Network security essentials :

Stallings, William.

Network security essentials : applications and standards / William Stallings. - 2nd ed. - Upper Saddle River, New Jersey : Prentice Hall, c2003. - xv, 409 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-387). and index.

The OSI Security Architecture -- Symmetric Encryption and Message Confidentiality -- Public-Key Cryptography and Message Authentication -- NETWORK SECURITY APPLICATIONS -- Authentication Applications -- Electronic Mail Security -- IP Security -- Web Security -- Network Management Security -- SYSTEM SECURITY -- INTRUDERS -- MALICIOUS SOFTWARE -- FIREWALLS.

This text provides a practical, up-to-date, and comprehensive survey of network-based and Internet-based security applications and standards. It includes a concise treatment of the discipline of cryptography, covering algorithms and protocols underlying network security applications, encryption, hash functions, digital signatures, and key exchange.

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Computer networks -- Security measures.

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