Information and Communication Security
Subtitle: Second International Conference, ICICS'99 Sydney, Australia, November 9-11, 1999 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Contributors: Vijay Varadharajan (Editor); Yi Mu (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: November 23, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9783540666820
Subjects: Data security & data encryption; Privacy & data protection; Programming - General; Computers; Security - General; Algorithms (Computer Programming); Computer Data Security; Computers - Computer Security; Networking - General; Computer Books: Operating Systems; Congresses; Computer Science; Computers / Security; Computers-Computer Science; Computers-Networking - General; Security measures; Security; Telecommunication systems; Computer security
First sentence: In an attempt to design cryptosystems based upon (believed) intractible problems different from factoring and discrete logarithms, several public-key cryptosystems have been presented, including the two systems in [M78, AD97].
Description: ICICS’99, the Second International Conference on Information and C- munication Security, was held in Sydney, Australia, 9-11 November 1999. The conference was sponsored by the Distributed System and Network Security - search Unit, University of Western Sydney, Nepean, the Australian Computer Society, IEEE Computer Chapter (NSW), and Harvey World Travel. I am g- teful to all these organizations for their support of the conference. The conference brought together researchers, designers, implementors and users of information security systems and technologies. A range of aspects was addressed from security theory and modeling to system and protocol designs and implementations to applications and management. The conference con- sted of a series of refereed technical papers and invited technical presentations. The program committee invited two distinguished key note speakers. The ?rst keynote speech by Doug McGowan, a Senior Manager from Hewlett-Packard, USA, discussed cryptography in an international setting. Doug described the current status of international cryptography and explored possible future trends and new technologies. The second keynote speech was delivered by Sushil Ja- dia of George Mason University, USA. Sushil’s talk addressed the protection of critical information systems. He discussed issues and methods for survivability of systems under malicious attacks and proposed a fault-tolerance based - proach. The conference also hosted a panel on the currently much debated topic of Internet censorship. The panel addressed the issue of censorship from various viewpoints namely legal, industrial, governmental and technical.