
Structured for the needs of professionals, as well as graduate level computer science students, this is the first reference to address the methodology, cryptographic and computational demands of a secure web. Using the author's observations of duality in two well-known cryptographic...

As a beginning graduate student, I recall being frustrated by a general lack of acces sible sources from which I could learn about (theoretical) cryptography. I remember wondering: why aren't there more books presenting the basics of cryptography at an introductory level? Jumping...