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Hi all, As you may
already know, I'm working on a text-book, to be published by Prentice Hall,
titled: Introduction to Secure Communication and Commerce Using Cryptography. Lectures
covering much of the material, and a fair number of draft chapters, are now available
online; see (link from) http://amir.beesites.co.il/book.html.
I've recently added to the site few more lectures (payments, voting, trust,…)
and the chapter on micropayments. Still a long way to go, but I think it may
already provide some value. You are
encouraged to use the presentations and draft-chapters from that site (you'll
find the chapters under `Notes` column). The material is copyrighted but you
can use it for personal use and study, and definitely encouraged to use to give
courses; please inform me of any non-personal use. My goal is to create a textbook which can be
used for introductory courses in cryptography, secure communication and secure
commerce & payments (for undergrads and graduates). I appreciate
your feedback and suggestions, in particular, please let me know if there are
other areas you think I should cover. Enclosed is
the current table of contents (most subject already contain lecture and/or
draft/partial chapters – others marked TBD): 1.
Introduction 2. Security
threats and requirements 3.
Principles of Modern Cryptography 4.
Cryptography I: encryption and randomness 5.
Cryptography II: Hashing and Message Authentication (MAC) 6.
Cryptography III: Public Key Cryptography 7.
Cryptography IV: distributed and proactive cryptography (and secret sharing)
[TBD] 8. PKI and
certificates 9. Secure
Communication I: network reliability and security (TCP/IP, firewalls,
tunneling, denial of service) 10. Secure
Communication II: Authentication, Authorization and Key Distribution 11. Secure
Communication III: IP layer security
(IPSec, IKE) 12. Secure
Communication IV: transport layer security – SSL, TLS, WTLS and WEP 13. Secure
XML 14.
Security, Trust and Reputation 15. Secure
e-Banking and accounts [TBD] 16. Secure
Payments I: overview, credit card payments, mobile payments 17. Secure
Payments II: micropayments, money transfer 18. Privacy
and anonymity: digital cash, anonymous communication [TBD] 19. Content
Protection and Security for Remote Code 20. Trusted
third party services – Notary, e-vault, secure agents [TBD] 21. Advanced
protocols – voting, gambling, … 22.
Conclusion and social/legal issues [TBD] Cheers,
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