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Number Theory for Computing, Hardback Book

Number Theory for Computing Hardback

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Modern cryptography depends heavily on number theory, with primality test­ ing, factoring, discrete logarithms (indices), and elliptic curves being perhaps the most prominent subject areas.

Since my own graduate study had empha­ sized probability theory, statistics, and real analysis, when I started work­ ing in cryptography around 1970, I found myself swimming in an unknown, murky sea.

I thus know from personal experience how inaccessible number theory can be to the uninitiated.

Thank you for your efforts to case the transition for a new generation of cryptographers.

Thank you also for helping Ralph Merkle receive the credit he deserves.

Diffie, Rivest, Shamir, Adleman and I had the good luck to get expedited review of our papers, so that they appeared before Merkle's seminal contribu­ tion.

Your noting his early submission date and referring to what has come to be called "Diffie-Hellman key exchange" as it should, "Diffie-Hellman-Merkle key exchange", is greatly appreciated.

It has been gratifying to see how cryptography and number theory have helped each other over the last twenty-five years. :'-Jumber theory has been the source of numerous clever ideas for implementing cryptographic systems and protocols while cryptography has been helpful in getting funding for this area which has sometimes been called "the queen of mathematics" because of its seeming lack of real world applications.

Little did they know! Stanford, 30 July 2001 Martin E. Hellman Preface to the Second Edition Number theory is an experimental science.

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