Applied Cryptography and Information Security with Application
A special issue of Mathematics (ISSN 2227-7390).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 October 2025 | Viewed by 108
Special Issue Editor
2. School of Computer and Information Engineering, Henan University, Kaifeng, China
Interests: artificial intelligence; deep learning; information security; image processing; compressed sensing; computer vision
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is currently convenient to share or upload digital multimedia (image, video, audio, etc.) to websites and social media networks due to the widespread adoption of smart devices and high-speed networks. However, such data may be downloaded and illegally shared without preserving the copyright and privacy of the content owner or producer. Hence, how to protect multimedia data against unauthorized access, illegal usage, and malicious tampering is still a great challenge. Designing efficient, secure, and robust techniques, such as cryptosystems, steganography, watermarking, and so forth, becomes crucial for safeguarding the security of multimedia.
Flourishing techniques such as big data, IoT, 5G, and cloud computing are revolutionizing our lives. Along with rapid development of the new generation of information technology, security and privacy for multimedia data have caused great concern. Thus, it is pertinent to explore the applications of security techniques in the IoT, 5G, cloud computing, etc. The aim of this Special Issue is to collect papers that devise cryptographic algorithms, steganography, digital watermarking, hash functions and message authentication, digital signature technology, key management technology, and identity authentication technology and their application methods, such as those related to pre-quantum and post-quantum cryptography, IoT security, and cryptographic protocols and implementations.
Prof. Dr. Xiangjun Wu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- multimedia encryption and authentication
- post-quantum cryptographic algorithms
- deep learning-based cryptographic algorithms
- image/video steganography
- deep learning-based cryptoanalysis
- deep learning-based steganalysis
- cryptography applied to IoT
- cryptographic methods for 5G
- security algorithms in the cloud
- privacy protection for big data
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