Communications and Multimedia Security

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Issues of attack in distributed systems - A Generic Attack Model

   • Ioanna Kantzavelou, Patel A.

   Pages 1-16

3. The Puzzling Science of Information Integrity

   • Gustavus J. Simmons

   Pages 17-23

4. Covered Trust Values in Distributed Systems

   • Birgit Borcherding, Malte Borcherding

   Pages 24-31

5. File server architecture for an open distributed document system

   • B. Christianson, P. Hu, B. Snook, DeMontford University

   Pages 32-42

6. A Heuristic for Securing Hypertext Systems

   • Martin S. Olivier

   Pages 43-54

7. Video Communication — Security and Quality Issues

   • Klaus Keus, Robert Thomys

   Pages 55-65

8. The Graphical Interface for Secure Mail

   • France Bračun, Borka Jerman-Blažič, Tomaž Klobučar, Denis Trček

   Pages 66-79

9. The Network Security Reference Model: its Security Subjects and their Classification Criteria

   • Tetsuya Chikaraishi, Yasushi Oki, Takao Shimomura, Tadashi Ohta

   Pages 80-96

10. A strategic approach to a national security policy

    • Hans G. Zeger

    Pages 97-109

11. The Patient Card and its Position in a ‘New Health Care System’

    • Claus O. Köhler

    Pages 110-116

12. Access controls for federated database environments - taxonomy of design choices

    • W. Eβmayr, F. Kastner, S. Preishuber, G. Pernul, A M. Tjoa

    Pages 117-132

13. Authorization in Multimedia Conferencing Systems

    • E. B. Fernandez, P. D. Chien

    Pages 133-147

14. Authentication and key distribution in computer networks and distributed systems

    • Rolf Oppliger

    Pages 148-159

15. Hidden signature schemes based on the discrete logarithm problem and related concepts

    • Patrick Horster, Markus Michels, Holger Petersen

    Pages 160-177

16. Digital signature schemes based on Lucas functions

    • Patrick Horster, Markus Michels, Holger Petersen

    Pages 178-190

17. Power permutations on prime residue classes

    • Fischer Harald, Stingl Christian

    Pages 191-197

18. Hill cipher application to Multimedia Security

    • Nikitas V. Nikitakos

    Pages 198-204

19. From ‘Steganographia’ to Subliminal Communication

    • Otto J. Horak

    Pages 205-213

20. On the fractal nature of the set of all binary sequences with almost perfect linear complexity profile

    • Harald Niederreiter, Michael Vielhaber

    Pages 214-221

This volume covers many aspects of multimedia and communications security, from national security policies to file server architectures, from hypertext documents to specialized cryptographic algorithms. It provides the interested reader with a spectrum of up-to-the-minute knowledge on the topics covered.

• communication
• computer network
• distributed systems
• information
• multimedia
• network security

• Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications, Technical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

  Reinhard Posch

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