Coding theory and cryptology

This volume contains papers presented at the fourth working conference on Communications and Multimedia Security (CMS'99), held in Leuven, Belgium from September 20-21, 1999.

CRYPTO is a conference devoted to all aspects of cryptologic research.

In this book about a hundred papers are presented.

Advanced Communications and Multimedia Security presents a state-of-the-art review of current perspectives as well as the latest developments in the area of communications and multimedia security.

Security and Privacy in the Age of Uncertainty covers issues related to security and privacy of information in a wide range of applications including: *Secure Networks and Distributed Systems; *Secure Multicast Communication and Secure Mobile Networks; *Intrusion Prevention and Detection; *Access Control Policies and Models; *Security Protocols; *Security and Control of IT in Society.

The book to which I was asked by the editors to write a foreword is an interesting collection of contributions.

Quality of Protection: Security Measurements and Metrics is an edited volume based on the Quality of Protection Workshop in Milano, Italy (September 2005).

The volume contains the papers presented at the fifth working conference on Communications and Multimedia Security (CMS 2001), held on May 21-22, 2001 at (and organized by) the GMD -German National Research Center for Information Technology GMD - Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute IPSI, in Darmstadt, Germany.

Our Internet-connected society increasingly relies on computers.

Software that covertly monitors user actions, also known as spyware, has become a first-level security threat due to its ubiquity and the difficulty of detecting and removing it.

Data mining has emerged as a significant technology for gaining knowledge from vast quantities of data.

Face recognition has been actively studied over the past decade and continues to be a big research challenge.

Hop Integrity in the Internet introduces a new security defense, hop integrity, that can be used against denial-of-service attacks in the Internet.

This is the first joint working conference between the IFIP Working Groups 11.

Digital forensics deals with the acquisition, preservation, examination, analysis and presentation of electronic evidence.

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Reliable human authentication schemes are of paramount importance in our highly networked society.

A timely reference that explores the topic more broadly than other books, thoroughly discussing wireless security issues from physical layer to application layer.

As organizations today are linking their systems across enterprise-wide networks and VPNs as well as increasing their exposure to customers, competitors, browsers and hackers on the Internet, it becomes increasingly imperative for Web professionals to be trained in techniques for effectively protecting their sites from internal and external threats.

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Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing for Wireless Communications is an edited volume with contributions by leading authorities in the subject of OFDM.

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Mythanksareduetothemanypeoplewhohaveassistedintheworkreported here and in the preparation of this book.

This monograph is the outgrowth of Stefan Axelson's PhD Dissertation at Chalmers University in Goteborg, Sweden.

This text is a light technical introduction to the three technical foundations for multimedia applications across the Internet: communications (principles, technologies and networking), compressive encoding of digital media, and Internet protocol and services.

An introductory course in Software Engineering remains one of the hardest subjects to teach.

Biometric user authentication techniques evoke an enormous interest by science, industry and society.

Access Control Systems: Security, Identity Management and Trust Models provides a thorough introduction to the foundations of programming systems security, delving into identity management, trust models, and the theory behind access control models.

As a beginning graduate student, I recall being frustrated by a general lack of acces sible sources from which I could learn about (theoretical) cryptography.

Database security is one of the classical topics in the research of information system security.

Communication Systems is as an introductory textbook, presenting Fourier transform, convolution, and definitions of autocorrelation and power spectral density.

Introduction The goal of this book is to introduce XML to a bioinformatics audience.

A Classical Introduction to Cryptography: Applications for Communications Security introduces fundamentals of information and communication security by providing appropriate mathematical concepts to prove or break the security of cryptographic schemes.

As e-learning increases in popularity and reach, more people are taking online courses and thus need to understand security issues relevant to this topic.

Multimedia Encryption and Watermarking presents a comprehensive survey of contemporary multimedia encryption and watermarking techniques, which enable a secure exchange of multimedia intellectual property.

The development of net-centric approaches for intelligence and national security applications has become a major concern in many areas such as defense, intelligence and national and international law enforcement agencies.

Information Processing and Security Systems is a collection of forty papers that were originally presented at an international multi-conference on Advanced Computer Systems (ACS) and Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (CISIM) held in Elk, Poland.

This study investigates the impacts and risk assessment of technology-ena- bled information (TET), v^hich are engaged in the process of discovering the opportunities and challenges presented by TEI to the new form of small medi- um enterprises (SME) business transactions: Technology Enable Information Small Medium Enterprises (TEISME).

Even in the age of ubiquitous computing, the importance of the Internet will not change and we still need to solve conventional security issues.

Computer Security in the 21st Century shares some of the emerging important research trends reflected in recent advances in computer security, including: security protocol design, secure peer-to-peer and ad hoc networks, multimedia security, and intrusion detection, defense and measurement.

Second International Workshop on Formal Aspects in Security and Trust is an essential reference for both academic and professional researchers in the field of security and trust.

Communications and Multimedia Security is an essential reference for both academic and professional researchers in the fields of Communications and Multimedia Security.

Certification and Security in Inter-Organizational E-Services presents the proceedings of CSES 2004 - the 2nd International Workshop on Certification and Security in Inter-Organizational E-Services held within IFIP WCC in August 2004 in Toulouse, France.

How can one trust computation taking place at a remote site, particularly if a party at that site might have motivation to subvert this trust?

Coding is a highly integral component of viable and efficient computer and data communications, yet the often heavy mathematics that form the basis of coding may prevent a serious and practical understanding of this important area.

Enhanced Methods in Computer Security, Biometric and Artificial Intelligence Systems contains over 30 contributions from leading European researchers showing the present state and future directions of computer science research.

Privacy, Security and Trust within the Context of Pervasive Computing is an edited volume based on a post workshop at the second international conference on Pervasive Computing.

Image and Video Encryption provides a unified overview of techniques for encryption of images and video data.

Intrusion Detection and Correlation: Challenges and Solutions presents intrusion detection systems (IDSs) and addresses the problem of managing and correlating the alerts produced.