[(Applied Cryptography and Network Security: 6th International Conference, ACNS 2008, New York, NY, USA, June 3-6, 2008, Proceedings )] [Author: Steven M. Bellovin] [Aug-2008]

by Steven M. Bellovin

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2008, held in New York, NY, USA, in June 2008.

The 30 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 131 submissions. The papers address all aspects of applied cryptography and network security with special focus on novel paradigms, original directions, and non-traditional perspectives.

Paperback

First published July 7, 2008

About the author

Dr. Steven Michael Bellovin (PhD, Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; M.S., Computer Science, UNC@CH; B.A., Columbia University) is the Percy K. and Vida L.W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University.

While a graduate student, he helped create Netnews (USENET); for this, he "and the other perpetrators" were given the 1995 Usenix Lifetime Achievement Award (The Flame). He was a member of the Internet Architecture Board from 1996-2002; he was co-director of the Security Area of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) from 2002 through 2004. In 2012 he was appointed Chief Technologist for the United States Federal Trade Commission.