Cryptology and Computational Number Theory

ISBN 10: 0821801554 / ISBN 13: 9780821801550

Published by Amer Mathematical Society, 1990

About this Item

CLEAN near fine 1990 hardcover.

Seller Inventory # 046559

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cryptology and Computational Number Theory
• Publisher: Amer Mathematical Society
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0821801554
• ISBN 13: 9780821801550
• Binding: Hardcover
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine

About this title

Synopsis

In the past dozen or so years, cryptology and computational number theory have become increasingly intertwined. Because the primary cryptologic application of number theory is the apparent intractability of certain computations, these two fields could part in the future and again go their separate ways. But for now, their union is continuing to bring ferment and rapid change in both subjects. This book contains the proceedings of an AMS Short Course in Cryptology and Computational Number Theory, held in August 1989 during the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boulder, Colorado. These eight papers by six of the top experts in the field will provide readers with a thorough introduction to some of the principal advances in cryptology and computational number theory over the past fifteen years. In addition to an extensive introductory article, the book contains articles on primality testing, discrete logarithms, integer factoring, knapsack cryptosystems, pseudorandom number generators, the theoretical underpinnings of cryptology, and other number theory-based cryptosystems. Requiring only background in elementary number theory, this book is aimed at nonexperts, including graduate students and advanced undergraduates in mathematics and computer science.

Synopsis

Six lectures from a short course held in Boulder, Colorado in August 1989, plus an additional essay, explore some of the cross-fertilization between the two ancient subjects of cryptology and computational number theory, though researchers already see that the relationship is destined to dissolve in a few years. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc.