Learning and Experiencing Cryptography with CrypTool and SageMath (Artech House Computer Security) - Hardcover

Bernhard Esslinger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1685690173 ISBN 13: 9781685690175

Publisher: Artech House, 2023

Synopsis

This book provides a broad overview of cryptography and enables cryptography for trying out. It emphasizes the connections between theory and practice, focuses on RSA for introducing number theory and PKI, and links the theory to the most current recommendations from NIST and BSI. The book also enables readers to directly try out the results with existing tools available as open source. It is different from all existing books because it shows very concretely how to execute many procedures with different tools. The target group could be self-learners, pupils and students, but also developers and users in companies. All code written with these open-source tools is available. The appendix describes in detail how to use these tools. The main chapters are independent from one another. At the end of most chapters, you will find references and web links. The sections have been enriched with many footnotes. Within the footnotes you can see where the described functions can be called and tried within the different CrypTool versions, within SageMath or within OpenSSL.

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About the Author

Bernhard Esslinger worked for SAP in various positions in Germany and the United States until 1998. The listed German software company with headquarters in Walldorf (Baden) produces business software. Bernhard Esslinger headed the development department for all security components of the SAP R/3 system, an information system and at the same time SAP's main product line, with which all business-relevant areas of a company can be viewed in context. He was also SAP 's global Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). From 1998 he worked for Deutsche Bank as global head of information security (Head IT Security) in the Corporate Center there and later as head of the competence center for cryptography. In 2013 he left Deutsche Bank. Since 2008 he has been an honorary professor for business informatics and researches and teaches at Faculty III for economics, business informatics and business law at the University of Siegen. CrypTool has been developed under his leadership since 1998. With this, many concepts of classic and modern cryptography can be grasped in a playful way and corresponding methods of cryptanalysis can be understood. The software has been continuously expanded for more than twenty years and is freely available.

Edition details

• Publisher: Artech House
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1685690173
• ISBN 13: 9781685690175
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 420