This book offers the first comprehensive overview of contemporary systems for secure electronic/digital postage. It introduces a taxonomy of electronic postage systems and explains their security risks and countermeasures. The underlying cryptographic mechanisms are introduced and explained, and the industrial-scale electronic postage systems existing worldwide are sorted out with respect to this taxonomy. The author also discusses privacy and anonymous mail, the state of standardization of electronic postage, and the process of security evaluation and testing of electronic postage systems.

Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.

The EDBOK explains industry processes and technologies using a standard vocabulary. The topics follow two common timelines: 1) The day-to-day Production Workflow, which covers ten production job-steps that every document goes through, from Data to Doorstep. 2) The long-term Document Lifecycle, which covers the life of a document and includes requirements gathering, business-casing, development, and ongoing production.

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