A Classical Introduction to Cryptography (Paperback)

This book introduces the fundamentals of information and communication security by providing appropriate mathematical concepts to prove or break the security of cryptographic schemes.

It covers conventional cryptographic primitives and cryptanalysis of these primitives; basic algebra and number theory for cryptologists; public key cryptography and cryptanalysis of these schemes; and other cryptographic protocols, e.g.

secret sharing, zero-knowledge proofs and undeniable signature schemes.