Implementing cryptography using Python
Learn to deploy proven cryptographic tools in your applications and services Cryptography is, quite simply, what makes security and privacy in the digital world possible. Tech professionals, including programmers, IT admins, and security analysts, need to understand how cryptography works to protect...
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| Language: | English |
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Indianapolis
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2020
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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