Symmetry and Asymmetry in Securing Data Sharing

Dear Colleagues,

Data sharing can promote information exchange and help people to gain better insights into the world around us. It has become an increasingly important topic in both academia and the business world. For example, on November 25^th 2021, the Shanghai Data Exchange opened for trading, aiming to find new economic growth in the big data era. However, security mechanisms are indispensable for guaranteeing effective data sharing, e.g., secure transmission, fine grained access control, data authentication, privacy preserving computations, etc.

This Special Issue aims to publish a collection of papers on recent developments in data sharing using symmetric and asymmetric techniques. The topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, symmetric and asymmetric ciphers, privacy preserving, verifiable computations, authenticated key exchanges, database security, big data security, cloud computing security, security in social networks, digital forensics, and security architectures.

All interested researchers are kindly invited to contribute to this Special Issue. All submitted papers should be within the general scope of Symmetry.

Dr. Zhe Xia
Dr. Yanwei Zhou
Prof. Dr. Yining Liu
Guest Editors

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