Providing Sound Foundations for Cryptography: On the Work of Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali
Providing Sound Foundations for Cryptography: On the Work of Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali
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为密码学提供坚实的基础：Shafi Goldwasser 和 Silvio Micali 的工作
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2019
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Oded Goldreich
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Oded Goldreich
密码学关注的是构造能够承受任何滥用的方案。密码方案被构造为即使在旨在使其偏离其规定行为的恶意尝试下也能保持期望的功能。密码系统的设计必须建立在坚实的基础上，而特别的方法和密码学是一条非常危险的道路。这些基础主要是在20世纪80年代发展起来的，都是由Shafi Goldwasser和/或Silvio Micali共同创作的作品。这些工作将密码学从一个缺乏坚实理论基础的工程学科转变为一个拥有坚实理论基础的科学领域，这影响了实践并有助于理论计算机科学的其他领域。
这本书庆祝这些作品，这是2012年上午图灵奖授予沙菲·戈德瓦瑟和西尔维奥·米卡利的基础。这本书的一个重要部分转载了这些作品中的一些，另一部分由他们以前的一些学生的科学观点组成。这本书的亮点是由几个章节提供的，让读者亲自会见沙菲和西尔维奥。这些包括对他们的采访，他们的传记和图灵奖讲座。
Cryptography is concerned with the construction of schemes that withstand any abuse. A cryptographic scheme is constructed so as to maintain a desired functionality, even under malicious attempts aimed at making it deviate from its prescribed behavior. The design of cryptographic systems must be based on firm foundations, whereas ad hoc approaches and heuristics are a very dangerous way to go. These foundations were developed mostly in the 1980s, in works that are all co-authored by Shafi Goldwasser and/or Silvio Micali. These works have transformed cryptography from an engineering discipline, lacking sound theoretical foundations, into a scientific field possessing a well-founded theory, which influences practice as well as contributes to other areas of theoretical computer science.
This book celebrates these works, which were the basis for bestowing the 2012 A.M. Turing Award upon Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali. A significant portion of this book reproduces some of these works, and another portion consists of scientific perspectives by some of their former students. The highlight of the book is provided by a few chapters that allow the readers to meet Shafi and Silvio in person. These include interviews with them, their biographies and their Turing Award lectures.