A cryptographic security architecture is the collection of hardware and software that protects and controls the use of encryption keys and similar cryptovariables. It is the foundation for enforcing computer security policies and controls and preempting system misuse.

This book provides a comprehensive design for a portable, flexible high-security cryptographic architecture, with particular emphasis on incorporating rigorous security models and practices. "Cryptographic Security Architecture" unveils an alternative means of building a trustworthy system based on concepts from established software engineering principles and cognitive psychology. Its novel security-kernel design implements a reference monitor that controls access to security-relevant objects and attributes based on a configurable security policy.

Topics and features:

* Builds a concise architectural design that can be easily extended in the future

* Develops an application-specific security kernel that enforces a fully customizable, rule-based security policy

* Presents a new verification technique that allows verification from the high-level specification down to the running code

* Describes effective security assurance in random number generation, and the pitfalls associated therewith

* Examines the generation and protection of cryptovariables, as well as application of the architectural design to cryptographic hardware

The work provides an in-depth presentation of a flexible, platform-independent cryptographic security architecture suited to software, hardware, and hybrid implementations. Security design practitioners, professionals, researchers, and advanced students will find the work an essential resource.

The US economy does many things right. But it also does many things wrong. This book is focused on aspects of the US economy that require some correction. The book is addressed to the intelligent general reader. It does not use equations, graphs, diagrams, footnotes or arcane gobbledygook. The book is divided into 26 chapters in 8 sections. Each section covers a general theme. Globalization: effect of the huge increase in the world's effective labor force, competition in more labor categories and shift in comparative advantage on the US import surplus and the dollar. Social Justice: division of the US into three societies - the rich, the poor and the middle class, separate and unequal; income distribution; access; entitlements; capture of Congress by producers as opposed to consumers. Life's Essentials: problems with health, education, housing, work, retirement and pensions, energy. Personal Risk: increase in personal risk of our population and the anxieties this creates; desire to reduce personal risk. The Macroeconomy: eating the house; problems of demand, savings, government deficits; living beyond our means; mortgaging the future. The State: who gets the tax dollar; overcommitment by government; infrastructure problems. Assets: the liquidity sloshing around the. world - effect on US housing prices; ensuing sub prime credit crunch - resurgence of sensitivity to risk (a risk shift) - near panic in the. bond markets; need to reexamine mortgage regulations, General: waste and excess in the US; the problems of immigration and resolution of those illegals already here.

This book clarifies common confusions in macroeconomics. It does not use equations, graphs, diagrams or footnotes. The book is designed to focus on a number of macroeconomic subjects that are so often unclear in public discussion of policy, in the press, and in economics textbooks. The book also presents information on US income distribution, as well as historical data on inflation rates, on real GDP per capita growth rates and on population growth rates. It covers a series of important topics. Included are: "surplus of savings"; effects of the import surplus; steep and shallow yield curves; capital movements and interest rates; overvaluation of the dollar; deficits and debt; world income redistribution and petroleum prices; the decline in assessment of risk; bubbles; the "twin deficits"; the Achilles heel of the US economy; and more. New York, January 2006