In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Talkers who helped the Allies...
Randomization has become a standard approach in algorithm design. Efficiency
and simplicity are the main features of randomized algorithms that
often made randomization a miraculous springboard for solving complex problems
in various applications. Especially in the areas of communication, cryptography,
data management, and discrete...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2011, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA in August 2011. The 42 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 230 submissions. The volume also contains the abstract of one invited talk. The papers are organized...
This course is the official courseware for the Security Certified Program SC0-451
certification exam. The Tactical Perimeter Defense course is designed to provide
network administrators and certification candidates with hands-on tasks on the
most fundamental perimeter security technologies. The network perimeter is often
the first...
Using mathematical tools from number theory and finite fields, Applied Algebra: Codes, Ciphers, and Discrete Algorithms, Second Edition presents practical methods for solving problems in data security and data integrity. It is designed for an applied algebra course for students who have had prior classes in abstract or linear...
Steganography and steganalysis, the hiding and detection of a covert payload
within an innocent cover object, started to receive attention from the computer
science, engineering, and mathematics communities in the 1990s. At
first the problems were not clearly defined, but proper statistical foundations
were proposed and mathematical...
Currently the mobile wireless technology is experiencing rapid
growth. However the major challenge for deployment of this technology
with its special characteristics is securing the existing and future
vulnerabilities. Major security and privacy issues for standard wireless
networks include the authentication of wireless clients and...
Distributed with every copy of Python, the standard library contains hundreds of modules that provide tools for interacting with the operating system, interpreter, and Internet. All of them are tested and ready to be used to jump start the development of your applications. This book presents selected examples demonstrating how to use the most...
The 11th International Workshop on Information Security Applications (WISA
2010)was held on Jeju Island, Korea, during August 24–26, 2010. The workshop
was hosted by the Korea Institute of Information Security and Cryptology
(KIISC), supported by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
(ETRI) and the Korea...
This book is intended to provide students and professionals with a solid foundation in the
fundamentals of advanced network security. The previous edition of this book placed significant
emphasis on intrusion detection, but this edition aims to provide a more balanced approach to
the topic of network defense and countermeasures. As...
Have you ever wondered how your GPS can find the fastest way to your destination, selecting one route from seemingly countless possibilities in mere seconds? How your credit card account number is protected when you make a purchase over the Internet? The answer is algorithms. And how do these mathematical formulations translate themselves...
ASP.NET Web API is a key part of ASP.NET MVC 4 and the platform of choice for building RESTful services that can be accessed by a wide range of devices. Everything from JavaScript libraries to RIA plugins, RFID readers to smart phones can consume your services using platform-agnostic HTTP.
