Information Security and Cryptography, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 March 2025 | Viewed by 150
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cryptographic protocols; provable security; electronic voting
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Interests: theoretic cryptography; security in big data; security in industrial internet; secret sharing; multiparty computation; authentication and access control
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Information security refers to the technologies and processes that are employed to protect information in a potentially hostile environment. It is a growing and evolving field that covers a wide range of topics, from network and system security to testing and implementation. It is a critical factor in the growth of information-based processes in industry, business, and administration. In particular, cryptography plays a key role in achieving information security in communications, computer systems and electronic commerce.
This special Issue seeks submissions from academia, government, and industry that present novel research on all practical and theoretical aspects of information security and cryptography. This Special Issue particarly welcomes the submission of original, high-quality, unpublished research with a theoretical and practical impact, including concepts, techniques, applications, and practical experiments. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published previously or that have been simultaneously submitted to a journal or conference.
The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following topics related to information security and cryptography:
- Anonymity and privacy;
- Applied cryptography and implementations;
- Authentication, identification and access control;
- Authenticated key exchange;
- Block and stream ciphers;
- Complexity-theoretic cryptography;
- Cloud computing security;
- Cryptanalysis;
- Cryptocurrencies;
- Cryptographic hash functions;
- Cryptographic protocols;
- Database security;
- Digital forensics;
- Digital signatures and message authentication codes;
- Electronic voting;
- Formal methods;
- Information theoretic security;
- Key management;
- Network and web security;
- Privacy enhanced technologies;
- Privacy preserving computations;
- Public key encryption;
- Physical security;
- Security architectures and models;
- Security in biometric;
- Security in embedded systems;
- Security in distributed systems;
- Security in machine learning;
- Security in operation systems;
- Security in social networks;
- Software security.
Dr. Zhe Xia
Prof. Dr. Mingwu Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- information security
- cryptography
- digital forensics
- key management
- database security
- web security
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