In its most general form, an attack signature is a program that can correctly determine if an input network packet sequence can successfully attack a protected network application...
Access control is the fundamental security service in ad hoc groups. It is needed not only to prevent unauthorized entities from joining the group, but also to bootstrap other secu...
Domain Name System (DNS) is the system for the mapping between easily memorizable host names and their IP addresses. Due to its criticality, security extensions to DNS have been p...
Ad hoc groups, such as peer-to-peer (P2P) systems and mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) represent recent technological advancements. They support low-cost, scalable and fault-tolera...
In an open network such as the Internet, multicast security services typically start with group session-key distribution. Considering scalability for group communication among wide...