Chapter 8. Security
8.1 Scenarios and security requirements
8.2 Threats and risk analysis
8.3 Approaches to encryption
8.4 Algorithms
8.5 Protocols
8.6 Examples
8.7 Summary
In this chapter we consider the security issues associated with the various styles of software interaction we have studied. Centralized software systems, both with single and with multiple users, have protection requirements and we discussed in earlier chapters how these can be met. The security concerns in distributed software systems are significantly more severe and they are our main focus here. We first state some of the problems then describe various techniques that together can be brought to their solution. We explain three building blocks that form the basis of most current ...
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