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Ango Gijutsu Nyumon, 3rd Edition (An Introduction to Cryptography)
Alice in the Land of Secrets
Hiroshi Yuki
Summary
A Japanese-language guide to cryptography by Hiroshi Yuki, explaining its building blocks — symmetric-key cryptography, public-key cryptography, digital signatures, PKI, PGP, and SSL/TLS — through diagrams and plain-language explanations. This third edition adds coverage of the SHA-3 competition and the SHA-3 (Keccak) construction, attacks on SSL/TLS such as POODLE, authenticated encryption, the relationship between Bitcoin and cryptography, and elliptic-curve cryptography.
Target Readers
- Engineers designing a TLS handshake or verifying token signatures, who need the symmetric-key, public-key, and signature mechanics underneath explained rather than treated as a black box
- Developers who meet PKI, PGP, and SSL/TLS in the systems they work on without a grasp of the cryptographic building blocks underneath
- Engineers updating earlier cryptography knowledge with this edition's additions — SHA-3, authenticated encryption, elliptic-curve cryptography, and attacks such as POODLE
Tags
Colophon
- Publisher
- SB Creative
- ISBN
- 978-4-7973-8222-8
- Published
- Aug 2015
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- ¥3,630incl. taxMay differ from the actual selling price on Amazon
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