Ipsec (Prentice-Hall PTR Web Infrastructure Series) (Paperback)

Authors Doraswamy and Harkins first treat IPSec as a system, explaining how its component parts work together to provide flexible security. Their approach to this task makes sense: they first explain why standard IP packets aren't secure; then they show how the IPSec improvements make secure transactions possible. Readers get full descriptions of how various network entities talk to one another. Where appropriate, concepts that aren't specific to IPSec are explained, including IPv4 and IPv6 packet structures and addressing schemes. There's some information on cryptography too.

IPSec's parts are explained individually: the Authentication Header (AH), Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP), Internet Key Exchange (IKE), and ISAKMP/Oakley protocols are detailed with lots of prose, supplemented with a smattering of packet diagrams and conceptual sketches. Sections on implementing IPSec protocols on networks remain fairly abstract and don't mention actual products, but should prove useful to programmers designing their own network security products around the IPSec specifications. --David Wall --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description

IPSec enables companies to build VPNs and other Internet-centered mission-critical applications with confidence that their data will remain secure. IPSec, Second Edition is the most authoritative, comprehensive, accessible, and up-to-date guide to IPSec technology. In this book, two leading authorities in IPSec standardization and implementation cover every facet of IPSec architecture and deployment -- and present detailed case studies that demonstrate how IPSec can be used to provide end-to-end security in real business environments. The authors lay the groundwork for understanding IPSec with a concise review of the relevant fundamentals of cryptography and TCP/IP networking. Next, they introduce IPSec's architecture and components, including its Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP), Authenticated Header (AH), Internet Key Exchange, IPSec modes, security associations, processing, and ICMP-related issues. IPSec, Second Edition contains detailed coverage of deployment issues, including policy definition, representation, distribution, and management; implementation architectures; and extensive case examples of IPSec usage in the real world. For every networking professional interested in Internet security -- not just security specialists!

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