Authentication and privacy in mobile web services

This thesis looks at the issue of authentication and privacy in mobile Web services. The work in this thesis builds on GSM and UMTS security framework to develop security protocols for mobile Web services environment. The thesis initially highlights some core principles of designing security protocols in such environment. The next two chapters look at the core technologies and building blocks in Web services systems and the core security features in mobile networks mainly GSM and UMTS. Registration and authentication were identified as security issues in federated systems. Proposed solutions were developed utilizing XML security mechanisms with SIM card security in GSM environment to address these issues. Also a novel system was proposed in which it is possible for a mobile user to securely authenticate and have full anonymity as far as the service providers are concerned; however it is possible for a trusted authority to reveal the identity of the user if he or she is suspected of illegal activities. The next section analyze in detail the Generic Authentication Architecture from 3GPP. Combining SAML with the Generic Authentication Architecture, we propose a novel "generic mobile Web service platform" for M-Commerce. Various solutions have been proposed to address privacy concern in distributed networks; the Platform for Privacy Preferences is one of the popular proposal, though it has many desirable features, it is not easy to enforce it. We argue that this limitation can be managed in federated system such as the Liberty Alliance framework. In the final chapter we make the case for using timestamp based authentication protocol in mobile Web service on the ground of efficiency gain

Index Catalogue to Russian, Central and Eastern European, and Chinese Literature in Medical Entomology, volume 1: Diptera

Over the past several years a large number of references from the USSR, Eastern Europe, and China have been collected dealing with arthropods of medical importance. These references were coded on keysort cards which made it possible to index as many as fifteen subject areas on one card. The usefulness of this indexing system was evident by the number of medical entomologists who used it in searching for references in their specialty. In response to requests from workers in the United States and other countries who did not have ready access to the index. it was decided to publish these references. The publication was made possible by the generous support of the United States Army Medical Research and Development Command, Department of the Army. Owing to the large number of references presently on hand. the plan is to issue this catalogue in a series of publications of which this is the first. Succeeding issues will deal with references on ticks, fleas, mites. lice, and other groups. Upon completion of these groups, other issues will be published containing references on various arthropod-borne diseases arranged according to the causative agents. No claim is made for completeness in this volume or in the succeeding volumes, although an effort has been made to locate as many references as possible. Notice of errors or omissions will be received gratefully. This work has been prepared in the Department of Zoology with the cooperation and interest of the following individuals to whom special acknowledgment is due, Vivian N. Andrews Alice Mae Brown Alena Elbl Beatrice Y. Foote Margaret H. Mace Dorothy W. Segal John C. Sewell Robert Richard Thacker George Anastes Professor and Head Department of Zoology College of Arts and Sciences University of Marylan

Index Catalogue to Russian, Central and Eastern European, and Chinese Literature in Medical Entomology, volume 1: Diptera

Over the past several years a large number of references from the USSR, Eastern Europe, and China have been collected dealing with arthropods of medical importance. These references were coded on keysort cards which made it possible to index as many as fifteen subject areas on one card. The usefulness of this indexing system was evident by the number of medical entomologists who used it in searching for references in their specialty. In response to requests from workers in the United States and other countries who did not have ready access to the index. it was decided to publish these references. The publication was made possible by the generous support of the United States Army Medical Research and Development Command, Department of the Army. Owing to the large number of references presently on hand. the plan is to issue this catalogue in a series of publications of which this is the first. Succeeding issues will deal with references on ticks, fleas, mites. lice, and other groups. Upon completion of these groups, other issues will be published containing references on various arthropod-borne diseases arranged according to the causative agents. No claim is made for completeness in this volume or in the succeeding volumes, although an effort has been made to locate as many references as possible. Notice of errors or omissions will be received gratefully. This work has been prepared in the Department of Zoology with the cooperation and interest of the following individuals to whom special acknowledgment is due, Vivian N. Andrews Alice Mae Brown Alena Elbl Beatrice Y. Foote Margaret H. Mace Dorothy W. Segal John C. Sewell Robert Richard Thacker George Anastes Professor and Head Department of Zoology College of Arts and Sciences University of Marylan

Unruly Ideas: A History of Kitawala in Congo

Original oral and ethnographic sources inform this conceptual history of power in central Africa, imagined through the lens of Kitawala religious practices. Unruly Ideas: A History of Kitawala in Congo recounts the multifaceted history of the Congolese religious movement Kitawala from its colonial beginnings in the 1920s through its continued practice in some of the most conflict-riven parts of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo today. Drawing on a rich body of original oral, ethnographic, and archival research, Nicole Eggers uses Kitawala as a lens through which to address the complex relationship between politics, religion, healing, and violence in central African history. Kitawala, which has roots in the African Watchtower (Jehovah’s Witness) movement, has long been viewed both by scholars and by popular historians as a form of male-dominated, anticolonial insurgency. But just as Kitawalists were never exclusively male, their teachings and activities were never directed solely at the Belgian colonial state, and their yearnings for self-rule were never entirely about the secular realms of authority. A more comprehensive look at the oral and archival evidence reveals they were and are concerned with the morality of power more broadly: on state, communal, and individual levels. Moreover, Kitawalist doctrine is itself unruly, and its preachers, prophets, and practitioners have articulated innumerable interpretations—most quite different from Watchtower Christianity—across space and time. More than a case study of a particular religious movement, Unruly Ideas is a conceptual history of power that investigates how communities and individuals in the region have historically imagined power, sought to access it, wielded it, and policed the morality of its uses. By focusing on power and its intellectual and social history in Congo, Unruly Ideas creates an analytical space in which readers can understand the differing manifestations of Kitawala—from its overtly political and sometimes violent moments to those more aptly characterized as individual quests for spiritual and physical therapy—as varying themes in the same story: the pursuit of wellness in the context of malady. On a more practical level, the book raises important questions about the project of writing histories of places like eastern Congo: a region where the repercussions of decades of political neglect, upheaval, and violence force us to reconsider how we can think about and use oral and archival sources. Finally, the book investigates the embodied and gendered nature of field research and interrogates the intersubjective and reciprocal nature of knowledge production.https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/1024/thumbnail.jp

AIUCD 2021 - Book of Extended Abstracts

Il decimo convegno annuale dell'Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale ha nell’edizione 2021 un titolo peculiare e importante: "DH per la società: e-guaglianza, partecipazione, diritti e valori nell’era digitale". Questo volume raccoglie gli abstract estesi e sottoposti a review per la conferenza di AIUCD2021 tenutasi in forma virtuale a Pisa

BRIDGE: The Heritage of Connecting Places and Cultures, Conference Proceedings

Official Conference Proceedings for the international conference BRIDGE: The Heritage of Connecting Places and Cultures (6-10 July 2017, Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site, UK) Organised by the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage, University of Birmingham, and the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust