Introduction to Modern Cryptography

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Introduction to Modern CryptographyMihir Bellare1Phillip Rogaway2May 11, 20051Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA92093, USA. of Computer Science, Kemper Hall of Engineering, University of California at Davis,Davis, CA 95616, USA; and Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University,Chiang Mai, 50200 Thailand. rogaway2PrefaceThis is a set of class notes that we have been developing jointly for some years. We use them forcryptography courses that we teach at our respective institutions. Each time one of us teachesthe class, he takes the token and updates the notes a bit.

Modern cryptography addresses a wide range of problems. But the most basic problem remains the classical one of ensuring security of communication across an insecure medium. To describe it, let’s introduce the first two members of our cast of characters: our sender, S, and our receiver, R. (Sometimes people call these characters Alice, A ...

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