Secure Messaging with PGP and S/Mime

This unique new book offers you a comprehensive understanding of secure Internet messaging, and brings together all the relevant and critical information you need to use PGP and S/MIME-compliant software for your projects. It explores the conceptual and technical approaches followed by the developers of both PGP and S/MIME, and gives you a thorough treatment of the latest and most-effective technologies for secure messaging.

Secure Messaging with PGP and S/MIME attempts to bring together all relevant and important information that is needed to understand and use PGP- and S/MIME-compliant software. As such, the book is aimed to fill the gap between the manuals that describe the graphical user interfaces of the various software packages and the Internet-Drafts and RFC documents that mainly focus on packet formats and bit encoding schemes of PGP and S/MIME.

The book is primarily intended for security managers, network practitioners, professional system and network administrators, product implementers, and end users who want to learn more about the rationale behind and the possibilities of secure messaging with PGP and S/MIME. The book can be used for self-study or to teach classes.

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Oppliger, a security consultant who works for the Swiss Federal Strategy Unit for Information Technology, provides a thorough treatment of secure Internet messaging, including discussion of PGP and S/MIME-compliant software. He also discusses the conceptual and technical approaches used by the developers of both PGP and S/MIME, evaluates new technologies for secure messaging, explains how to use cryptographic techniques to secure messaging and applications, and explores the differences between two competing standard protocols for secure messaging on the Internet. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Rolf Oppliger is the founder and owner of eSECURITY Technologies Rolf Oppliger (www.esecurity.ch) and works for the Swiss Federal Strategy Unit for Information Technology (FSUIT) . He is also the author of Security Technologies for the World Wide Web (Artech House, 1999), Internet and Intranet Security (Artech House, 1998), and Authentication Systems for Secure Networks (Artech House, 1996). Dr. Oppliger is the computer security series editor at Artech House. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Berne, Switzerland, and the Venia Legendi in Computer Science from the University of Zürich, Switzerland).