Synopses & Reviews
A rigorous treatment of Encryption, Signatures, and General Cryptographic Protocols, emphasizing fundamental concepts.
Review
"...highly recommended." Cryptologia
Synopsis
Building on the basic tools presented in the first volume, this second volume of Foundations of Cryptography contains a rigorous and systematic treatment of three basic applications: Encryption, Signatures, and General Cryptographic Protocols. It is suitable for use in a graduate course on cryptography and as a reference book for experts.
About the Author
Oded Goldreich is Professor of Computer Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science and incumbent of the Meyer W. Weisgal Professorial Chair. An active researcher, he has written numerous papers on cryptography and is widely considered to be one of the world experts in the area. He is an editor of Journal of Cryptology and SIAM Journal on Computing and the author of Modern Cryptography, Probabilistic Proofs and Pseudorandomness.