Cryptography and Public Key Infrastructure on the Internet provides a thorough overview of the subject. It explains how susceptible networks are to hacking and how cryptography can help. This comprehensive and practical guide covers:
- Public Key Infrastructures (PKIs); important when using cryptography in a large organisation,
- the difference between the SSL protocol and the IPSec standard,
- integration of cryptography into the different OSI-layers, and how to decide whether hardware or software solutions are the right means to achieve this.
- standardisation
- authentication
- elliptic curve cryptography
- chip cards
- algorithm modes and protocols - including SSL, TLS, IPSec, SMIME and PGP protocols
- cryptography"s connection with biometry (using biological characteristics for authentication purposes).