Book Description

Annotation Forty-four papers from the December 2000 conference address challenges in the field of information security. The main areas of discussion are intrusion detection, security policy, public key infrastructure, access control, security architecture, e-commerce, and cryptography. Topics include extending Java for package-based access control, policy mediation for multi-enterprise environments, binding identities and attributes using digitally signed certificates, using operating system wrappers to increase the resiliency to commercial firewalls, calculating costs for quality of security service, and the Chinese Remainder Theorem and its application in a high-speed RSA crypto chip. No subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.