Daniel J. Bernstein Knihy

Quantum computers will break today's most popular public-key cryptographic systems, including RSA, DSA, and ECDSA. This book introduces the reader to the next generation of cryptographic algorithms, the systems that resist quantum-computer in particular, post-quantum public-key encryption systems and post-quantum public-key signature systems. Leading experts have joined forces for the first time to explain the state of the art in quantum computing, hash-based cryptography, code-based cryptography, lattice-based cryptography, and multivariate cryptography. Mathematical foundations and implementation issues are included. This book is an essential resource for students and researchers who want to contribute to the field of post-quantum cryptography.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Cryptology in Africa, AFRICACRYPT 2010, held in Stellenbosch, South Africa, on May 3-6, 2010. The 25 papers presented together with three invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. The topics covered are signatures, attacks, protocols, networks, elliptic curves, side-channel attacks and fault attacks, public-key encryption, keys and PUFs, and ciphers and hash functions.