24.8 Some Details on the Random Permutation
24.9 The Case Where Eve Has Nonzero Initial Information
24.10 Hash Functions Using Block Designs
24.11 Concluding Remarks
Note
Chapter 25: New Identities for the Shannon Function with Applications
25.1 Extensions of a Binary Symmetric Channel
25.2 A Basic Entropy Equality
25.3 The New Identities
25.4 Applications to Cryptography and a Shannon‐Type Limit
25.5 Problems
25.6 Solutions
Chapter 26: Blockchain and Bitcoin
26.1 Ledgers, Blockchains
26.2 Hash Functions, Cryptographic Hashes
26.3 Digital Signatures
26.4 Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies
26.5 The Append‐Only Network, Identities, Timestamp, Definition of a Bitcoin
26.6 The Bitcoin Blockchain and Merkle Roots
26.7 Mining, Proof‐of‐Work, Consensus
26.8 Thwarting Double Spending
Chapter 27: IoT, The Internet of Things
27.1 Introduction
27.2 Analog to Digital (A/D) Converters
27.3 Programmable Logic Controller
27.4 Embedded Operating Systems
27.5 Evolution, From SCADA to the Internet of Things
27.6 Everything is Fun and Games until Somebody Releases a Stuxnet
27.7 Securing the IoT, a Mammoth Task
27.8 Privacy and Security
Notes
Chapter 28: In the Cloud
28.1 Introduction
28.2 Distributed Systems
28.3 Cloud Storage – Availability and Copyset Replication
28.4 Homomorphic Encryption
28.5 Cybersecurity
28.6 Problems
28.7 Solutions
Chapter 29: Review Problems and Solutions
29.1 Problems
29.2 Solutions
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Appendix A
A.1 ASCII
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Appendix B
B.1 Shannon's Entropy Table
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Glossary
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References
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Index
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List of Tables
1 Chapter 2Table 2.1 Approximate frequencies of letters in the English language.Table 2.2 Number of character coincidences corresponding to displacement
2 Chapter 21Table 21.1 Factorization of
over 3 Chapter 24Table 24.1 Bit agreements between two remnant stringsTable 24.2 Expressions for
for Table 24.3 Expressions for for Table 24.4 Optimal values for Table 24.5 Reconciling two 400 bit keys 4 Appendix ATable A.1 ASCII table
5 Appendix BTable B.1 Shannon's entropy table.
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1 (a) Claude E. Shannon, Theseus, and the maze (see Section 1.4). (...
2 Chapter 2Figure 2.1 Caesar cipher wheel.Figure 2.2 The German Enigma machine. (a) the Enigma machine type‐K, (b) the...Figure 2.3 Block diagram of the Enigma machine.Figure 2.4 Simplified Enigma model.
3 Chapter 3Figure 3.1 General encryption.Figure 3.2 Symmetric encryption.Figure
