Security of Block Ciphers

Preface

The main purpose of this book is to offer a fundamental understanding of security and its implementation of block ciphers. Nowadays, research fields in computer science and engineering have a vast scope and cryptology deals with various topics in information security. In order to understand the cutting-edge technology and science that underlies cryptology, block cipher is one of the best-suited targets both from theoretical and practical points of view. In order to offer the learning materials to fill the gap between theory and practice of the security of block ciphers, our focus goes to cryptanalysis, side-channel analysis, and fault analysis against block ciphers rather than covering all the security issues of block ciphers. AES is currently one of the most researched block ciphers in academia and widely used both in government and in commerce. Considering this fact, the explanations in this book are mainly oriented to the security of AES. In addition, AES is one of the best choices to build up all the discussions from algorithm design to hardware implementation, which is very helpful for readers to follow and to understand the basic ideas that can apply to other block ciphers.

Book Organization

This book is intended as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate students to have a big picture understanding of block ciphers from algorithm to implementations. The contents also include essential knowledge that is useful for cryptographers who are not familiar with hardware, ...