Elsevier

Computers & Security

Volume 11, Issue 7, November 1992, Pages 653-659
Computers & Security

CISS: Generalized security libraries

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Abstract

The paper describes the content, structure, implementation and usage of the Generalized Security Libraries. There are two of these libraries: the library with general mathematical and cryptographic functions with large integers, and the library with various security mechanisms, implemented with modules from the first library. The paper describes the second library. The modules from the library can be used in a flexible way, so that various security services and security systems may be implemented based on usage of the library. All modules are implemented in ANSI.C and comply with existing international (ISO) standards. The library is available for commercial distribution as the CISS-EDU (educational and demo) sytem or incorporated in several larger security products and systems[1].

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Sead Muftic received his B.Sc. degree from the University of Sarajevo,Department of Mathemetics in 1971, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the CIS Department, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, U.S.A. in 1974 and 1976. From 1971 to 1973 he was IBM systems engineer, from 1973 to 1976 teaching and research assistant at the Ohio State University, and from 1976 to 1984 the director of the Urban Information Center in Sarajevo. Currently, Dr. Muftic is a visiting professor at the University of Stockholm. Dr. Muftic is the Project coordinator of the CEC COST-11 Ter Security Project, the working group coordinator in the CEC COST-225 Security Project, and the coordinator of the Department for Computer Technologies in the European Center for Peace and Development of the U.N. University for Peace. Dr. Muftic is the author of five computer books, three of them in computer security, Security Mechanisms for Computer Networks published in the U.K. (1988), Security in IBM Systems published in the U.S.A. (1989) and Security Architecture for Open Distributed Systems (1992).

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Edina Hatunic received a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics with Computer Science from University of Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, in 1989. From 1989 to 1991, she worked at IRIS-ENERGOINVEST, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (Institute for Computer and Information Systems) in Network Security Research Group, where she worked on the CEC Projects, COST-11 Ter “Computer Networks Security” and COST-225 “Secure Communications”. Since September of 1991, she has been registered for an M.Sc. Thesis at the Computer Network and Distributed Systems (CNDS) Research Group, Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland. Working title for M.Sc. Thesis is “Security for TMN (Telecommunications Management Network)”.

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