NEW TO THE THIRD EDITION
• New chapters on
o Cyber Laws
o Vulnerabilities in TCP/IP Model
• Revised sections on
o Digital signature
o Attacks against digital signature
• Introduction to some open source tools like Nmap, Zenmap, port scanner, network scanner and wireshark
• Revised section on block cipher modes of operation
• Coverage of Simplified Data Encryption Standard (S-DES) and Simplified Advanced Encryption Standard (S-AES) with examples
• Elaborated section on Linear Cryptanalysis and Differential Cryptanalysis
• New solved problems and a topic “primitive roots” in number theory
• Chapter on public key cryptosystems with various attacks against RSA algorithm
• New topics on Ransomware, Darknet, and Darkweb as per the current academic requirement
• Revised chapter on Digital Forensics
The book is intended for the undergraduate and postgraduate students of computer science and engineering (B.Tech/M.Tech), undergraduate and postgraduate students of computer science (B.Sc. / M.Sc. Computer Science), and information technology (B.Sc. / M.Sc. IT) and the students of Master of Computer Applications (MCA).
V.K. PACHGHARE is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology, College of Engineering, Pune (An autonomous institute of Government of Maharashtra).
He has a teaching experience of 28 years. He has published the books on Cloud Computing and Computer Graphics and has over 37 research publications in various international journals and conferences. He is a member of Board of studies in Computer Engineering / Information Technology of a number of Autonomous Institutes. His area of research is network security and he is an Investigator for the Information Security Education and Awareness [ISEA] Project, Ministry of Information Technology, Govt. of India. He was a Principal Investigator for a research project "Wireless IDS", sponsored by AICTE, New Delhi. He delivered lectures on recent and state of the art topics in Computer Engineering and Information Technology as a guest speaker.