Radia Perlman Knihy

Perlman, a bestselling author and senior consulting engineer for Sun Microsystems, provides insight for building more robust, reliable, secure and manageable networks. Coverage also includes routing and addressing strategies, VLANs, multicasting, IPv6, and more.

This witty, concisely-written guide to the latest advances in network security protocols provides a critical assessment of the state of network security protocols and mechanisms (what works, what doesn't, and why). It also explains the cryptographic algorithms on which most security systems depend, describes secure electronic mail standards, contrasts competing schemes, and more.