July 2024
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
7h 54m
English

The guarantees and powers of cryptographic algorithms often sound like magic. A layperson isn’t able to verify any of these properties and neither are most engineers. In some cases, even cryptographers can’t prove the security of a scheme, but they assume or believe that the underlying mathematical problem is hard to solve. Nevertheless, cryptographic algorithms are necessary tools that every developer and architect should know how to use.
The word cryptography comes from the combination of the Greek words kryptós and gráphein, which translate to secret writing. Nowadays, however, cryptography is much more than the protection of ...
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