Download or read book Symmetric Cryptographic Protocols written by Mahalingam Ramkumar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on protocols and constructions that make good use of the building blocks for symmetric cryptography. The book brings under one roof, several esoteric strategies of utilizing symmetric cryptographic blocks. The specific topics addressed by the book include various key distribution strategies for unicast, broadcast and multicast security and strategies for constructing efficient digests of dynamic databases using binary hash trees.