Cryptography Theory and Practice

last modified March 27, 2000

This is the (old) web page for the first edition of the book. A second edition has now been published, and its web page is here.

This cryptography textbook by Doug Stinson was published in March, 1995, by CRC Press, Inc
It was reprinted with corrections in late 1996: click here

This home page contains the following sections:

The Fourth Printing
Table of Contents
Translations
Reviews
Solutions to Some Exercises
Ciphertext for Selected Exercises [March 23, 1999]
Errata List (printings 1, 2, and 3) [October 1, 1996]
Errata List (fourth and later printings) [March 18, 1999]
Supplementary Material

The Fourth Printing

At the end of Novermber, 1996, the book was reprinted with corrections. This is the fourth printing of the book. (You can check which printing of the book you have by looking at the second last line of the back of the cover page. The first number in the sequence specifies the printing. For example, the fourth printing looks like 4 5 6 7 8 9 0.)

The following are the (only) changes in the fourth pringing:

All errors in the Errata List have been corrected.
The "Further Reading" section has been updated. Several new books are now referenced, and IACR conference proceedings are included through CRYPTO '96.
Several exercises have been changed, mainly to correct bad wording and/or typographical errors. The exercises that have been changed are the following: 1.4, 3.3(d), 3.8 (Figure 3.16), 4.8(b), 4.11, 4.13, 5.9, 6.6, 11.3, and 12.5.

Table of Contents

You can view the Table of Contents of the book.

Translations

Cryptography Theory and Practice has been translated into French by Serge Vaudenay. It is entitled Cryptography Théorie et Pratique and was published by International Thomson Publishing France, 1996.

The book has also been translated into Japanese by Kouichi Sakurai.

Reviews

There are now several reviews of the book.

The Cryptology Column, SIGACT News, vol. 28, #2, (1995), pp. 18-20; review by Gilles Brassard

Cryptologia, vol. 20 (1996), pp. 14-15; review by Louis Kruh

Computer and Communications Security Reviews, vol. 4, No. 3 (1995), p. 48

Mathematical Reviews, November 1996, MR 96k:94015; review by Yvo Desmedt

Cipher, Electronic Issue (EI) #18, November 11 1996, on-line review by Bob Bruen

Solutions to Some Exercises

Answers to some of the exercises can be found here.

Ciphertext for Selected Exercises

Ciphertext for some of the exercises can be found here.

Errata List (Printings 1, 2, and 3)

I have constructed an errata list, which can be found here .

Errata List (Fourth and later printings)

I have constructed an errata list for the fourth and later printings, which can be found here .

Supplementary Material

Here are some supplementary notes on specific topics, stored in the form of postscript files:

I also maintain bibliographies on research papers in two areas of cryptography: secret sharing schemes and authentication codes.

Doug Stinson's Address

Department of Combinatorics and Optimization
University of Waterloo
Waterloo Ontario, N2L 3G1
Canada

Telephone: (519) 888-4567, ext. 5590
Fax: (519) 725-5441

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