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Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce this Special Issue of the journal Mathematics entitled “Advanced Research on Information System Security and Privacy, 2nd Edition”. As new technologies emerge and threats become more sophisticated, there is a constant need for advanced research and innovative solutions to safeguard sensitive information and ensure user privacy. The main topics of this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following: information systems security, privacy-preserving technologies, cryptography and security, digital forensics, artificial intelligence security, and adversarial explainable AI.

With the pervasive presence of information technology and the Internet, understanding the complexities of information security and privacy has become a global concern. The escalating volume of digital information processed online has led to a significant rise in breaches and hacks, underscoring the need for a trustworthy and secure cyberspace. This Special Issue aims to address these challenges by providing a forum for a diverse audience to discuss how to mitigate information risks, stay abreast of the latest developments, and publish a range of articles that cater to a broad cross-sectoral and multi-disciplinary readership. We encourage submissions that explore topics such as cryptography, machine learning, and other innovative approaches to achieve robust security measures.

Dr. Zhaoquan Gu
Dr. Jianxin Li
Guest Editors

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Keywords

information systems security
privacy-preserving technologies for information systems
secure communication for information systems
cryptography and security
situational awareness analysis of information systems
threat detection and access control
digital forensics
artificial intelligence security for information systems
adversarial attacks and defenses in deep-learning-based information systems
adversarial explainable AI
security evaluation of information systems

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Lightweight and Security-Enhanced Key Agreement Protocol Using PUF for IoD Environments

by Sangjun Lee, Seunghwan Son and Youngho Park

Mathematics 2025, 13(13), 2062; https://doi.org/10.3390/math13132062 - 21 Jun 2025

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With the increasing demand for drones in diverse tasks, the Internet of Drones (IoD) has recently emerged as a significant technology in academia and industry. The IoD environment enables various services, such as traffic and environmental monitoring, disaster situation management, and military operations. However, IoD communication is vulnerable to security threats due to the exchange of sensitive information over insecure public channels. Moreover, public key-based cryptographic schemes are impractical for communication with resource-constrained drones due to their limited computational capability and resource capacity. Therefore, a secure and lightweight key agreement scheme must be developed while considering the characteristics of the IoD environment. In 2024, Alzahrani proposed a secure key agreement protocol for securing the IoD environment. However, Alzahrani’s protocol suffers from high computational overhead due to its reliance on elliptic curve cryptography and is vulnerable to drone and mobile user impersonation attacks and session key disclosure attacks by eavesdropping on public-channel messages. Therefore, this work proposes a lightweight and security-enhanced key agreement scheme for the IoD environment to address the limitations of Alzahrani’s protocol. The proposed protocol employs a physical unclonable function and simple cryptographic operations (XOR and hash functions) to achieve high security and efficiency. This work demonstrates the security of the proposed protocol using informal security analysis. This work also conducted formal security analysis using the Real-or-Random (RoR) model, Burrows–Abadi–Needham (BAN) logic, and Automated Verification of Internet Security Protocols and Applications (AVISPA) simulation to verify the proposed protocol’s session key security, mutual authentication ability, and resistance to replay and MITM attacks, respectively. Furthermore, this work demonstrates that the proposed protocol offers better performance and security by comparing the computational and communication costs and security features with those of relevant protocols. Full article

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