Secure Messaging with PGP and S/MIME [Hardcover]

Rolf Oppliger (Author)

Book Description

Series: Artech House Computer Security Series | Publication Date: December 15, 2000

This unique new book offers you a comprehensive understanding of secure Internet messaging, and brings together all the relevant and critical information you need to use PGP and S/MIME-compliant software for your projects. It explores the conceptual and technical approaches followed by the developers of both PGP and S/MIME, and gives you a thorough treatment of the latest and most-effective technologies for secure messaging.

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Secure Messaging with PGP and S/MIME attempts to bring together all relevant and important information that is needed to understand and use PGP- and S/MIME-compliant software. As such, the book is aimed to fill the gap between the manuals that describe the graphical user interfaces of the various software packages and the Internet-Drafts and RFC documents that mainly focus on packet formats and bit encoding schemes of PGP and S/MIME.

The book is primarily intended for security managers, network practitioners, professional system and network administrators, product implementors, and end users who want to learn more about the rationale behind and the possibilities of secure messaging with PGP and S/MIME. The book can be used for self-study or to teach classes.

About the Author

Rolf Oppliger is the founder and owner of eSECURITY Technologies Rolf Oppliger and works for the Swiss Federal Strategy Unit for Information Technology (FSUIT) . He is also the author of Security Technologies for the World Wide Web (Artech House, 1999) , Internet and Intranet Security (Artech House, 1998), and Authentication Systems for Secure Networks (Artech House, 1996). Dr. Oppliger is the computer security series editor at Artech House. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Berne, Switzerland, and the Venia Legendi in Computer Science from the University of Z?rich, Switzerland).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 305 pages
• Publisher: Artech House; 1st edition (December 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 158053161X
• ISBN-13: 978-1580531610
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,133,823 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Rolf Oppliger studied computer science, mathematics, and economics at the University of Berne, Switzerland, where he received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science in 1991 and 1993, respectively. In 1999, he received the venia legendi for computer science, and in 2007 he was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. The focus of his professional activities is information technology (IT) security in general, and network security in particular. He has authored more than ten books, including, for example, Contemporary Cryptography (Artech House, 2005) and SSL and TLS: Theory and Practice (Artech House, 2009), frequently speaks at security-related conferences, and regularly publishes papers and articles in scientific magazines and journals. He's the founder and owner of eSECURITY Technologies Rolf Oppliger (http://www.esecurity.ch), works for the Swiss Federal Strategy Unit for Information Technology (FSUIT), teaches at the University of Zürich, and serves as editor for the Artech House information security and privacy (former computer security) series. He is a senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). He also served as vice-chair of the IFIP TC 11 working group on network security.