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More copies of this ISBN:E-mail Security: How to Keep Your Electronic Messages Privateby Bruce Schneier
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Who's Reading Your E-Mail? The Competition? A Reporter? Your Boss? The world of e-mail is the world of postcards. Between you and your correspondents may lurk a foreign government, a business competitor, an overzealous law enforcement agency, or even just a nosy neighbor! The problem is, all of these potential eavesdroppers, given fairly simple access tools, can read your messages as easily as a postal worker can read your postcards. In this book, security expert Bruce Schneier shows you how to protect your privacy by sealing your messages in "electronic envelopes." E-Mail Security is about protecting electronic mail from spies, interlopers, and spoofs-people who may want to destroy, alter, or just look at your private communications. The book shows how you can protect the financial information, contract negotiations, or personal correspondence you entrust to public or private networks-and it shows how this protection is available right now, with free or inexpensive software. The author, a highly regarded security consultant, explains the issues and technologies, examines the currently available software, and helps you choose the approach that's right for you. Included is detailed information on: * PGP and PEM-the hottest encryption programs * DES and IDEA encryption algorithms * The RSA and DSA public-key algorithms * Key management-critical in security * Patent and export issues-who "owns" these programs Book News Annotation:Deals with protecting security of electronic mail using free and
inexpensive software. Reviews security issues, examines current
software, and covers encryption programs and algorithms, public-key
algorithms, key management, patents, governments, and export laws.
Appendices offer user's guides for PGP and PEM encryption programs.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:Using non-technical, jargon-free language, it takes a look at the issues of privacy in E-mail, rates the security of the most popular E-mail programs and offers practical solutions in the form of two leading-edge encryption programs, Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) and Pretty Good Privacy (PGP). Highlights the potential problems with the security systems of the most popular commercial E-mail products including Lotus cc:Mail, DaVinci Mail, Microsoft Mail and the Apple Open Collaborative Environment. Anecdotes, dramatizing the vulnerability of many so-called ``secure communications systems, are also included. About the AuthorBRUCE SCHNEIER is a security consultant and President of Counterpane Systems. He is a contributing editor to Dr. Dobb's Journal, a frequent lecturer, and the author of Applied Cryptography. Table of ContentsPRIVACY AND ELECTRONIC MAIL. The Problem. Encryption. Key Management. Authentication. Certificates. Keeping Your Private Key Private. Odds and Ends. Patents, Governments, and Export Laws. ACHIEVING ELECTRONIC-MAIL PRIVACY. Requirements and Features. Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM). Pretty Good Privacy (PGP). Comparing PGP and PEM. Attacks Against PGP and PEM. Appendices. Index. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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