Advances in network and distributed systems security Book

The more our society relies on electronic forms of communication, the more the security of these communication networks is essential for its well-functioning. As a consequence, research on methods and techniques to improve network security is extremely important. Topics in this volume include the developments in: security protocols; secure software engineering; mobile agent security; e-commerce security; and security for distributed computing.; This title contains the proceedings of the First International Working Conference on Network Security (I-NetSec 01), which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), and held in Leuven, Belgium in November 2001.