hashing Methods Key Exchange Methods Digital Certificates and Authentication Tunneling Crypto Cracking Light-weight Cryptography Blockchain Zero-knowledge Proofs This book provides extensive support through the associated website of: http://asecuritysite.com/encryption...