Cryptography and Computer Security

Dear Colleagues,

With the rapid development of cloud computing, edge computing, big data, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and mobile communication technologies, the development of novel computing platforms, network architectures, and application patterns has increased. However, security issues have become an obstacle to these technologies. The core technology to solve the security problem is cryptography. At present, cryptography has been widely used in various security applications. However, the emergence of quantum computers has brought serious challenges to current key public cryptography. At the same time, many resource-constrained computing platforms have a great demand for lightweight cryptography algorithms. In addition, vulnerabilities in many computing platforms and protocols have also led to attacks on various applications. How to propose more effective anti-quantum cryptography algorithms, lightweight cryptography algorithms, and countermeasures against the vulnerabilities of computer platforms and their protocols has become a challenging problem.

This Special Issue focuses on novel cryptographic algorithms and protocols, computer security and protocol security issues, and all efforts to investigate and address these challenges in current new computing environments.

In particular, topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Post-quantum cryptography and its applications;
• Post-quantum cryptographic protocols;
• Post-quantum blockchain technology;
• Post-quantum data access control technology;
• Post-quantum searchable encryption;
• Post-quantum secure multi-party computing technology;
• Post-quantum secure storage audit technology;
• Cryptographic protocol analysis and side channel attack;
• Lightweight key distribution for IoT environments;
• Lightweight cryptographic algorithms and cryptographic protocols;
• Lightweight end-to-end anonymous communication protocol;
• Computer system security;
• Computer system anomaly detection;
• Edge computing equipment for APT detection and protection;
• Cloud computing intrusion detection;
• SDN/CDN system and protocol security.

Dr. Jiawei Zhang
Dr. Teng Li
Guest Editors

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• applied cryptography
• post-quantum cryptography
• lightweight cryptography
• computer security
• anomaly detection
• edge computing security
• cloud computing security