Mathematical Cryptology for Computer Scientists and Mathematicians

The author includes not only information about the most important advances in the field of cryptology of the past decade-such as the Data Encryption Standard (DES), public-key cryptology, and the RSA algorithm-but also the research results of the last three years: the Shamir, the Lagarias-Odlyzko, and the Brickell attacks on the Knapsack methods; the new Knapsack method using Galois fields by Chor and Rivest; and the recent analysis by Kaliski, Rivest, and Sherman of group-theoretic properties of the Data Encryption Standard (DES).

A nice feature of this book is the inclusion of Pascal programs for a variety of cryptosystems....Patterson's book is easy to read and provides the best introduction to modern public key cryptosystems. (The American Mathematical Monthly)

...the first comprehensive exposition of developments within the past six years in the area of public key cryptosystems. (The American Mathematical Monthly)