Applied Cryptography and Network Security

by Steven M. Bellovin (editor)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2007, held in Zhuhai, China, in June 2007. The 31 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from around 260 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on signature schemes, computer and network security, cryptanalysis, group-oriented security, cryptographic protocols, anonymous authentication, identity-based cryptography, security in wireless, ad-hoc, and peer-to-peer networks, as well as efficient implementation.

528 pages, Paperback

First published July 22, 2005

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.