Foundations of Cryptography: Basic Tools
Oded Goldreich · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2000
From the Publisher: This book presents a rigorous and systematic treatment of the foundational issues of cryptography: defining cryptographic tasks and solving new cryptographic problems using existing tools. It focuses on the basic mathematical tools: computational difficulty (one-way functions), pseudorandomness and zero-knowledge proofs. Rather than describing ad?hoc approaches, this book emphasizes the clarification of fundamental concepts and the demonstration of the feasibility of solving cryptographic problems.