num_pages: 198
description: This book is an introduction to the algorithmic aspects of number theory and its applications to cryptography, with special emphasis on the RSA cryptosys-tem. It covers many of the familiar topics of elementary number theory, all with an algorithmic twist. The text also includes many interesting historical notes.
language: English
title: The Mathematics of Ciphers: Number Theory and RSA Cryptography
publisher: A K Peters/CRC Press