Secure User Authentication With Information Theoretic Security Using Secret Sharing-Based Secure Computation by Keiichi Iwamura, Ahmad Akmal Aminuddin Mohd Kamal

“…Studies are also ongoing on post-quantum cryptography, although they require significant computational resources and are challenging to implement in Internet of Things (IoT) devices. …”
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Two-party cooperative blind signature based on SM2 by Xue BAI, Baodong QIN, Rui GUO, Dong ZHENG

“…SM2, issued by China in 2010, is a public key cryptography standard based on elliptic curves.It has been widely used in finance, social security and other fields thanks to its advantages of improved signature efficiency, decreased storage space and computing complexity than RSA.With the popularization and application of SM2, the issues of its key security and data privacy are of great concern.The single-key mode inhibits the potential application in multi-user settings, and the leakage of the key will threaten the security of the entire cryptosystem due to the centralization.The problem of secure storage and reasonable utilization of keys needs to be solved urgently.In addition, the SM2 digital signature algorithm cannot guarantee the message privacy.Aiming at the issues of key security and data privacy of the signature algorithm, many researchers have proposed the idea of cooperative signature and blind signature for SM2.However, there isn’t SM2 collaborative blind signature scheme proposed.Then a two-party cooperative blind signing protocol based on SM2 was proposed in this paper, which allowed two parties to sign except the user.The signing process did not require recovering the complete private key, while not revealing the information of the partial private key and secret number.The key was stored separately to improve the security of the key, while the blind signature protected the privacy of the message.In terms of security, the protocol satisfied unforgeability and unlinkability.The protocol was implemented using C to demonstrate the efficiency of each participant’s local operation.In the honest model, the time cost of each entity in the cooperative signature phase was similar as that of executing a lightweight SM2 blind signature.Overall, the proposed protocol has certain advantages in terms of function and efficiency.…”
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Secure controlling method for scalable botnets by Qiang LIU, Pengfei LI, Zhangjie FU

“…., internet of things (IoT) devices.Future botnets will become more cross-platform and stealthy, which introduces severe security risks to cyberspace.Therefore, in-depth research on botnets can offer study targets to corresponding defensive studies, which is very meaningful for designing an architecture to secure the next-generation cyberspace.Hence, an HTTP-based scalable botnet framework was proposed to address the problems of compatibility, stealthiness and security.Specifically, the framework adopted a centralized controlling model.Moreover, it used the HTTP protocol as the designed botnet’s communication protocol and block encryption mechanisms based on symmetric cryptography to protect the botnet’s communication contents.Furthermore, a secure control mechanism for multi-platform botnets was designed.In particular, the proposed mechanism utilized source-level code integration and cross-compilation techniques to solve the compatibility challenge.It also introduced encrypted communication with dynamic secret keys to overcome the drawbacks of network traffic regularity and ease of analysis in traditional botnets.Moreover, it designed server migration and reconnection mechanisms to address the weakness of single-point-failure in centralized botnet models.Simulation results in three experimental scenarios with different levels of botnet controllability show that there is a linear relationship between the size of a botnet and the service overhead of the related C＆amp;C servers.In addition, under the condition of the same botnet scale, a higher level of controllability introduces a higher throughput and a greater system overhead.The above results demonstrate the effectiveness and the practical feasibility of the proposed method.…”
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Adaptable Security in Wireless Sensor Networks by Using Reconfigurable ECC Hardware Coprocessors by J. Portilla, A. Otero, E. de la Torre, T. Riesgo, O. Stecklina, S. Peter, P. Langendörfer

“…In order to avoid dependencies on a compromised level of security, a WSN node with a microcontroller and a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is used along this work to implement a state-of-the art solution based on ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography). In this paper it is described how the reconfiguration possibilities of the system can be used to adapt ECC parameters in order to increase or reduce the security level depending on the application scenario or the energy budget. …”
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Legal Aspects of Telepathology by Christian Dierks

“…Generally speaking, the principles of minimum data exchange, anonymity, pseudonymity and cryptography must be established as a basis for all telepathology procedures. …”
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Quantum secure patient login credential system using blockchain for electronic health record sharing framework by M. Natarajan, A. Bharathi, C. Sai Varun, Shitharth Selvarajan

“…The proposed scheme has been included for block encryption with the symmetric and asymmetric cryptography algorithms with respect to the hospital server and patients. …”
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Dual-Mode Encryption for UC-Secure String OT from Learning with Errors by Momeng Liu, Yupu Hu, Qiqi Lai, Shanshan Zhang, Huiwen Jia, Wen Gao, Baocang Wang

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Testing the Strength of Chaotic Systems as Seeds in a Pseudo Random Bit Generator by Lazaros Moysis, Marcin Lawnik, Christos Volos, Murilo S. Baptista, Sotirios K. Goudos, George F. Fragulis

“…Chaotic random bit generators have become an integral part of chaotic cryptography and other data protection applications, where they are used as sources of deterministic randomness, to secure an information signal. …”
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Cybersecurity Solutions for Industrial Internet of Things–Edge Computing Integration: Challenges, Threats, and Future Directions by Tamara Zhukabayeva, Lazzat Zholshiyeva, Nurdaulet Karabayev, Shafiullah Khan, Noha Alnazzawi

“…The review emphasizes the integration of advanced security technologies, including machine learning (ML), federated learning (FL), blockchain, blockchain–ML, deep learning (DL), encryption, cryptography, IT/OT convergence, and digital twins, as essential for enhancing the security and real-time data protection of CPS in IIoT–edge computing. …”
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A Pipelined Hardware Design of FNTT and INTT of CRYSTALS-Kyber PQC Algorithm by Muhammad Rashid, Omar S. Sonbul, Sajjad Shaukat Jamal, Amar Y. Jaffar, Azamat Kakhorov

“…Lattice-based post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms demand number theoretic transform (NTT)-based polynomial multiplications. …”
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Integrating sustainability into cybersecurity: insights from machine learning based topic modeling by Krishnashree Achuthan, Sriram Sankaran, Swapnoneel Roy, Raghu Raman

“…Moreover, ensuring cybersecurity in these interconnected networks demands the use of technologies such as resource-intensive cryptography and advanced intrusion detection systems. …”
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SYNTHESIS METHODS OF ALGEBRAIC NORMAL FORM OF MANY-VALUED LOGIC FUNCTIONS by A. V. Sokolov, O. N. Zhdanov, O. A. Ayvazian

“…The rapid development of methods of error-correcting coding, cryptography, and signal synthesis theory based on the principles of many-valued logic determines the need for a more detailed study of the forms of representation of functions of many-valued logic. …”
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A Compact Multi-Identity Fully Homomorphic Encryption Scheme Without Fresh Ciphertexts by Ziwei Wang, Ruwei Huang, Xiyi Wei

“…The lattice-based multi-identity fully homomorphic encryption scheme combines the quantum security of lattice cryptography with the advantage of identity-based encryption. …”
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A SYNTHESIS METHOD OF BASIC TERNARY BENT-SQUARES BASED ON THE TRIAD SHIFT OPERATOR by O. N. Zhdanov, A. V. Sokolov

“…Practical application of advanced algebraic constructions in modern communication systems based on MC-CDMA (Multi Code Code Division Multiple Access) technology and in cryptography necessitates their further research. One of the most commonly used advanced algebraic construction is the binary bent-function having a uniform amplitude spectrum of the Walsh-Hadamard transform and, accordingly, having the maximal distance from the codewords of affine code. …”
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Novel fingerprint key generation method based on the trimmed mean of feature distance by Zhongtian JIA, Qinglong QIN, Li MA, Lizhi PENG

“…In recent years, biometrics has become widely adopted in access control systems, effectively resolving the challenges associated with password management in identity authentication.However, traditional biometric-based authentication methods often lead to the loss or leakage of users’ biometric data, compromising the reliability of biometric authentication.In the literature, two primary technical approaches have been proposed to address these issues.The first approach involves processing the extracted biometric data in a way that the authentication information used in the final stage or stored in the database does not contain the original biometric data.The second approach entails writing the biometric data onto a smart card and utilizing the smart card to generate the private key for public key cryptography.To address the challenge of constructing the private key of a public key cryptosystem based on fingerprint data without relying on a smart card, a detailed study was conducted on the stable feature points and stable feature distances of fingerprints.This study involved the extraction and analysis of fingerprint minutiae.Calculation methods were presented for sets of stable feature points, sets of equidistant stable feature points, sets of key feature points, and sets of truncated means.Based on the feature distance truncated mean, an original fingerprint key generation algorithm and key update strategy were proposed.This scheme enables the reconstruction of the fingerprint key through re-collecting fingerprints, without the need for direct storage of the key.The revocation and update of the fingerprint key were achieved through a salted hash function, which solved the problem of converting ambiguous fingerprint data into precise key data.Experiments prove that the probability of successfully reconstructing the fingerprint key by re-collecting fingerprints ten times is 0.7354, and the probability of reconstructing the fingerprint key by re-collecting fingerprints sixty times is 98.06%.…”
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A Cryptographic Scheme for Construction of Substitution Boxes Using Quantic Fractional Transformation by Abid Mahboob, Muhammad Asif, Muhammad Nadeem, Aysha Saleem, Sayed M. Eldin, Imran Siddique

“…In the new era of cryptography, Substitution Boxes (S-Boxes) are very important to raise confusion in cipher text and the security of encryption directly depends on the algebraic strength of S-box. …”
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A Novel Security Methodology for Smart Grids: A Case Study of Microcomputer-Based Encryption for PMU Devices by Metin Varan, Akif Akgul, Fatih Kurugollu, Ahmet Sansli, Kim Smith

“…The success of results is evaluated by the completeness of data exchange, durations, the complexity of encryption-decryption processes, and strength of cryptography using a microcomputer-based implementation. …”
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QuantumNet: An enhanced diabetic retinopathy detection model using classical deep learning-quantum transfer learning by Manish Bali, Ved Prakash Mishra, Anuradha Yenkikar, Diptee Chikmurge

“…Quantum computing, leveraging quantum mechanics, offers revolutionary potential for faster problem-solving across fields like cryptography, optimization, and medicine. This research introduces QuantumNet, a hybrid model combining classical DL and quantum transfer learning to enhance DR detection. …”
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High-performance reconfigurable encryption scheme for distributed storage by Zhihua FENG, Yuxuan ZHANG, Chong LUO, Jianing WANG

“…As the world embraces the digital economy and enters an information society, data has emerged as a critical production factor.The collection, processing, and storage of data have become increasingly prevalent.Distributed storage systems, known for their efficiency, are widely used in various data fields.However, as the scale of data storage continues to expand, distributed storage faces more significant security risks, such as information leakage and data destruction.These challenges drive the need for innovative advancements in big data distributed storage security technology and foster the integration of domestic cryptographic technology with computing storage technology.This work focused on addressing security issues, particularly information leakage, in distributed storage nodes.A dynamic and reconfigurable encryption storage solution was proposed, which considered the requirements for encryption performance and flexibility.A high-performance reconfigurable cryptographic module was designed based on the bio mapping framework.Based on this module, multiple storage pools equipped with different cryptographic algorithms were constructed to facilitate high-performance encryption and decryption operations on hard disk data.The scheme also enabled dynamic switching of cryptographic algorithms within the storage pools.A cryptographic protocol with remote online loading functions for cryptographic algorithms and keys was developed to meet the unified management and convenient security update requirements of reconfigurable cryptographic modules in various storage nodes.Furthermore, the scheme implemented fine-grained data encryption protection and logical security isolation functions based on cryptographic reconstruction technology.Experimental results demonstrate that the performance loss of this scheme for encryption protection and security isolation of stored data is approximately 10%.It provides a technical approach for distributed storage systems to meet the cryptographic application technology requirements outlined in GB/T 39786-2021 “Information Security Technology-Basic Requirements for Cryptography Applications” Level 3 and above in terms of device and computing security, application and data security.…”
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Aggregation Scheme with Secure Hierarchical Clustering for Wireless Sensor Networks by Tung-Shih Su, Mei-Wen Huang, Wei-Shou Li, Wen-Shyong Hsieh

“…Due to our IP naming rules and type 1 nodes as cluster heads, public key cryptography, such as RSA (Rivest, Shamir, Adleman), or ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem), is easily implanted to our system to strengthen our security. …”
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