Coding Theory and Cryptography : The Essentials

Coding theory: introduction to coding theory linear codes perfect and related codes cyclic linear codes BCH codes Reed-Solomon codes burst error-correcting codes convolutional codes Reed-Muller and Preparata codes. Cryptography: classicalcryptography topics in algebra and number theory public-key cryptography. Appendices: the Euclidean algorithm factorization of 1 + xn example of compact disc encoding solutions to selected exercises.