Table of Contents

Techniques; authentication and key distribution; access control - overview; packet filtering; circuit-level gateways; application-level gateways; firewall configurations; communication security - network access layer security protocols; Internet layer security protocols; transport layer security protocols; application layer security protocols; message security protocols.

About the Author

Rolf Oppliger is the founder and owner of eSECURITY Technologies (www.esecurity.ch) and also works for the Swiss Federal Strategy Unit for Information Technology (FSUIT). He is the author of and Secure Messaging with PGP and S/MIME (Artech House, 2001), Security Technologies for the World Wide Web (Artech House, 1999), Internet and Intranet Security (Artech House, 1998), and Authentication Systems for Secure Networks (Artech House, 1996),. Dr. Oppliger is the computer security series editor at Artech House. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Berne, Switzerland, and the Venia legendi in computer science from the University of Z?rich, Switzerland.