Information Security is usually achieved through a mix of technical, organizational and legal measures. These may include the application of cryptography, the hierarchical modeling of organizations in order to assure confidentiality, or the distribution of accountability and responsibility by law, among interested parties.

The history of Information Security reaches back to ancient times and starts with the emergence of bureaucracy in administration and warfare. Some aspects, such as the interception of encrypted messages during World War II, have attracted huge attention, whereas other...

Demonstrates that the concept of an instruction sequence offers a useful viewpoint on issues relating to diverse subjects in computer science. This title investigates selected issues relating to well-known subjects from the theory of computation and the area of computer architecture in terms of a common model of computation.