Integrity Primitives for Secure Information Systems: Final Report of Race Integrity Primitives Evaluation Ripe-Race 1040 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

This manual documents the outcome of the EC sponsored project RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation (R1040), RIPE. This project is a huge joint 350 man-month project conducted by 16 leading European security experts. This book offers expert advice to professionals seeking to secure information systems by applying up-to-date cryptographic techniques. The core of this volume is a detailed integrity primitives portfolio recommendation. Among the issues addressed are security services, integrity mechanisms, data origin authentication, entity authentication, access control, data integrity, non-repudiation, signatures, and key exchange. Introduction and background....Pages 1-7 Integrity concepts....Pages 9-22 Introduction to part III....Pages 23-30 MDC-4....Pages 31-67 RIPEMD....Pages 69-111 RIPE-MAC....Pages 113-143 IBC-hash....Pages 145-167 SKID....Pages 169-178 RSA....Pages 179-197 COMSET....Pages 199-211 RSA key generation....Pages 213-231 Implementation guidelines for arithmetic computation....Pages 233-239 This is a manual intended for those seeking to secure information systems by applying modern cryptography.