Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- Contents at a Glance -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Cryptography and Python -- Exploring Algorithms -- Why Use Python? -- Downloading and Installing Python -- Installing on Ubuntu -- Installing on macOS -- Installing on Windows -- Installing on a Chromebook -- Installing Additional Packages -- Installing Pip, NumPy, and Matplotlib -- Installing the Cryptography Package -- Installing Additional Packages -- Testing Your Install -- Diving into Python Basics -- Using Variables

Using Strings -- Introducing Operators -- Understanding Arithmetic Operators -- Understanding Comparison Operators -- Understanding Logical Operators -- Understanding Assignment Operators -- Understanding Bitwise Operators -- Understanding Membership Operators -- Understanding Identity Operators -- Using Conditionals -- Using Loops -- for -- while -- continue -- break -- else -- Using Files -- Understanding Python Semantics -- Sequence Types -- Introducing Custom Functions -- Downloading Files Using Python -- Introducing Python Modules -- Creating a Reverse Cipher -- Summary

Chapter 2 Cryptographic Protocols and Perfect Secrecy -- The Study of Cryptology -- Understanding Cryptography -- Cryptography's Famous Family: Alice and Bob -- Diffie-Hellman -- Data Origin Authentication -- Entity Authentication -- Symmetric Algorithms -- Asymmetric Algorithms -- The Needham-Schroeder Protocols -- The Otway-Rees Protocol -- Kerberos -- Multiple-Domain Kerberos -- X.509 -- Formal Validation of Cryptographic Protocols -- Configuring Your First Cryptographic Library -- Understanding Cryptanalysis -- Brute-Force Attacks -- Side-Channel Attacks -- Social Engineering

Analytical Attacks -- Frequency Analysis -- Attack Models -- Shannon's Theorem -- One-Time Pad -- XOR, AND, and OR -- One-Time Pad Function -- One-Way Hashes -- Cryptographic One-Way Hashes -- Message Authentication Codes -- Perfect Forward Secrecy -- Published and Proprietary Encryption Algorithms -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 3 Classical Cryptography -- Password Best Practices -- Password Storage -- Hashing Passwords -- Salting Passwords -- Stretching Passwords -- Password Tools -- Obfuscating Data -- ASCII Encoding -- Base64 Encoding Text -- Binary Data -- Decoding -- Historical Ciphers

Scytale of Sparta -- Substitution Ciphers -- Caesar Cipher -- ROT-13 -- Atbash Cipher -- Vigenère Cipher -- Playfair -- Hill 2x2 -- Column Transposition -- Affine Cipher -- Summary -- Chapter 4 Cryptographic Math and Frequency Analysis -- Modular Arithmetic and the Greatest Common Devisor -- Prime Numbers -- Prime Number Theorem -- School Primality Test -- Fermat's Little Theorem -- Miller-Rabin Primality Test -- Generate Large Prime Numbers -- Basic Group Theory -- Orders of Elements -- Modular Inverses -- Fermat's Little Theorem to Find the Inverse -- Extending the GCD -- Euler's Theorem

Includes index.

John Wiley and Sons Wiley Frontlist Obook All English 2020