Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
Subtitle: Second International Conference, FOSSACS'99, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: April 14, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9783540657194
Subjects: Software engineering; Theory Of Computing; Computers - Languages / Programming; Computer Logic; Computers; System analysis; Computer Books: General; Miscellaneous Software; Congresses; Artificial Intelligence - General; General; Computational Structures; Computers / Logic Design; Program Semantics; Program Specification; Programming Theory; Computer Science; Computer software
First sentence: The method of "security by obscurity" dictates that potential attackers to a system should be kept from knowing not only passwords and cryptographic keys but also basic information about how the system works, such as the specifications of cryptographic algorithms, communication protocols, and access-control mechanisms.