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Satellite communication is the fastest way to get digital information from one geographic location to another, and encryption algorithms can help keep prying eyes from deriving any value from intercepted transmissions. Satellite Encryption explains the need for secure satellite communications, including ways of implementing them, and discusses their implications (in business, government, and warfare). Author John Vacca, an excellent writer whose prose is both packed with technical detail and fun to read, focuses on United States satellite encryption policies.
This is far more than a networking or government-policy text, though its contents have bearing upon wide area network (WAN) designers and legislators alike. Vacca explains the physics involved in getting a satellite into the most desirable orbit, the computing techniques used for cracking keys, and various key-escrow strategies (including Clipper).
In addition, there's a lot of background information on national security topics other than satellite encryption, including missile-defense satellites and the purchase of dangerous military surplus by terrorist groups. There's a somewhat breathless warning of year 2000 mayhem, but Vacca's approach is generally very deliberate and informative. --David Wall
Topics covered: The importance of secure satellite communications, government encryption policies, implementation of satellite encryption, information-theft techniques, use and abuse of key-escrow schemes, and the role of satellite encryption in the future of business and government.
Book Description
A step above any other book on satellite encryption, John Vacca presents a secure encrypted wireless environment encompassing direct satellite communications and land based communications links. Satellite Encryption will leave little doubt that a new world infrastructure in satellite communications and encryption is about to be constructed. The implications of the coming boom in satellites are revolutionary for those who do not have access to secure data in remote locations around the world. This book discusses how the new satellites (SubLEOs, LEOs, MEOs and GEOs) will carry encrypted high-speed voice calls from hand-held phones, and depending on the system, low and high speed data. Satellite Encryption begins by identifying the role of satellite encryption technology trends. It examines the pace the national cryptography policy must keep up with, the political environment, and the significant changes in the post-Cold War environment that call attention to the need for and the impact that a cryptography policy would have domestically and internationally. The instruments and goals of the current U.S. satellite encryption policy and some of the issues raised by that policy are discussed, as well as development, implementation, and management of advanced satellite encryption options and strategies that will forever change the way organizations do business.
Book Info
Provides a secure encrypted wireless environment encompassing direct satellite communications and land-based communications links. Discusses how the new satellites will carry encrypted high-speed voice calls from hand-held phones, and depending on the system, low and high speed data. Softcover.
About the Author
John R. Vacca is an information technology consultant and writer. The author of twenty-five books and more than 340 articles, his most recent titles include Internet Security Secrets, VRML, Official Netscape LiveWire Pro Book, VRML Clearly Explained, Second Edition, Intranet Security and The Cabling Handbook. John was a configuration management specialist, computer specialist, and computer security specialist for NASA's old space station system Freedom. He was the computer security official for the international space station until his early retirement from NASA in 1995.
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