Sécurité informatique
Cours et exercices corrigés · 3e édition
A rigorous academic course on the foundations of security — cryptography, authentication, access control — with corrected exercises, from a team of well-known French and Swiss cryptographers.
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- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Vuibert
- Pages
- 384
- Edition
- 3e édition
- Language
- French
Read this if
University students and engineers who want the formal foundations: cryptographic primitives, protocols, authentication and access control, with worked exercises to test understanding. Oechslin (rainbow tables) and Junod give the crypto real weight.
Skip this if
Readers looking for practical pentesting, tooling or a gentle introduction. This is a courses-and-exercises textbook with mathematical rigour, not a hands-on hacking guide.
Key takeaways
- The strongest French-language treatment of the cryptographic and formal foundations of security, exercises included.
- Written by serious cryptographers — Oechslin literally invented rainbow tables — so the crypto is correct and deep, not hand-waved.
- Best used as a course companion; the corrected exercises are the real value over a pure narrative text.
Notes
The academic backbone for the theory side of security in French. Pair it with an applied book if you also need to build or break systems; this one is about understanding why they're secure.
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