Everyday Cryptography

• Relevant but relatively timeless: Concentrates on fundamental principles and thus presents knowledge about a contemporary topic that will not rapidly date.
• Practical: Focuses on the issues that are of concern to users and practitioners, rather than theorists.
• Application-focused: Illustrates the fundamental principles through examples and case studies of everyday applications.
• Accessible: Presents a subject area that has a strong mathematical basis without requiring any mathematical background.
• Educational: Can be used as the basis of an educational course through the provision of structured learning outcomes, further reading and activities for each chapter.

Readership: Accessible enough for a general audience, this book is also suitable for information security practitioners and as a core text for a principles of cryptography course.

Keith M. Martin, Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London

Prof. Keith Martin is Director of the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London. An active member of the cryptographic research community, hem also has considerable experience in teaching cryptography to non-mathematical students, including industrial courses and young audiences. Since 2004 he has led the introductory cryptography module on Royal Holloway's pioneering MSc Information Security.

"On a page per page basis it actually represents great value, and should achieve a long shelf life as both textbook and good reference source In terms of a score; for students a 9.5, practitioners 8.5 and general interest readers 8.5, giving an overall average of 9/10. Overall, an excellent book." - Mike Rees MBCS CITP, The British Computer Society

1: Preface
2: Basic Principles
3: Historical Cryptosystems
4: Theoretical versus Practical Security
5: Symmetric Encryption
6: Public-Key Encryption
7: Data Integrity
8: Digital Signature Schemes
9: Entity Authentication
10: Cryptographic Protocols
11: Key Management
12: Public-Key Management
13: Cryptographic Applications
14: Closing Remarks
Mathematics Appendix