InTech, 2012. — 390 p.We live in an era of unimaginably rapidly advancing and amazing technologies that enable instantaneous flow of information – anytime, anywhere. The convergence of computers and networks has been the key force behind the development of these awesome technologies. Increasing use of systems which are built using advanced information technologies is having a profound impact on our everyday lives. These technologies are becoming all pervasive and ubiquitous.
With the exponential growth of wireless telecommunication and information technologies and the increasingly dominant roles played by electronic commerce in every major industry, safeguarding of information travelling over the communication networks is increasingly becoming one of the most important and contentious challenges for the technology innovators. The key prerequisite for the continued development and successful exploitation of information technology and other related industries is the notion of information assurance that includes operations for protecting and defending information and information systems by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication, non-repudiation and information confidentiality and privacy.
In this age of electronic connectivity, of viruses and hackers, of electronic eavesdropping and electronic fraud, network security has assumed increasing importance. Two trends are emerging very clearly in this regard. First, the explosive growth in computer systems and their interconnections via networks has increased the dependence of both organizations and individuals on the information stored and communicated using these systems. This, in turn, has led to a heightened awareness of the need to protect data and resources from disclosure, to guarantee the authenticity of data and messages, and to protect systems from network-based attacks. Second, the disciplines of cryptography and network security have matured, leading to the development of practical, readily available applications to enforce network security. Cryptography will continue to play lead roles in developing new security solutions which will be in great demand with the advent of high-speed next-generation communication systems and networks. New cryptographic algorithms, protocols and tools must follow up in order to adapt to the new communication and computing technologies. Computing systems and communication protocols like IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.15 are increasingly becoming targets of attacks since the underlying radio communication medium for wireless networks provides serious security loopholes. New security mechanisms should be designed to defend against the increasingly complex and sophisticated attacks launched on networks and web-based applications. In addition to classical cryptographic algorithms, new approaches like chaos-based cryptography, DNA-based cryptography and quantum cryptography will be play important roles.
The purpose of this book is to present some of the critical security challenges in today’s communication networks and computing and to provide insights to possible mechanisms to defend against attacks. With this objective, the book provides a collection of research work in the field of cryptography and network security by some experts in these areas. The book contains 16 chapters which are divided into three parts. The chapters in Part 1 of the book largely deal with security and privacy issues in computing and communication networks. The Part 2 includes chapters which are related to the field of quantum cryptography. The chapters dealing with the evolutionary concepts of cryptography and their applications like chaos-based cryptography and DNA cryptography are included in the Part 3 of the book. Security and Privacy in Computing and Communication Networks
Secure and Privacy-Preserving Authentication Protocols for Wireless Mesh Networks
Security from Location
Anonymous Authentication Protocols for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks: An Overview
Security Approaches for Information-Centric Networking
Secure Platform Over Wireless Sensor Networks
Privacy-Secure Digital Watermarking for Fair Content Trading
NLM-MAC: Lightweight Secure Data Communication Framework Using Authenticated Encryption in Wireless Sensor Networks 15
Key Establishment Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Quantum Cryptography
Quantum Cryptography
Quantum Key Management
Securing a Telecom Services Using Quantum Cryptographic Mechanisms
Evolutionary Concepts and Techniques in Security
Notions of Chaotic Cryptography: Sketch of a Chaos Based Cryptosystem
Chaotic Electronic Circuits in Cryptography
An En/Decryption Machine Based on Statistical Physics
Modern Technologies Used for Security of Software Applications
Research on DNA Cryptography
