Digital Cash: Commerce on the Net
by Peter Wayner
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
ISBN: 0127887725
This second edition of the highly acclaimed "Digital Cash" is an updated and comprehensive guide to exchanging money over the Net. The changes in this new edition are based on the excellent user feedback received, encompassing dozens of new topics and expansion of chapters from the first edition. The enclosed DOS disk contains CGI scripts and demos of digital cash software.
E-Commerce Security: Weak Links, Best Defenses
by Anup K. Ghosh
John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471192236
Online security investigator and research scientist Anup Ghosh takes a realistic look at the state of security for electronic commerce. He is neither a Pollyanna believing that all is fine, nor a doomsayer predicting catastrophe for transactions lacking virtual plate armor. In fact, he feels that some levels of security are excessive. But he emphasizes that any security system is only as strong as its weakest point. If you''re going to trust your money to online transactions, you need to know where your weaknesses lie and how to correct them.
To that end, Ghosh discusses real-life security failures -- how they occurr and how recurrences can be prevented. He then takes a systematic look at the areas of risk. One chapter deals with potential problems in active Web content, such as Java applets, ActiveX controls, and push technology. He examines data protocols to secure transactions with the warning that the data can be vulnerable before and after the secure transmission. The weaknesses of server hardware and software come under scrutiny as well. Ghosh calls for greater attention to security as software is being developed and looks at what advances are likely to be coming down the road.
Fermat''s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World''s Greatest Mathematical Problem
by Simon Singh and John Lynch
Bantam Books
ISBN: 0385493622
xn+ yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution
"I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain."
With these words, the seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat threw down the gauntlet to future generations. What came to be known as Fermat''s Last Theorem looked simple; proving it, however, became the Holy Grail of mathematics, baffling the finest minds for more than 350 years. In "Fermat''s Enigma" -- based on the author''s award-winning documentary film, which aired on PBS''s "Nova" -- Simon Singh tells the astonishingly entertaining story of the pursuit of that grail, and the lives that were devoted to, sacrificed for, and saved by it.
Compelling, dramatic, and entirely accessible, "Fermat''s Enigma" is a mesmerizing tale of heartbreak and mastery, and one that will forever change the reader''s feelings about mathematics. Simon Singh co-produced an award-winning documentary film on Fermat''s Last Theorem that aired on PBS''s "Nova" series.
Hackers: Crime in the Digital Sublime
by Paul A. Taylor
Routledge
ISBN: 0415180724
The practice of computer hacking is increasingly being viewed as a major security dilemma in Western societies, by governments and security experts alike. Using material taken from interviews with a wide range of interested parties such as computer scientists, security experts and hackers themselves, Paul Taylor provides a revealing and richly sourced account of the debates that surround this controversial practice. By doing so, he reveals the inherent dangers in the extremes of conciliation and antagonism with which society reacts to hacking and argues that a new compromise must be found if we are to make the most of society''s high-tech meddlers.
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