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Cryptography Engineering

Cryptography Engineering

By : Niels Ferguson‚ÄØ, Tadayoshi Kohno, Bruce Schneier
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Cryptography Engineering

Cryptography Engineering

By: Niels Ferguson‚ÄØ, Tadayoshi Kohno, Bruce Schneier

Overview of this book

Cryptography is vital to keeping information safe, in an era when the formula to do so becomes more and more challenging. Written by a team of world-renowned cryptography experts, this essential guide is the definitive introduction to all major areas of cryptography: message security, key negotiation, and key management. You'll learn how to think like a cryptographer. You'll discover techniques for building cryptography into products from the start and you'll examine the many technical changes in the field. After a basic overview of cryptography and what it means today, this indispensable resource covers such topics as block ciphers, block modes, hash functions, encryption modes, message authentication codes, implementation issues, negotiation protocols, and more. Helpful examples and hands-on exercises enhance your understanding of the multi-faceted field of cryptography.
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Chapter 3
Block Ciphers

Block ciphers are one of the fundamental building blocks for cryptographic systems. There is a lot of literature on block ciphers, and they are among the best-understood parts of cryptography. They are, however, building blocks. For most applications, you probably don't want to use a block cipher directly. Instead, you'll want to use a block cipher in what is called a “mode of operation,” which we'll discuss in subsequent chapters. This chapter is designed to give you a firmer understanding of block ciphers: what they are, how cryptographers view them, and how to choose between different options.

3.1 What Is a Block Cipher?

A block cipher is an encryption function for fixed-size blocks of data. The current generation of block ciphers has a block size of 128 bits (16 bytes). These block ciphers encrypt a 128-bit plaintext and generate a 128-bit ciphertext as the result. The block cipher is reversible; there is a decryption function...

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