Bleumer Electronic Postage Systems

Technology, Security, Economics
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-44606-6
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 26, 248 Seiten

Reihe: Advances in Information Security

This book offers the first comprehensive overview of contemporary systems for secure electronic/digital postage. It introduces a taxonomy of electronic postage systems and explains their security risks and countermeasures. The underlying cryptographic mechanisms are introduced and explained, and the industrial-scale electronic postage systems existing worldwide are sorted out with respect to this taxonomy. The author also discusses privacy and anonymous mail, the state of standardization of electronic postage, and the process of security evaluation and testing of electronic postage systems.  

As senior cryptography architect, Gerrit Bleumer has designed the global cryptographic architecture of Francotyp-Postalia (FP), Birkenwerder (Berlin), Germany, which tracks the transport and delivery of cryptographic modules worldwide and supports postage meters from their initialization to removal from market. Since 2004, he heads the department of innovations management and product quality of the research and development division of Francotyp-Postalia. He has served on the advisory board of the Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security edited by Henk van Tilborg, and for several years on the program committee of the International Network Conference and the Workshop for Secure Data Management held in combination with VLDB. In 1991, he received a diploma in computer science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. From 1991 to 1996, he worked as research associate in several research projects in security of health care informatics funded by the Commission of the European Union. From 1997 to 1999, he was senior technical staff member at AT&T Labs-Research in Florham Park, NJ. In 2001 he received a Doctorate in computer science from the University of Dortmund, Germany.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bleumer, Gerrit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;7
2;List of Figures;12
3;List of Tables;15
4;Foreword;17
5;Preface;18
6;Acknowledgements;21
7;Chapter 1 Introduction;22
7.1;1.1 WHAT IS ELECTRONIC POSTAGE;22
7.2;1.2 SHORT HISTORY OF POSTAGE;23
7.3;1.3 FRAUD, METER MANIPULATION AND COUNTERMEASURES;30
7.4;1.4 THE RISE OF ELECTRONIC POSTAGE;37
7.5;1.5 ADVANCING POSTAL MARKETS;41
7.6;1.6 OUTLOOK;45
8;Chapter 2 Electronic Postage Systems;46
8.1;2.1 GENERAL MODEL OF E-POSTAGE SYSTEMS;46
8.2;2.2 E-POSTAGE DEVICES;56
8.3;2.3 VALUE ADDED SERVICES;60
9;Chapter 3 General Architecture of E- Postage Systems;71
9.1;3.1 E-POSTAGE DEVICES;71
9.2;3.2 E-POSTAGE PROVIDER SYSTEM;90
9.3;3.3 POST BACKOFFICE;104
9.4;3.4 MAIL PROCESSING CENTERS;105
10;Chapter 4 Cryptography Primer;110
10.1;4.1 BASIC CRYPTOGRAPHIC MECHANISMS;110
10.2;4.2 CONFIDENTIALITY AND PRIVACY;111
10.3;4.3 HASH FUNCTIONS;115
10.4;4.4 MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION;117
10.5;4.5 KEY MANAGEMENT;125
11;Chapter 5 General Security Architecture;138
11.1;5.1 WHAT IS A SECURITY ARCHITECTURE;138
11.2;5.2 OFFLINE E-POSTAGE SYSTEMS;138
11.3;5.3 ONLINE E-POSTAGE SYSTEMS;140
11.4;5.4 BACKOFFICE SECURITY DOMAINS;142
11.5;5.5 SUMMARY OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEYS;144
12;Chapter 6 Industrial Offline E-Postage Systems;145
12.1;6.1 INDUSTRIAL OFFLINE E-POSTAGE;145
12.2;6.2 THE CLOSED OFFLINE E-POSTAGE MARKET;145
12.3;6.3 UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICES;146
12.4;6.4 CANADA POST CORPORATION;158
12.5;6.5 DEUTSCHE POST;169
12.6;6.6 NETHERLANDS POST (TPG POST);182
12.7;6.7 OTHER POSTAL MARKETS;183
12.8;6.8 PRELIMINARY APPRAISAL;183
13;Chapter 7 Industrial Online E-Postage Systems;185
13.1;7.1 INDUSTRIAL ONLINE E-POSTAGE;185
13.2;7.2 THE ONLINE E-POSTAGE MARKET;185
13.3;7.3 UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICES;187
13.4;7.4 DEUTSCHE POST;192
14;Chapter 8 Security Risks in E-Postage Systems;200
14.1;8.1 RISK MANAGEMENT;200
14.2;8.2 ATTACKER MODEL;202
14.3;8.3 THREATS TO E-POSTAGE SYSTEMS;204
14.4;8.4 SECURITY SAFEGUARDS;213
15;Chapter 9 Privacy in E-Postage Systems;218
15.1;9.1 ANONYMOUS MAIL;218
15.2;9.2 ANONYMOUS POSTMARKS;220
15.3;9.3 AVAILABILITY;222
16;Chapter 10 Evaluation, Assurance and Postal Approval;223
16.1;10.1 TERMINOLOGY;223
16.2;10.2 THE POSTAL APPROVAL PROCESS;223
16.3;10.3 SECURITY COMPLIANCE TESTING;229
16.4;10.4 INTEGRATION TESTING OF E-POSTAGE PRO-VIDER SYSTEM;237
16.5;10.5 READABILITY TESTING;238
17;Chapter 11 Outlook ;241
17.1;11.1 THE FUTURE OF ELECTRONIC POSTAGE;241
18;References;243
19;Appendix A List of Acronyms;251
20;Appendix B About the Author;256
21;Index;257