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English version 4.0 of the electronic book "Computer Security and Cryptography" has been released to the web server of the CriptoRed Thematic Network, by Dr. Jorge Ramió Aguirre, professor of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain. Spanish version March the 1st 2005, surpassed in one year 39,000 downloads from that Web server:
http://www.criptored.upm.es/
This freeware material includes the following documents:

DOCUMENTS ON WORD FORMAT:
- BookCover.doc: Title page of the book
- Readme.doc: Information about what´s in the book

DOCUMENT ON POWER POINT FORMAT:
- File: 01IntroduceCourse
Introduction to the course and electronic book v4.0
- File: 02BriefIntroCrypt
Brief and quick introduction to cryptography
- File: 03IntroCompSec
Introduction to Information Security
- File: 04QualityInfo
Information Quality and Viruses
- File: 05SecMangmnt
Introduction to Security Management
- File: 06TheoryInfo
Information Theory
- File: 07NumbersTheory
Numbers Theory
- File: 08AlgorihtmComp
Algorithmic Complexity Theory
- File: 09ClassicCipher
Classic Cipher Systems
- File: 10ModernCipher
Modern Cipher Systems
- File: 11StreamCipher
stream Cipher Systems
- File: 12SymmetricCipher
Symmetric Block Cipher
- File: 13KnapsackCipher
Asymmetric Knapsack Cipher
- File: 14AsymmetricCipher
Asymmetric Exponential Cipher
- File: 15HashFunctions
Hash Functions in Cryptography
- File: 16SignAuthenticat
Digital Signature and Authentication
- File: 17DigitalCertPKCS
Digital Certificates and PKCS Standard
- File: 18SecureMail
Secure Mail Applications
- File: 19CryptProtocols
Protocols and Cryptographic Eschemes
- File: 20EllipticCurves
Introduction to Elliptic Curves Cipher
Chapter by Dr. Josep Maria Miret Biosca, U. of Lleida, Spain
- File: 21BibSWTablesOthers
Bibliography, Links, Tables, Software and Documents

What is in CompSecCrip_v40.zip file:
- 2 pages on Word format
- 1,028 slides on Power Point format
- 276 proposed exercises
- 211 proposed practices

Free download of this book on the following URL:
http://www.criptored.upm.es/guiateoria/gt_m001a_en.htm
Besides, from that url you can download a 105 pages Word document about Classic Cryptography:

NEW! 4.1 version in Spanish dated March, the 1st in 2006 (1,106 slides):
http://www.criptored.upm.es/guiateoria/gt_m001a.htm

More electronic books:
http://www.criptored.upm.es/paginas/docencia.htm#librose

More information about the author:
http://www.lpsi.eui.upm.es/~jramio/