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.