 | Gildas Avoine is postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before joining the MIT,he received a Bachelors degree in mathematics and a Master's degree in computer science, both from the University of Caen (France); and a Ph.D. degree in cryptography from the Swiss Federal Institute of Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland.

|  |  | | This work is a novel addition to the literature in that it provides, for each subject, a short summary of the main principles followed by a series of exercises, resulting in a self-contained book that provides a solid foundation in computer security to students. |
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