1SOC Symposium on Network and Distributed System Securit y Dan Nessett Lawrence Livermore National Laborator y On February 3-4, 1994, the Internet Society held its first Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security i n San Diego, California . The Symposium was a follow-on to the PSRG Workshop held in February, 1993 . Attracting 23 4 participants, the Symposium provided the opportunity for researchers, practitioners and users to hear of new work an d to discuss current trends, proposals and practice . The Symposium program consisted of 8 single-track sessions, 3 o f which were panels and the remaining 5 of which were paper presentations . The first session of the Symposium was on "Electronic Mail Security ." Chaired by Steve Kent (BBN), it consisted of three paper presentations . Alireza Bahreman (Bellcore) and Doug Tygar (Carnegie Mellon University) authored the first paper of the sessio n entitled, "Certified Electronic Mail ." It was presented by Bahreman . Certified Electronic Mail allows users to exchang e information allowing one or the other to prove email transmission and receipt . For example, the sender of an emai l message can prove it was received by a given user and
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