Special Issue "Cryptography and Blockchain Technologies—Present Applications and Future Researches"
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science and Symmetry/Asymmetry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2023 | Viewed by 1131
Special Issue Editors
Interests: modeling, design, and analysis of cyber-physical systems; concurrent control systems; Petri nets; programmable devices; FPGAs; hardware description languages (Verilog, VHDL); cryptography and cryptology (prime numbers, RSA numbers, factorization, development of algorithms, OTP-based ciphers)
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2. Department of CSE, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Vaddeswaram 522502, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India
Interests: applied cryptography and cryptanalysis (RSA and AES and related ciphers); end-to-end (E2E) secure communication, peer to peer (P2P) communication and security aspects; information systems efficiency; lightweight and security aspects; blockchain applications and security aspects and software testing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is focused on the state of the art of development and research on cryptography and blockchain technologies. Cryptographic and blockchain techniques have been recognized as of top importance for security, privacy, and a large number of applications within cyberspace. Symmetry plays an important role in cryptography and blockchain techniques, and several hot topics have emerged: symmetric key encryption, symmetric key authentication, security evaluation of symmetric key cryptographic primitives, blockchain consensus protocols, blockchain for integrity and authenticity control.
Some suggested areas for focus are provided below, but the Issue’s scope is not restricted to these. We solicit recent application-based research on cryptography and blockchain technologies. Review papers are also welcome that address new directions in these domains and tracks.
Cryptography Tracks
- Cryptographic tools for network security and privacy protection.
- Homomorphic encryption.
- Novel cryptographic protocols.
- Cryptanalysis (classical and quantum) and deanonymization.
- Machine learning and cryptography.
- Recent advances on applied cryptography for information and communication networks.
- Hardware implementations of cryptographic algorithms.
- Quantum cryptography and standardization efforts in quantum resistant cryptography;
- Code-based, lattice-based, hash-based, isogeny-based, multivariate cryptography.
- Attacks on post-quantum cryptosystems and security models for post-quantum cryptography.
- Fuzzy cryptography, PUFs, and biometrics.
- Cryptographic solutions in supply chain security.
- Lightweight cryptography for CPS, IoT, IoMT and IoE.
- Security and anonymity for 5G/6G mobile networks.
- Searchable encryption and privacy-preserving data mining for cloud technologies.
Performance, Security and Privacy Aspects
- Security Token offering.
- Tokenized security.
- Zero-knowledge proof (ZKP).
- Security, privacy, and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology.
- Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff of blockchain technology.
- Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain and security aspects.
Blockchain Tracks
- Present technologies and architectures.
- Advanced blockchain-based systems and architectures.
- Trends in blockchain technologies.
- Future blockchain-based use cases.
- Performance, security and privacy aspects.
Prof. Dr. Remigiusz Wiśniewski
Prof. Dr. Aniruddha Bhattacharjya
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- symmetric key encryption
- symmetric key authentication
- homomorphic encryption
- novel cryptographic protocols
- cryptanalysis
- deanonymization
- quantum cryptography
- code-based cryptography
- lattice-based cryptography
- hash-based cryptography
- isogeny-based cryptography
- multivariate cryptography
- fuzzy cryptography
- lightweight cryptography
- blockchain and networking protocols (IPv4 vs. IPv6)
- blockchain as a service (BaaS)
- distributed ledger technology (DLT) architectures
- blockchain cybersecurity and privacy
- zero-knowledge proof (ZKP)
