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IEEE Conference Proceedings

 

Find the full-text in IEEE Xplore. The Cole Library subscribes to this database.
Access it at the following address: http://www.ewp.rpi.edu/hartford/library/dbs_compsci.htm

  • IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)
    Dates currently available in database: 1997 - current
    Technical Committee on Security and Privacy web site: http://www.ieee-security.org/
  • Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)
    Dates currently available in database: 1997 - current
    web site: http://www.acsac.org/
  • Computer Security, Dependability and Assurance (CSDA)
    Dates currently available in database: 1998
  • Computer Security Foundations Workshop (CSFW)
    Dates currently available in database: 1989 - current
  • Symposium on Network and Distributed Systems Security (SNDSS)
    Dates currently available in database: 1995 - 1997
  • International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology
    Dates currently available in database: 1998 - 2002
  • DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition
    Dates currently available in database: 2000, 2001, 2003
  • Security in Storage Workshop
    Dates currently available in database: 2002


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ACM Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

ACM SIGs sponsor conferences and publish journals and newsletters. These links bring you to the ACM Digital Library's listing of each SIGs' publications and full-text articles. You can get to each SIG's homepage by clicking the SIG's abbreviation on that page as well.

SIGSAC: ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit, and Control

These SIGSAC publications are also available in print in the library:

  • Computer and Communications Security Conference (CCS)
    Also available in print in the Library: QA76.9.A25 A26 1998 - current
  • New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW)
    Also available in print in the Library: QA76.9.A25 A34 1997 - current
  • Role Based Access Control Workshop (RBAC)
    Also available in print in the Library: QA76.9.A25 A25 1997 - 2000
  • Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT)
    Also available in print in the Library: QA76.9.A25 A25 2001 - current
  • Workshop on XML Security
    Also available in print in the Library: QA76.9.A25 A38 2002

To check availability, search the library's catalog by Author for Association for Computing Machinery. Special Interest Group on Security, Audit, and Control.

 

SIGACT: ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory

SIGCAS: ACM Special Interest Group on Computers and Society

SIGCOMM: ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication

SIGEcom: ACM Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce

SIGMOBILE: ACM Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing

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Journals and Books

  • Journal of Cryptology
    The journal is accessible through the E-journals link on the Cole Library homepage.
    Dates available: 2003 - current
  • ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics
    The journal is accessible from the ACM Digital Library.
    Dates available: 1996 - current
  • Computers and Security
    You can search the abstracts only of this journal through the Compendex Web database (http://www.ewp.rpi.edu/hartford/library/dbs_compsci.htm).
    You can obtain full-text articles from Science Direct:
    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01674048
    Dates available: 1995 - current
  • Journal of Algorithms
    You can obtain full text of articles through Science Direct:
    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01966774
    Dates available: 1993 - current
  • IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine
    The journal is accessible from IEEE Xplore.
    Dates available: 2003 - current
  • IEEE Network
    The journal is accessible from IEEE Xplore.
    Dates available: 1988 - current
  • IEEE /ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
    The journal is accessible from IEEE Xplore.
    Dates available: 1993 - current
  • Computer Technology (CSA)
    Search citations and abstracts of articles, proceedings and government reports. Full text of IT case studies are available at Computer Technology (CSA).
  • International Journal of Network Management
    The journal is accessible from ACM Digital Library.
    Dates available: 1996 - current
  • Mobile Networks and Applications
    The journal is accessible from ACM Digital Library.
    Dates available: 1996 - current
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    Thousands of Electronic Books on Engineering, IT and Management topics.

 

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Standards

 

Available through IEEE Xplore:

IEEE standards for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Interoperable LAN/MAN security (SILS). Currently contains Secure Data Exchange (SDE) (clause 2) 5 Feb 1993

IEEE standards for local and metropolitan area networks: supplement to standard for interoperable LAN/MAN security (SILS): Secure Data Exchange (SDE)-security label (Annexes 2I, 2J, and 2K) 16 Apr 1996

IEEE standards for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Supplement to Interoperable LAN/MAN Security (SILS) - Secure Data Exchange (SDE): Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS) proforma (Annex 2L) 27 May 1997

IEEE standards for local and metropolitan area networks: supplement to Standard for Interoperable LAN/MAN Security (SILS) - key management (clause 3) 17 Apr 1998

IEEE standards for local and metropolitan area networks: Standard for Interoperable LAN/MAN Security (SILS) 1998

IEEE standards for local and metropolitan area networks: supplement to Standard for Interoperable LAN/MAN Security (SILS) - security architecture framework 1999

IEEE Standard for Media Management Systems (MMS) Session Security, Authentication, Initialization Protocol (SSAIP) 2000

 

Available through the NIST Web site:

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 2001

Cryptographic Standards Toolkit

Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules 2001

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Suggested Search Terms

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings  

These are controlled vocabulary terms for finding materials in the library's catalog.

  • Computer Networks – Security Measures
  • Data encryption (Computer Science)
  • Public Key Cryptography
  • Cryptography
  • Ciphers

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Additional Resources

Collected Algorithms of the ACM
You can download algorithms from the web site: http://www.acm.org/calgo/.
Also available in print in the Library: REF QA76.95 A75

NIST Computer Security Resource Center
The site contains cryptographic standards and applications, information on security testing programs, research, and news. E-mail notification of new publications is available.

SANS (System Administration, Networking, and Security) Institute
SANS Institute is a research and education organization. Register for a free subscription to SANS NewsBites, a weekly high-level executive summary of the most important news articles that have been published on computer security during the last week. Browse the Information Security Reading Room for articles on a variety of security issues.

IEE Seminar on Protecting Your Intellectual Property: Security, Encryption and Anti-Copy Technologies (Ref. No. 1999/083), 1999 Available through IEEE Xplore.

RSA Security
RSA Security is an electronic security company. View the company's white papers. Register for a free subscription to the RSA e-Security Today newsletter.

A Layman's Guide to a Subset of ASN.1, BER, and DER by Burton S. Kaliski Jr. of RSA Data Security
Read this introduction to OSI's Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1), Basic Encoding Rules (BER) and Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER). Available as a Postscript (.ps) or Portable Document Format (.pdf) file.

Kerberos: The Network Authentication Protocol
Kerberos is designed to provide strong authentication for client/server applications by using secret-key cryptography. This protocol is available for free from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Updated: 2009-07-14, 18:33