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Useful Web SitesA chapter-by-chapter list of related web sites. This includes all active sites listed in the book, plus other useful sites. Suggestions welcome.
Course Support Materials
Student Resource Site:
Help and advice for the long-suffering, overworked student.
Errata sheet: Latest list of errors, updated at most monthly. File name is Errata-Security2e-mmyy. If you spot any errors, please report them to 
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Viewgraphs:
On-line transparency masters of some of the figures from the book in PDF
(Adobe Acrobat) format.
Tables:
On-line transparency masters of all the tables from the book in PDF format.
Course Notes:
A detailed set of notes in HTML format suitable for student handout or for
use as viewgraphs. These notes were developed for use with this book by
Dr. Lawrie Brown at the Australian Defence Force Academy, University College,
UNSW.
PowerPoint
Slides: A set of slides that focus mostly on Parts Three and Four by
Henric Johnson at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Cryptography
Slides: A set of PDF slides suitable for lecture or handout that covers
cryptography topics in some detail.
Laboratory
Exercises on Encryption: Two lab exercises on public-key encryption
and key sharing, prepared by Prof. James Benham of Montclair State U.
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Security CoursesInstructors might find these web sites for courses taught using this
book useful.
Computer
Security and Cryptography. At the Australian Defence Force Academy,
University College, UNSW. Includes ppt slides and lab exercises.
ECE 478/578 Computer and Network Security. Oregon State U.. Useful project ideas; good links.
Cryptography Independent Study.U. of Puget Sound. Good set of links.
CS494
Computer and Network Security. U. of Tennessee. Good set of links and
other resources.
Cryptography and Data Security. Uppsala U, Sweden. Includes lecture notes and a number of useful links.
CSE
508 Computer Security. SUNY, Stony Brook. Includes lecture notes.
EECS
598 Cryptography and Network Security. U of Michigan. On-line presentation
slides.
ECE
5477/8476 Computer Communications Security. Villanova.
ECE
543 Cryptology and Computer Network Security. At George Mason U. Includes
list of projects and laboratory exercises.
CS
538 Cryptography. At Boston University.
CMSC-443
Cryptography and Data Security. At U of Maryland.
Suggestions, Please
If you have any suggestions for site content, please contact me at . In particular, please pass along links to relevant web sites and links to course pages used by instructors teaching from this book.
Useful Web
SitesCOAST:
Comprehensive set of links to sites related to cryptography and network
security.
IETF Security
Area: Keep up to date on Internet security standardization efforts
The
Cryptography FAQ: Lengthy and worthwhile FAQ covering all aspects of
cryptography.
Tom
Dunigan's Security Page: An excellent list of pointers to cryptography
and network security web sites.
IEEE
Technical Committee on Security and Privacy: Home of the electronic
newsletter Cipher, which provides book reviews, new crypto and security
links, and links to reports and papers available online.
Computer Security Resource Center: Maintained by NIST; contains a broad range of information on security threats, technology, and standards.
Computer and Network Security Reference Index: A good index to vendor and commercial products, FAQs, newsgroup archives, papers, and other Web sites.
SNMPv3
Security: My paper, "SNMPv3: A Security Enhancement to SNMP"
published in the 4th Quarter 1998 issue of the online journal IEEE Communications
Surveys.
AES
Home Page: NIST's page on the new Advanced Encryption Standard.
MIT Kerberos
Site: Information about Kerberos, including the FAQ, papers and documents,
and pointers to commercial product sites.
USC/ISI Kerberos Page: Another good source of Kerberos material.
Public-Key
Infrastructure Working Group: IETF group developing standards based
on X.509v3.
Verisign: A leading
commercial vendor of X.509-related products; white papers and other worthwhile
material at this site.
PGP Home Page: Web site of Network Associates' PGP products.
MIT Distribution
Site for PGP: Leading distributer of freeware PGP. Contains FAQ, other
information, and links to other PGP sites.
S/MIME
Charter: Latest RFCs and internet drafts for S/MIME.
S/MIME
Central: RSA Inc.'s Web site for S/MIME. Includes FAQ and other useful
information.
IPSEC
Charter: Latest RFCs and internet drafts for IPsec.
IPSEC
Working Group News: Working group documents, mail archives, related
technical papers, and other useful material.
IPSEC
Resources: List of companies implementing IPSec, implementation survey,
and other useful material.
Netscape's
SSL Page: Contains the SSL specification.
TLS
Charter: Latest RFCs and internet drafts for TLS.
MasterCard
SET Site: Latest SET documents, glossary of terms, and application information.
SETCo LLC:
Organization that promotes SET.
CERT Coordination Center:
The organization that grew from the computer emergency response team formed
by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Site provides good information
on Internet security threats, vulnerabilities, and attack statistics.
Anti-Virus
Research: IBM's site on virus information; one of the best.