Algebraic aspects of the advanced encryption standard (Advances in Information Security)

摘要

Cryptography is important in a world where online booksellers and travel agents keep our credit card numbers on file, and the US government's selection of an advanced encryption standard made it clear that cryptography is no longer important only for covert operations. The choice of Rijndael was the result of a long process of public scrutiny. The authors of this book did not develop Rijndael, but have been heavily involved in its algebraic analysis. This analysis is a substantial contribution to the field; the book, however, is not. Only about 80 of the book's pages offer new material; the rest is filled with a chapter on mathematical background that is superfluous for those who might have any chance of understanding its content, tables of equations for ciphers useful in analyzing Rijndael, pages of sparse hexadecimal matrices, and a large but unselective bibliography.