Abstract The Internet provides a ubiquitous, standards-based substrate for global communications of all kinds. Rapid advances are now being made in agreeing protocols and machine-p...
The Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and its variant, Transport Layer Security (TLS), are used toward ensuring server security. In this paper, we characterize the cryptographic strength ...
Rivest and Shamir presented two simple micropayment schemes, “PayWord” and “MicroMint,” for making small purchases over the Internet [14]. Recently, Adachi et al. have poi...
This paper describes an access control mechanism that enforces at the network level an access control decision that is taken at the application level. The mechanism is based on th...
Peer-To-Peer (P2P) systems have made an enormous impact on the Internet, directly affecting its performance and security. The litigation against P2P file sharing has led some desi...