You can start by putting the DO NOT DISTURB sign. Cay, in Desert Hearts
(1985). The interplay between randomness and computation is one of the
most fas- cinating scientific phenomena uncovered in the last couple of
decades. This interplay is at the heart of modern cryptography and plays
a fundamental role in complexity theory at large. Specifically, the
interplay of randomness and computation is pivotal to several intriguing
notions of probabilistic proof systems and is the focal of the
computational approach to randomness. This book provides an introduction
to these three, somewhat interwoven domains (i.e., cryptography, proofs
and randomness). Modern Cryptography. Whereas classical cryptography was
confined to the art of designing and breaking encryption schemes (or
"secrecy codes"), Modern Cryptography is concerned with the rigorous
analysis of any system which should withstand malicious attempts to
abuse it. We emphasize two aspects of the transition from classical to
modern cryptography: ( 1) the wide- ning of scope from one specific task
to an utmost wide general class of tasks; and (2) the move from an
engineering-art which strives on ad-hoc tricks to a scientific
discipline based on rigorous approaches and techniques.