Information-theoretic Cryptography

Himanshu Tyagi is an associate professor with the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. A specialist in information theory, his current research focuses on blockchains for crowdsourced networks, distributed statistics under information constraints, and privacy for federated learning data pipelines. He has served as an associate editor for the 'IEEE Transactions on Information Theory' and has been awarded the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Young Scientist medal for 2020. Shun Watanabe is an associate professor with the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. His research focuses on the intersection of information theory and cryptography. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and served as an associate editor of the journal 'IEEE Transactions on Information Theory' from 2016 to 2020.

• 1. Introduction; Part I. External Adversary: Encryption, Authentication, Secret Key: 2. Basic information theory; 3. Secret keys and encryption; 4. Universal hash families; 5. Hypothesis testing; 6. Information reconciliation; 7. Random number generation; 8. Authentication; 9. Computationally secure encryption and authentication; 10. Secret key agreement; Part II. Internal Adversary: Secure Computation: 11. Secret sharing; 12. Two-party secure computation for passive adversary; 13. Oblivious transfer from correlated randomness; 14. Bit commitment from correlated randomness; 15. Active adversary and composable security; 16. Zero-knowledge proof; 17. Two-party secure computation for active adversary; 18. Broadcast, Byzantine agreement, and digital signature; 19. Multiparty secure computation; Appendix. Solutions to selected problems; References; Notation index; Subject index.

'This is a unique and extraordinary book covering everything on information-theoretic cryptography. It's a must-read book for all researchers and students interested in unconditional security.' Hirosuke Yamamoto, The University of Tokyo