Archives for the Month of February, 2008

Smart Dust

The current ultramodern technologies are focusing on automation and miniaturization. The decreasing computing device size, increased connectivity and enhanced interaction with the physical world have characterized computing’s history. Recently, the popularity of small computing devices, such as hand held computers and cell phones; rapidly flourishing internet group and the diminishing size and cost of sensors [...]

Kerberos

Kerberos is a network authentication protocol. It is designed to provide strong authentication for client/server applications by using secret-key cryptography. A free implementation of this protocol is available from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kerberos is available in many commercial products as well.
The Internet is an insecure place. Many of the protocols used in the [...]

Capability Maturity Model

CMM (Capability Maturity Model) is a model of process maturity for software development - an evolutionary model of the progress of a company’s abilities to develop software. In November 1986, the American Software Engineering Institute (SEI) in cooperation with Mitre Corporation created the Capability Maturity Model for Software.
Development of this model was necessary so that [...]

Symbian OS

Symbian is a joint venture between Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, Matsushita, and Psion, with Nokia as one of the founding members. Symbian was established by leaders in the computing and mobile industries to enable the mass market of communicators and smart phones. Symbian owns and develops the Symbian operating system that is optimized for mobile terminals, [...]

Cryptovirology

Cryptovirology is a field that studies how to use cryptography to design powerful malicious software. It encompasses overt attacks such as cryptoviral extortion where a cryptovirus, cryptoworm, or cryptotrojan hybrid encrypts the victim’s files and the user must pay the malware author to receive the needed session key (that is encrypted under the author’s public [...]