Applied Cryptanalysis: Breaking Ciphers in the Real World

Detailed case studies of specific ciphers and attacks establish a solid foundation for understanding classes of practical attacks that have been developed against all types of cryptographic systems.  

Key chapters focus on RSA timing attacks and hash function MD5 in an understandable presentation. Two particular attacks of note are timing attacks and RSA (which is known as the gold standard in public key crypotography)  and the attack on MD5 which was considered significant upon its appearance in 2004 because MD5 is so widely used.