Demystifying the IPsec Puzzle (Artech House Computer Security Series)

Now that the Internet has blossomed into the Information Superhighway with its traffic and drivers becoming increasingly diverse, security has emerged as a primary concern. This book offers the reader a global, integrated approach to providing internet security at the network layer. The author gives a detailed presentation of the revolutionary IPsec technology used today to create Virtual Private Networks and, in the near future, to protect the infrastructure of the Internet itself.

Sheila Frankel is a computer scientist at NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology). She holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Yeshiva University and a M.S. in computer science from New York University. Her current responsibilities include NIST’s IPsec and IKE reference implementations, Cerberus and PlutoPlus; and NIST’s interactive WWW-based IPsec interoperability tester, IPsec-WIT.