Lidong Chen is a mathematician in the Computer Security Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Guang Gong is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo in Ontario.
For mathematicians, both students and researchers, the book gives comprehensive information about practical aspects of cryptography. ... Each chapter is supplied with an appropriate number of exercises. They are well chosen to demonstrate and clarify the considered topics. A rich (but not excessively large) bibliography is given at the end of each chapter. This organization of the book is quite handy for the reader. -Nikolai L. Manev, Zentralblatt MATH 1263