Synopses & Reviews
Digital Signatures is the first comprehensive account of the theoretical principles and techniques used in the design of provably secure signature schemes. In addition to providing the reader with a better understanding of the security guarantees provided by digital signatures, the book also contains full descriptions and detailed proofs for essentially all known secure signature schemes in the cryptographic literature. A valuable reference for students, professors, and researchers, Digital Signature Schemes can be used for self-study, as a supplement to a course on theoretical cryptography, or as a textbook in a graduate-level seminar.
Review
From the reviews: "This book is a basic and fundamental reference for studying and understanding digital signature schemes and all aspects related to their security. This very interesting book has been written mainly for graduate students, but it should also prove useful for researchers and lecturers. ... Each chapter ends with a valuable section suggesting further reading on topics dealt with in that chapter." (Luis Hernández Encinas, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2011 i)
Synopsis
Digital signatures emerge naturally from public-key encryption, based on trapdoor permutations and the duality of the two primitives as noted as early as Diffie-Hellmans seminal work. Digital Signatures introduces new strategies (methodologies) for designing group-signatures based on traitor tracing schemes.Digital Signatures is structured to meet the needs of a professional audience, as well as graduate-level students in computer science.
Synopsis
As a beginning graduate student, I recall being frustrated by a general lack of acces sible sources from which I could learn about (theoretical) cryptography. I remember wondering: why aren t there more books presenting the basics of cryptography at an introductory level? Jumping ahead almost a decade later, as a faculty member my graduate students now ask me: what is the best resource for learning about (various topics in) cryptography? This monograph is intended to serve as an answer to these 1 questions at least with regard to digital signature schemes. Given the above motivation, this book has been written with a beginninggraduate student in mind: a student who is potentially interested in doing research in the ?eld of cryptography, and who has taken an introductory course on the subject, but is not sure where to turn next. Though intended primarily for that audience, I hope that advanced graduate students and researchers will ?nd the book useful as well. In addition to covering various constructions of digital signature schemes in a uni?ed framework, this text also serves as a compendium of various folklore results that are, perhaps, not as well known as they should be. This book could also serve as a textbook for a graduate seminar on advanced cryptography; in such a class, I expect the entire book could be covered at a leisurely pace in one semester with perhaps some time left over for excursions into related topics."
Synopsis
Structured for the needs of professionals, as well as graduate level computer science students, this is the first reference to address the methodology, cryptographic and computational demands of a secure web. Using the author's observations of duality in two well-known cryptographic 'primitives', Digital Signatures introduces new strategies and methodologies for designing provably secure group-signatures based on traitor tracing schemes.
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A valuable reference book for researchers and industry practitioners, Digital Signatures can also be used as a tutorial for self-study by advanced-level students in computer science, or as a textbook in a seminar on signature schemes. Preface written by Moti Yung.
Synopsis
This is the first comprehensive account of the theoretical principles and techniques used in the design of provably secure signature schemes. The book provides the reader with a better understanding of the security guarantees provided by digital signatures.
About the Author
Jonathan Katz is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland. Active in the cryptography research community, he has held visiting positions at UCLA, \'{E}cole Normale Sup\'{e}rieure, and IBM. He has given several introductory lectures on cryptography to general audiences in both industry and government, and is an author of the textbook "Introduction to Modern Cryptography".
Table of Contents
Part I Setting the Stage.- Digital Signatures: Background and Definitions.- Cryptographic Hardness Assumptions.- Part II Digital Signature Schemes without Random Oracles.- Constructions Based on General Assumptions.- Signature Schemes Based on the (Strong) RSA Assumption.- Constructions Based on Bilinear Maps.- Part III Digital Signature Schemes in the Random Oracle Model.- The Random Oracle Model.- Full-Domain Hash (and Related) Signature Schemes.- Signature Schemes from Identification Schemes.- References.- Index