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Recent Advances in Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography

This special issue belongs to the section “E1: Mathematics and Computer Science“.

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In the last decade, the mathematics behind security and privacy has seen great advances both in theories and in applications, e.g., new formal models to support blockchains, new flavours of zero-knowledge to fuel cryptocurrencies, and a boost in privacy research of various kinds driven by contact-tracing applications. In this Special Issue, we are particularly looking for your submissions on the mathematical foundations of these timely matters of security and privacy, which have sparked our interest via the recent technological and ICT trends. However, we do not wish to restrict the Special Issue to these particular use cases, but rather encourage submissions, specifically on foundational aspects, on all that may constitute recent matters of security and privacy.

Assoc. Prof. Ioana Boureanu
Prof. Dr. Liqun Chen
Guest Editors

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Keywords

Anonymity
Application security
Applied cryptography
Attacks and defences
Attestation
Authentication
Blockchains and distributed ledger security
Cloud security
Cyber physical systems security
Distributed systems security
Economics of security and privacy
Embedded systems security
Forensics
Hardware security
Intrusion detection and prevention
Mobile and web security and privacy
Machine learning and AI security
Network and systems security
Privacy technologies and mechanisms
Privacy formalisms
Protocol security
Secure information flow
Security and privacy for the Internet of Things
Security and privacy metrics
Security and privacy policies
Security architectures
Usable security and privacy
Trustworthy computing
Web security

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