Symmetric Cryptographic Protocols, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014

This book focuses on protocols and constructions that make good use of the building blocks for symmetric cryptography. The book brings under one roof, several esoteric strategies of utilizing symmetric cryptographic blocks. The specific topics addressed by the book include various key distribution strategies for unicast, broadcast and multicast security and strategies for constructing efficient digests of dynamic databases using binary hash trees.

Introduction.- Some Useful Constructions.- Non-scalable Key Distribution Schemes.- MLS for Internet Security Protocols.- Scalable Key Distribution Schemes.- Scalable Extensions of Non-scalable Schemes.- Using PKPSs With Tamper-Responsive Modules.- Broadcast Authentication and Broadcast Encryption.- Authenticated Data Structures.- Universal Trusted Computing Bases.- Conclusions and References.

Dr. Ramkumar is an Associate Professor, at the Dept. of CSE, MSU since August 2009.