The aim of this text is to treat selected topics of the subject of contemporary cryptology, structured in five quite independent but related themes: - efficient distributed computation modulo a shared secret - multiparty computation - foundations of modern cryptography - provable security for public key schemes - efficient and secure public-key cryptosystems.
Dario Catalano Ronald Cramer Ivan Damgård Giovanni Di Crescenzo David Pointcheval Tsuyoshi Takagi Contemporary Cryptology Birkhäuser Verlag Basel • Boston • Berlin Authors: Dario Catalano Laboratoire d'Informatique Ecole Normale Supérieure 45, rue d'Ulm 75230 Paris Cedex 05, France e-mail:
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