The history of information security a comprehensive handbook /

Information Security is usually achieved through a mix of technical, organizational and legal measures. These may include the application of cryptography, the hierarchical modeling of organizations in order to assure confidentiality, or the distribution of accountability and responsibility by law, a...

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Other Authors: Leeuw, Karl de., Bergstra, J. A., ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier, 2007.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 887 pages) : illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Advisory Board
  • Preface
  • Table of Contents
  • 1. Introduction (K. de Leeuw)
  • Part I. Intellectual Ownership
  • 2. Limitations on the Publishing of Scientific Research (J. Meadows)
  • 3. Industrialists, Inventors, and the German Patent System, 1877-1957 (K. Gispen)
  • 4. Reflecting Media. A Cultural History of Copyright and the Media (R. Verhoogt and C. Schriks)
  • 5. The History of Copyright Protection of Computer Software: The Emancipation of a Work of Technology Toward a Work of Authorship (M. Cock Buning)
  • 6. The History of Software Patents (R. Plotkin)
  • Part II. Identity-Management
  • 7. Semiotics of Identity Management (P. Wisse)
  • 8. History of Document Security (K.J. Schell)
  • 9. From Frankpledge to Chip and Pin: Identification an Identity in England, 1475-2005 (E. Higgs)
  • 10. The Scientific Development of Biometrics Over the Last 40 Years (J.L. Wayman)
  • Part III. Communication Security
  • 11. The Rise of Cryptology in the European Renaissance (G.F. Strausser)
  • 12. Cryptology in the Dutch Republic: A Case-Study (K. de Leeuw)
  • 13. Intelligence and the Emergence of the Information Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain (J. Black)
  • 14. Rotor Machines and Bombes (F.L. Bauer)
  • 15. Tunny and Colussus: Breaking the Lorenz Schlüsselzusatz Traffic (B. Jack Copeland)
  • 16. Boris Hagelin and Crypto AG: Pioneers of Encryption (S. Frik)
  • 17. Eavesdroppers of the Kremlin: KGB Sigint during the Cold War (M. Aid)
  • 18. National Security Agency: The Historiography of Concealment (J. Fitsanakis)
  • 19. An Introduction to Modern Cryptography (B. Preneel)
  • Part IV. Computer Security
  • 20. A History of Computer Security Standards (J.R. Yost)
  • 21. Security Models (D. Gollmann)
  • 22. Computer Security through Correctness and Transparency (H. Meijer, J-H. Hoepman, B. Jacobs and E. Poll)
  • 23. IT Security and IT Auditing between 1960 and 2000 (M. van Biene-Hershey)
  • 24. A History of Internet Security (L. DeNardis)
  • 25. Cybercrime (S.W. Brenner)
  • Part V. Privacy- and Export Regulations
  • 26. The Export of Cryptography in the 20th Century and the 21st (W. Diffie and S. Landau)
  • 27. History of Privacy (J. Holvast)
  • 28. Munitions, Wiretaps and MP3s: The Changing Interface between Privacy and Encryption Policy in the Information Society (A. Charlesworth)
  • Part VI. Information Warfare
  • 29. The Information Revolution and the Transformation of Warfare (D. Kuehl)
  • Biographies.