“ Post - Quantum Cryptography ”

1 Summary of the review In this review I present the book " Post-Quantum Cryptography ". This volume gives a detailed, technical-level treatment of the post-quantum cryptography universe. 2 Summary of the book When (if?) quantum computers of a big enough size will be available, most of the current public-key cryptography primitives based on number theory will be vulnerable. The " next generation " of cryptographic algorithms is commonly grouped into what is called Post-Quantum Cryptography. This is mainly divided in four areas: hash-based cryptography, code-based cryptography, lattice-based cryptography and multivariate cryptography. In this book, the editors put together the leading experts in the four areas to present the state of the art in each of the four incarnations of this exciting new research area. The main part of the book is, as expected, formed by four chapters, one for each of the areas mentioned above. In addition, the book features an introduction section and a preliminary chapter on Quantum Computing.