Mark D. Ryan

Guilin Wang

Ben Smyth

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience, ISPEC 2012, held in Hangzhou, China, in April 2012. The 20 revised full papers presented together with 7 work-in-progress papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 109 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on digital signatures, public key cryptography, cryptanalysis, differential attacks, oblivious transfer, internet security, key management, applied cryptography, pins, fundamentals, fault attacks, and key recovery.

8th International Conference, ISPEC 2012, Hangzhou, China, April 9-12, 2012, Proceedings

Information Security Practice and Experience

Stephen Gilmore

A feature is a small modification or extension of a system which can be seen as having a self-contained functional role, such as Call Forwarding, Automatic Call back and Voice Mail in telephone services, to which users can subscribe. Feature interaction happens when one feature modifies or subverts the operation of another, and this problem has received a great deal of attention from industry and academics, especially in the field of telecommunications, where new services are constantly being developed and deployed. This volume contains refereed papers resulting from the ESPRIT FIREworks working group. The papers focus on the language constructs which have been developed describing features, and advocate a feature-oriented approach to software design including requirements specification languages and verifications logics.

Proceedings of the FIREworks workshop

Language Constructs for Describing Features

Stephan Reiff-Marganiec

Features - additional services - occur whenever organisations compete by differentiating their products from those of rival organisations. Adding one feature may break another, or interfere with it in an undesired way. This phenomenon is called feature interaction. This book explores ways in which the feature interaction problem may be mitigated.

Feature Interactions in Telecommunications and Software Systems VIII

Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon

Joshua Phillips

Securing privacy in the current environment is one of the great challenges of today’s democracies. Privacy vs. Security explores the issues of privacy and security and their complicated interplay, from a legal and a technical point of view. Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon provides a thorough account of the legal underpinnings of the European approach to privacy and examines their implementation through privacy, data protection and data retention laws. Joshua Philips and Mark D. Ryan focus on the technological aspects of privacy, in particular, on today’s attacks on privacy by the simple use of today’s technology, like web services and e-payment technologies and by State-level surveillance activities.

Mark D. Ryan

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