Internet Denial of Service: Attack and Defense Mechanisms

Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank Radia Perlman from Sun Microsystem Laboratories, and Mary Franz and her colleagues at Prentice Hall for their support and assistance in producing this book. Radia and Mary were instrumental in encouraging us to write the book and getting Prentice Hall to commit to its publication.

The authors also wish to thank distinguished researchers and practitioners in the network security community who reviewed this book: Steven M. Bellovin from AT&T Labs, Angelos D. Keromytis from Columbia University, Giovanni Vigna from the University of California at Santa Barbara, Cat Okita from Earthworks, Kevin Fu from MIT, Warwick Ford from Wyltan, Inc., Harlan Carvey, and Howard Lipson from the CERT Coordination Center. ...