Providing Sound Foundations for Cryptography : On the Work of Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali.
Title:
Providing Sound Foundations for Cryptography : On the Work of Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali.
Author:
Goldreich, Oded.
ISBN:
9781450372695
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (838 pages)
Series:
ACM Bks
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Photo and Text Credits -- PART I. BIOGRAPHIES, INTERVIEWS, AND AWARD LECTURES -- 1. A Story Behind Every Problem: A Brief Biography of Shafi Goldwasser -- 2. One Obsession at a Time: A Brief Biography of Silvio Micali -- 3. An Interview with Shafi Goldwasser -- 4. An Interview with Silvio Micali -- 5. The Cryptographic Lens: Shafi Goldwasser'sTuring Lecture -- 6. Proofs, According to Silvio: Silvio Micali's Turing Lecture -- PART II. ORIGINAL PAPERS -- 7. Probabilistic Encryption -- 8. The Knowledge Complexity of Interactive Proof Systems -- 9. How to Generate Cryptographically Strong Sequences of Pseudorandom Bits -- 10. How to Construct Random Functions -- 11. A Digital Signature Scheme Secure Against Adaptive Chosen-Message Attacks -- 12. Proofs that Yield Nothing but Their Validity or All Languages in NP Have Zero-Knowledge Proof Systems -- 13. How to Play Any Mental Game: A Completeness Theorem for Protocols with Honest Majority -- 14. Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge (NIZK) Proof Systems -- 15. Completeness Theorems for Non-Cryptographic Fault-Tolerant Distributed Computation -- 16. Multi-Prover Interactive Proofs: How to Remove Intractability Assumptions -- PART III. PERSPECTIVES -- 17. On the Foundations of Cryptography -- 18. On the Impact of Cryptography on Complexity Theory -- 19. On Some Noncryptographic Works of Goldwasser and Micali -- 20. Fundamentals of Fully Homomorphic Encryption -- 21. Interactive Proofs for Lattice Problems -- 22. Following a Tangent of Proofs -- 23. A Tutorial on Concurrent Zero-Knowledge -- 24. Doubly Efficient Interactive Proofs -- 25. Computational Entropy -- 26. A Survey of Leakage-Resilient Cryptography -- Editor and Author Biographies -- Blank Page.
Abstract:
Cryptography is concerned with the construction of schemes that withstand any abuse. A cryptographic scheme is constructed so as to maintain a desired functionality, even under malicious attempts aimed at making it deviate from its prescribed behavior. The design of cryptographic systems must be based on firm foundations, whereas ad hoc approaches and heuristics are a very dangerous way to go. These foundations were developed mostly in the 1980s, in works that are all co-authored by Shafi Goldwasser and/or Silvio Micali. These works have transformed cryptography from an engineering discipline, lacking sound theoretical foundations, into a scientific field possessing a well-founded theory, which influences practice as well as contributes to other areas of theoretical computer science. This book celebrates these works, which were the basis for bestowing the 2012 A.M. Turing Award upon Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali. A significant portion of this book reproduces some of these works, and another portion consists of scientific perspectives by some of their former students. The highlight of the book is provided by a few chapters that allow the readers to meet Shafi and Silvio in person. These include interviews with them, their biographies and their Turing Award lectures.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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