serious cryptography by jean philippe aumasson

The first section is based around fundamentals, where Aumasson effectively presents the key concepts underpinning the rest of the book, including Encryption, Randomness and Cryptographic Security. Despite this, each chapter within the sections are largely independent of one another, excluding chapter nine which provides the fundamentals to the subsequent three chapters. Green from Johns Hopkins University, who discusses the problems practitioners face when entering the field of applied cryptography and how this guide is an excellent study of modern encryption and its applications.Īumasson has loosely separated the book into four sections. Serious Cryptography begins with a foreword by Professor Matthew D. Despite this, Serious Cryptography can be easily picked up by anyone who has a reasonable understanding of mathematical concepts and computer science. While a quick scan of the opening pages may be daunting to the uninitiated, Serious Cryptography is written for developers who may have been exposed to cryptography, but still had unanswered questions or concepts that were still unclear.

This guide not only provides the fundamental mathematical concepts underpinning modern cryptography, but includes an up to date discussion on cryptographic engineering. Serious Cryptography – A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption written by Jean-Philippe Aumasson, is an incredibly detailed and practical guide to modern encryption, written by one of the foremost authorities in applied cryptography and co-designers of the BLAKE2 hash function.

Serious cryptography by jean philippe aumasson