"This book discusses the challenges of providing security for online applications and transactions, highlighting research on digital signatures, public key infrastructure, encryption algorithms, and digital certificates, as well as other e-commerce protocols"--

Discusses the evolution and current trends in cryptology, and offers new insight into how to use strategic algorithms to aid in solving intricate difficulties within this domain. This volume features topics such as hash functions, homomorphic encryption schemes, two party computation, and integer factoring,.