Dear Colleagues,

As we gradually move toward Industry 5.0, which is envisioned as a complex network integrating information technology and massive industrial production processes, the need to protect security-critical systems from unauthorized access becomes imperative. However, due to the proliferation of massive devices in such a complex system, designing a secure user authentication scheme for achieving the desired forward secrecy poses several challenges. The preliminary authentication schemes have not addressed the problem by considering the resource-limited sensor nodes. Most of these schemes have not provided forward secrecy, and only a few achieve forward secrecy at high computational costs. Generally, the sensor nodes deployed in a typical industrial setting are resource-limited devices. In particular, their storage and computation resources are limited. Additionally, sensitive user data in the industry 5.0 applications need to be well secured from a multitude of sophisticated adversaries that proliferate cyber-space. As a result, it becomes expedient to authenticate and secure sensitive user information transmitted via sensor nodes from all intruders. In order to achieve this objective, a suitable authentication protocol and a session key are desirable to grant access to only the authorized users of the application. Cryptography relies on mathematics and logic to design strong security schemes. Modern cryptography and information security emphasize the mathematics behind the theory of these cryptosystems. This Special Issue calls for original contributions to designing and developing advanced mathematical cryptographic schemes for information security toward Industry 5.0.

The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Advanced mathematical cryptography in the Industry 5.0 era.
• Information security in Industry 5.0 for societal good.
• Sustainable cryptographic models for secured systems in Industry 5.0.
• Secured digital twins enabling smart systems in Industry 5.0.
• Novel security architectures for smart systems in Industry 5.0.
• Lightweight authentication schemes based on extended Chebyshev chaotic maps.
• Machine learning aiding the design and development of advanced cryptographic schemes for information security.
• Security and privacy challenges for designing and developing advanced cryptographic schemes for information security toward Industry 5.0.
• Experimentation and deployment of advanced cryptographic schemes for information security.
• Machine learning and blockchain technology enabling the design of novel advanced cryptographic schemes and information security.
• Case studies and recommendations for designing and developing advanced cryptographic schemes for information security.

This Special Issue will provide novel contributions that will drive cutting-edge research, leading to the development of advanced mathematical cryptography and information security toward Industry 5.0. Quality submissions from academia and industry are highly welcome.

Prof. Dr. Cheng-Chi Lee
Dr. Dinh-Thuan Do
Guest Editors

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• cryptography
• lightweight schemes
• energy-efficient protocols
• authentication
• information security
• forward secrecy
• wireless sensor nodes
• biometrics
• machine learning
• Internet of Things
• blockchain technology
• security and privacy
• chaotic communications
• artificial intelligence
• Industry 5.0
• wireless security systems
• discrete logarithms
• factorization algorithms
• probability theory
• collision algorithms
• lattice-based cryptography
• chaos-based cryptography