Cryptography Theory and Practice, Third Edition

last modified January 19, 2006

The third edition of this cryptography textbook by Doug Stinson was published in November, 2005, by CRC Press, Inc. Click here to see the publisher's web page for the book.

The third edition is an expanded version of the second edition, all in one volume. (I discarded the idea of a two-volume set mainly so the price would be as low as possible.)

Cover Design

You can view the cover design in pdf; click here.
The drawing in the lower right portion of the front cover is by Ron Shuebrook, "Untitled (Monkey Rope Series)", 2003 (Charcoal on paper, 19 3/4" x 25 1/2").

Chapters

The chapters in the third edition are as follows:

Chapter 1: Classical Cryptography
Chapter 2: Shannon's Theory
Chapter 3: Block Ciphers and the Advanced Encryption Standard
Chapter 4: Cryptographic Hash Functions
Chapter 5: The RSA Cryptosystem and Factoring Integers
Chapter 6: Public-key Cryptography andDicrete Logarithms
Chapter 7: Signature Schemes
Chapter 8: Pseudo-random Number Generation
Chapter 9: Identification Schemes and Entity Authentication
Chapter 10: Key Distribution
Chapter 11: Key Agreement Schemes
Chapter 12: Public-Key Infrastructure
Chapter 13: Secret Sharing Schemes
Chapter 14: Multicast Security and Copyright Protection

The third edition consists of updated versions of the seven chapters in the second edition plus seven additional chapters. Several of these seven additional chapters are updated versions of chapters from the first edition, and some are new.

Errata

An errata list is available. Please email errata and typos to me so I can include them on the list.