Recent Progress of Information Security and Cryptography
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 2327
Special Issue Editor
Interests: information security; cryptography; cryptanalysis
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Dear Colleagues,
Recent advances in quantum computing has led to the consideration of alternatives for most techniques and cryptographic algorithms used in cybersecurity and, particularly, in information security; this is largely due to the application of quantum techniques, based mainly on Shor’s factorization algorithm which challenges the standards of public key cryptosystems and digital signatures that then allow, respectively, key encapsulation methods and authentication. To this end, several algorithms that could be used as substitutes in the near future have been announced by NIST, although some others are still to be revealed.
However, many other cryptographic techniques are used in different ambits, such as confidential group communications, distributed computing, blockchain, or steganography, which could adapt to new security requirements.
The aim of this Special Issue is to explore the recent solutions in the community that can overcome menace-derived attacks based on quantum computing. These emerging methods can be derived from chaos theory, fractal geometry, metaheuristic methods, genetic algorithms, artificial intelligence, or new algebraic applications such as those related to problems that appear to be quantum-resistant, such as those recommended by NIST, including hash-based cryptography, code-based cryptography, and lattice-based cryptography.
However, new proposals of algorithms or methods concerning information security are of interest, as well as new techniques, derived, for example, from these advances in quantum computing or applied algebra in order to analyze the security of existing methods, algorithms, or protocols.
Prof. Dr. Juan Antonio López Ramos
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- public key cryptography
- cryptographic protocols
- cryptanalysis
- post-quantum cryptography
- coded-based cryptography
- chaos theory
- steganography
- lattice-based cryptography
- hash-based cryptography
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