Digital Signature and Cryptography: Latest Advances and Prospects
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 2919
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Interests: computer science; information security
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Dear Colleagues,
Today, digital signatures, as a major and successful application of cryptography, play an essential role in business processes representing the intention of signers. We now see a number of enterprise applications and products that leverage digital signatures in a workflow. Multi-signatures, group signatures, and BBS+ signatures are now within the scope of deployment to handle complicated workflows and business scenarios. Furthermore, in terms of integrity, digital signature technology is fundamental in guaranteeing the integrity of blockchains. Verifiable credentials essentially use digital signatures to claim their integrity. Digital signatures are now studied to extend to apply to new application fields and new cryptography, including lattice cryptography. In this Special Issue, reflecting this growing significance of digital signatures in theory and application scenarios, papers discussing latest advances and prospects of digital signatures in theory and applications are called for.
Dr. Hiroyuki Sato
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- digital signature
- multi signature
- group signature
- BBS+ signature
- blockchain
- verifiable credentials
- business process management
- workflow
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