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HVAC Control in the New Millenniumting user profiles, managing cookies and filtering content. Secure digitalsignatures and certificates are handled along with encryption for limitingthe amount of information revealed.There will be further development of security architectures andapproaches by groups such as the World Wide Web Consortium’s Platformfor Privacy Preferences.Security levels are used to automate a user’s interaction with Websites through compliant browsers, plug-ins, or servers. Intel has developedthe Common Data Security Architecture (CDSA). This is a set ofapplication programming interfaces (APIs) designed to make computerplatforms more secure.The growth of smart cards indicates their acknowledgment as securitydevices. A smart card can be used with passwords or biometricdata to protect access to data. The digital identity is embedded in thechip on the card. In the future, those chips will be embedded in clothesand perhaps eventually in our bodies.Public key encryption-based digital certificates now have limiteduse in browsers. These will become more common in the future. Theycan be used by almost any program and will be a feature of most smartcard identity systems.Authentication card software includes Security Dynamics SecureID program and freeware programs from Trip Wire, Crack, COPS andTCP Wrapper. IBM’s Keyworks is designed for public-key infrastructureservices including cryptography. Lotus Notes uses Keyworks. IBM alsohas its Network firewall for Windows NT.Random Number GenerationRandom number generators provide results that may appear to berandom, but they are actually pseudo-random numbers generated by acalculation such as the Lewis-Goodman-Miller generator. This meansthat over a period of time a pattern will emerge in the numbers that arecomputer picks. That can cause trouble when these numbers are used insecurity schemes.Random numbers are fundamental to computer security, since theyare used to generate security keys that prevent breaking into on-linesystems. Given enough time the intruder can trace a pattern and replicatea key.©2001 by The Fairmont Press, Inc. All rights reserved.