Enhancing Cryptographic Primitives With Techniques From Error Correcting Codes

The NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Enhancing Cryptographic Primitives with Techniques from Error Correcting Codes has been organized in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, on October 6-9, 2008. This title includes the papers based on the lectures of the invited speakers, and on the talks of the participants in the workshop.

A complete, accessible book on single and multiple output Boolean functions in cryptography and coding, with recent applications and problems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Computer and Information Sciences, MACIS 2019, held in Gebze, Turkey, in November 2019. The 22 revised papers and 14 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: algorithms and foundation; security and cryptography; combinatorics, codes, designs and graphs; data modeling and machine learning; tools and software track.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th IMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding, IMACC 2011, held in Oxford, UK in December 2011. The 27 revised full papers presented together with one invited contribution were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the field of mathematics and computer science, including coding theory, homomorphic encryption, symmetric and public key cryptosystems, cryptographic functions and protocols, efficient pairing and scalar multiplication implementation, knowledge proof, and security analysis.

This book is based on the invited talks of the "RICAM-Workshop on Finite Fields and Their Applications: Character Sums and Polynomials" held at the Federal Institute for Adult Education (BIfEB) in Strobl, Austria, from September 2-7, 2012. Finite fields play important roles in many application areas such as coding theory, cryptography, Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo methods, pseudorandom number generation, quantum computing, and wireless communication. In this book we will focus on sequences, character sums, and polynomials over finite fields in view of the above mentioned application areas: Chapters 1 and 2 deal with sequences mainly constructed via characters and analyzed using bounds on character sums. Chapters 3, 5, and 6 deal with polynomials over finite fields. Chapters 4 and 9 consider problems related to coding theory studied via finite geometry and additive combinatorics, respectively. Chapter 7 deals with quasirandom points in view of applications to numerical integration using quasi-Monte Carlo methods and simulation. Chapter 8 studies aspects of iterations of rational functions from which pseudorandom numbers for Monte Carlo methods can be derived. The goal of this book is giving an overview of several recent research directions as well as stimulating research in sequences and polynomials under the unified framework of character theory.

Offers a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentalstructures and applications of a wide range of contemporary codingoperations This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentalstructures and applications of a wide range of contemporary codingoperations. This text focuses on the ways to structure informationso that its transmission will be in the safest, quickest, and mostefficient and error-free manner possible. All coding operations arecovered in a single framework, with initial chapters addressingearly mathematical models and algorithmic developments which led tothe structure of code. After discussing the general foundations ofcode, chapters proceed to cover individual topics such as notionsof compression, cryptography, detection, and correction codes. Bothclassical coding theories and the most cutting-edge models areaddressed, along with helpful exercises of varying complexities toenhance comprehension. Explains how to structure coding information so that itstransmission is safe, error-free, efficient, and fast Includes a pseudo-code that readers may implement in theirpreferential programming language Features descriptive diagrams and illustrations, and almost 150exercises, with corrections, of varying complexity to enhancecomprehension Foundations of Coding: Compression, Encryption,Error-Correction is an invaluable resource for understandingthe various ways information is structured for its secure andreliable transmission in the 21st-century world.

The chapters in this open access book arise out of the EU Cost Action project Cryptacus, the objective of which was to improve and adapt existent cryptanalysis methodologies and tools to the ubiquitous computing framework. The cryptanalysis implemented lies along four axes: cryptographic models, cryptanalysis of building blocks, hardware and software security engineering, and security assessment of real-world systems. The authors are top-class researchers in security and cryptography, and the contributions are of value to researchers and practitioners in these domains. This book is open access under a CC BY license.

This book is a collection of papers devoted to the emergence and development in Bulgarian Academy of Sciences of some of the areas of informatics, including artificial intelligence. The papers are prepared by specialists from the Academy, some of whom are among the founders of these scientific and application areas in Bulgaria and in some cases – in the world. The book is interesting for specialists in informatics and computer science and researchers in history of sciences.