• 1 A Tutorial Introduction to Authentication and Key Establishment.- 2 Goals for Authentication and Key Establishment.- 3 Protocols Using Shared Key Cryptography.- 4 Authentication and Key Transport Using Public Key Cryptography.- 5 Key Agreement Protocols.- 6 Conference Key Protocols.- 7 Password-Based Protocols.- A Standards for Authentication and Key Establishment.- A.1 ISO Standards.- A.1.1 ISO/IEC 9798.- A.1.2 ISO/IEC 11770.- A.1.3 ISO 9594-8/ITU X.509.- A.2 Other Standards.- A.2.1 IETF Standards.- A.2.2 IEEE P1363-2000.- A.2.3 NIST and ANSI Standards.- B Summary of Notation.- References.- Index of Protocols.- General Index.

From the reviews: "This book is the first comprehensive treatment of protocols for authentication and key establishment. It allows researchers and practitioners to quickly access a protocol for their needs and become aware of existing protocols that have been broken in the literature. In addition to a clear and uniform presentation of the protocols, this book includes a description of all the main attack types ... . will prove useful both to those who wish to learn more about the field and as a reference ... ." (Nikolay Yakovlevich Tikhonenko, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1043 (18), 2004)