Communications and Multimedia Security: 10th IFIP TC-6 TC 11 International Conference, CMS 2006, Heraklion Crete, Greece, October 19-21, 2006, ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4237) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3540478205 ISBN 13: 9783540478201

Publisher: Springer, 2006

Synopsis

Duringthelastfewyearsweseenetworkandinformationsystemsecurityplaying an increasingly important role in our everyday lives. As our computers continue to get infested by all sorts of malware, and as our networks continue to choke with spam and malicious tra?c, we see more and more people losing their co- dence in information technologies as they get signi?cantly concernedabout their security as well as their privacy and that of their loved ones. In their e?ort to cope with the problem, scientists, managers, and politicians all over the world havedesignedandarecurrently implementing systematicapproachesto network and information security, most of which are underlined by the same principle: there is much more room for improvement and research. Along the lines of encouraging and catalyzing research in the area of c- munications and multimedia security, it is our great pleasure to present the proceedings of the 10th IFIP TC-6 TC-11 Conference on Communications and MultimediaSecurity(CMS2006),whichwasheldinHeraklion,CreteonOctober 19-21, 2006. Continuing the tradition of previous CMS conferences, we sought a balanced program containing presentations on various aspects of secure c- munication and multimedia systems. Special emphasis was laid on papers with direct practical relevance for the construction of secure communication systems. The selection of the program was a challenging task. In total, we received 76 submissions, from which 22 were selected for presentation as full papers.

About this title

Synopsis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th IFIP TC-6 TC-11 International Conference on Communications and Multimedia Security, CMS 2006, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece in October 2006. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 76 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on applied network and information security, identification and authentication, DRM and multimedia security, Web and XML security, cryptography, privacy and data protection, as well as network and information security analysis and modeling.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540478205
• ISBN 13: 9783540478201
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Leitold Herbert, Markatos Evangelos