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This book contains a nice introduction to modern cryptography, with emphasis laid on the ciphers based on computational number theory. ... The reader learns to deal with large numbers in a computer and to analyze the complexity of the most basic algorithms. ... [T]he reader is not just confronted with a list of algorithms, but he/she is given the clues to assimilate the ideas behind the results ... . The book contains more than 200 interesting exercises that test the reader's understanding of the text. - Zentralblatt MATH, 1045 The book provides an excellent text concerning cryptanalysis. ... masterly and carefully written. As the proofs are given with full details ... I can recommend it also to students. - Monatshefte fur Mathematik

This book contains a nice introduction to modern cryptography, with emphasis laid on the ciphers based on computational number theory. The reader learns to deal with large numbers in a computer and to analyze the complexity of the most basic algorithms. [T]he reader is not just confronted with a list of algorithms, but he/she is given the clues to assimilate the ideas behind the results . The book contains more than 200 interesting exercises that test the reader's understanding of the text. - Zentralblatt MATH, 1045 The book provides an excellent text concerning cryptanalysis. masterly and carefully written. As the proofs are given with full details I can recommend it also to students. - Monatshefte fur Mathematik

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Samuel S. Wagstaff, Jr. is a professor at the Purdue University Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) in West Lafayette, Indiana.

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