Cryptography and Network Security

The book contains: Concepts of Security: The need for security, Security Approaches, Principles of Security, Types of Attacks. Cryptographic Techniques: Plain Text and Cipher Text, Substitution Techniques, Transposition Techniques, Encryption and Decryption, Symmetric and Asymmetric Key Cryptography, Steganography, Key Range and Key Size, Possible Types of Attacks. Computer-based Symmetric Key Cryptographic Algorithms: Algorithm Types and Modes, An overview of Symmetric Key Cryptography, DES, International Data Encryption Algorithm (IDEA), RC5, Blowfish, AES, Differential and Linear Cryptanalysis. Computer-based Asymmetric Key Cryptography: Brief History of Asymmetric Key Cryptography, An overview of Asymmetric Key Cryptography, The RSA Algorithm, Symmetric and Asymmetric Key Cryptography Together, Digital Signatures, Knapsack Algorithm, Some other Algorithms.