Emerging Trends in Network Security and Applied Cryptography
A special issue of Computers (ISSN 2073-431X). This special issue belongs to the section "ICT Infrastructures for Cybersecurity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 812
Special Issue Editors
Interests: trustworthy artificial intelligence; deep learning security and privacy protection; data security and privacy protection; applied cryptography and provable security; security and privacy risk evaluation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the development of information technologies, such as Internet, big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence, the network has penetrated into all aspects of daily life, such as social interaction, online shopping, mobile payment, online medical services, smart home, and AI services.
It is undeniable that the network has indeed brought us a lot of convenience, but there are also various network information security risks, such as data leakage, identity theft, network vulnerabilities, and denial of service. As the key core technology to ensure network information security, applied cryptography plays a vital role in data protection, identity verification, message authentication, and access control, etc. Therefore, through in-depth analysis of the existing network information security risks, enhancing the protection ability of applied cryptography in network information security is a crucial topic.
This Special Issue aims to cover recent advancements in the network security and privacy risk analysis, network security and privacy defense, and applied cryptography and provable security. Both review articles and original research are welcome. Typical topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Network security and privacy;
- Big data security and privacy;
- Cloud computing security and privacy;
- Trustworthy artificial intelligence;
- Machine learning security and privacy;
- Deep learning security and privacy;
- Federated learning security and privacy;
- Blockchain security and privacy;
- Applied cryptography and provable security;
- Post-quantum cryptography;
- Privacy-enhancing computation;
- Security and privacy risk evaluation;
- Trusted execution environment based zero trust model;
- Trustworthy networks management and computing;
- Internet-of-Things security and privacy;
- Usable security and privacy metrics.
Dr. Hai Liu
Dr. Feng Tian
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- security and privacy risk analysis
- network security
- privacy protection
- applied cryptography
- trustworthy computing
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