Researchers Tout Functional Encryption That Knows Who's Who
Researchers are touting an innovative cryptography method they've developed called "functional encryption," which though largely untested in the real world, one day could have an impact on how enterprise data is encrypted, stored and ... [... more]
CIO |
How to Use a Polybius Square
As a child I used to make up secret codes like you could find on the back of a cereal box or in a comic book. Little did I know that I was engaging in cryptography. One form of early cryptography is the Polybius Square. This can be useful to ... [... more]
eHow |
How to Make a Secret Code
If you love secrets, codes and detective work, then you might enjoy cryptography which is the science of codes. Become a cryptographist or spy and create your own language. Send secret codes that can only be understood by those you trust. Use ... [... more]
eHow |
Another crack in the SDMI wall
A team of researchers claims to have successfully hacked a digital music watermarking system. Oct. 22, 2000 / A coalition of cryptography and watermarking researchers from Princeton University, Xerox PARC and Rice University claims to have ... [... more]
Salon |
The Mojo solution
Forget Napster and Gnutella. Jim McCoy's Mojo Nation is the coolest file-trading service on the Net. Oct. 9, 2000 / Jim McCoy left Yahoo in May in search of a libertarian utopia. So McCoy went back to his old passions -- cryptography and digital ... [... more]
Salon |
An Introduction to Cryptography (Discrete Mathematical & ...
 enjoy and learn: Readers should not be turned away from this book due to the rigorous mathematical content. If one learns the mathematical background (well developed in the text), then understanding of the cryptographic material becomes easier. Readers [... more]
$89.95
Amazon.com |
Simon Singh
The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem With these words, the seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat threw down the gauntlet to future ... [... more]
Random House |
Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short ...
covers the main ideas, with little maths needed: The book is good as befits its subtitle. Indeed, a very short introduction, with only a minimal evocation of maths background. But there is enough qualitative explanation so that you can understand the [... more]
$8.95
Amazon.com |
Algebraic Aspects of Cryptography (Algorithms and ...
Excellent, but only if you have extensive knowledge of math: The textbook is intended for students with extensive knowledge of number theory, field theory, and algebraic techniques. It is terse and runs through the material using the definition-lemma- [... more]
$119.00
Amazon.com |
Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short ...
covers the main ideas, with little maths needed: The book is good as befits its subtitle. Indeed, a very short introduction, with only a minimal evocation of maths background. But there is enough qualitative explanation so that you can understand the [... more]
$11.95
Amazon.com |
Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security
excellent coverage of crypto!: For the acutely interested reader, this encylopedia is well worth perusing from cover to cover. It is not that long that this is an arduous task. Nor is it that highly mathematical that you will take months doing so. The [... more]
$349.00
Amazon.com |
Introduction to Cryptography (Undergraduate Texts in ...
Good but Brief Book: Buchmann's text provides an excellect introduction to cryptography for those who are comfortable with mathematical rigour, and have some knowledge of number theory. Buchmann does provide a review for each of the number theoretic [... more]
$89.95
Amazon.com |
