The increasing demand for robust and efficient information security has led to the growing adoption of specialized hardware for cryptographic operations. In response to the rise in cyber threats and the need to process large volumes of data in real t...
The influence of redundant implementations on success of physical attacks against cryptographic devices is currently under-researched. This is especially an issue in application fields such as wearable health, industrial control systems and the like...
The security of cryptographic protocols has always been an important issue. Although there are various verification schemes of protocols in the literature, efficiently and accurately verifying cryptographic protocols is still a challenging research t...
Recent advances in machine learning have enabled highly effective ciphertext-based cryptographic algorithm identification, posing a potential threat to encrypted communication. Inspired by adversarial example techniques, we present CSPM (Class-Specif...
Nowadays, technological advances provide people with more facilities and luxuries in life. Medicine is no exception; for example, different wireless sensors can be used to monitor patients’ state of health. These sensors are used in the so-call...
This paper presents a probabilistic, multi-layered framework designed to forecast the longevity and security of cryptographic systems under the dual pressures of classical and quantum computational threats. The model integrates thermodynamic decay an...
An approach to the implementation of a neural network for real-time cryptographic data protection with symmetric keys oriented on embedded systems is presented. This approach is valuable, especially for onboard communication systems in unmanned aeria...
An approach for security enhancement of a class of encryption schemes is pointed out and its security is analyzed. The approach is based on certain results of coding and information theory regarding communication channels with erasures and deletion e...
Electronic voting requires the simultaneous admission of only legitimate participants, ballot uniqueness, vote confidentiality, storage integrity, and result verifiability. Blockchain alone does not solve these problems, since ledger immutability doe...
Software uses cryptography to provide confidentiality in communication and to provide authentication. Additionally, cryptographic algorithms can be used to protect software against cracking core algorithms in software implementation. Recently, malwar...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a very abundant source of data, as well as a source of many vulnerabilities. A significant challenge is preparing security solutions to protect IoT nodes’ resources and the data exchanged. The difficulty usually...
Organizations have been moving on-premises data functionalities to cloud storage environments. The need for advanced hybrid cryptography is deemed a promising solution for securing data on cloud storage. This scoping review explores the application o...
The integration of cryptographic algorithms like Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is pivotal in bolstering the core attributes of blockchain technology, especially in achieving decentralization, tamper resistan...
We propose an ultra-lightweight cryptographic scheme called “Small Lightweight Cryptographic Algorithm (SLA)”. The SLA relies on substitution–permutation network (SPN). It utilizes 64-bit plaintext and supports a key length of 80/12...
Achieving low-cost and high-performance network security communication is necessary for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, including intelligent sensors and mobile robots. Designing hardware accelerators to accelerate multiple computationally intensiv...
The traditional Internet has many security problems. It is difficult to guarantee the authenticity, integrity, and synchronization of message transmission, and it lacks a message-traceability mechanism, which is caused by its performance-oriented des...
In Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) environments, the security requirements of edge nodes change dynamically, whereas conventional cryptographic deployment relies on static configurations that require firmware upgrades or system reboots for algor...
Since their appearance at the dawn of the second millennium, Delay or Disruption Tolerant Networks (DTNs) have gradually evolved, spurring the development of a variety of methods and protocols for making them more secure and resilient. In this contex...
With the explosion of connected devices linked to one another, the amount of transmitted data grows day by day, posing new problems in terms of information security, such as unauthorized access to users’ credentials and sensitive information. T...
Practical failures of cryptographic key management rarely stem from weak algorithms: they arise from the difficulty users face in memorizing and reliably recalling high-entropy secrets. Password-based and brainwallet approaches collapse under selecti...
Federal post-quantum cryptography migration is scoped around three categories of cryptographic assets: libraries, protocols, and key stores. We argue that this scoping is incomplete. Cryptographic functions and key material can be realized in the par...
The rapid convergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), quantum computing, and artificial intelligence (AI) has amplified the urgency for lightweight yet resilient data protection mechanisms, particularly within unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Traditi...
This paper shows new card-based cryptographic protocols with the minimum number of rounds, using private operations under the semi-honest model. Physical cards are used in card-based cryptographic protocols instead of computers to achieve secure mult...
This study surveys some cryptographic algorithms in a detailed manner; it mainly focuses on symmetric key cryptography and asymmetric key cryptography with hash functions following them. Regarding the importance of cryptography for securing communica...
The rapid evolution of Internet of Things (IoT) applications, such as e-health and the smart ecosystem, has resulted in the emergence of numerous security flaws. Therefore, security protocols must be implemented among IoT network nodes to resist the...
Shift transformations are the fundamental operation of cryptographic algorithms, and the arithmetic unit implementing different types of shift transformations are utilized in the coarse-grain reconfigurable cryptographic architectures (CGRCA) to meet...
The increasing demand for decentralized and user-controlled cryptographic key management in blockchain ecosystems has created interest in alternative entropy sources that do not rely on dedicated hardware. This study investigates whether commercial s...
With the advent of several new means of communication, safeguarding the confidentiality of messages has become more crucial. Financial institutions, virtual currencies, and government organizations are all examples of high-risk contexts where informa...
Cryptographic inventories and runtime detection identify cryptographic use but do not establish implementation conformance or policy satisfaction. We present a deterministic composition linking admitted runtime evidence, provenance closure, exact imp...
Dynamic data security in embedded systems is raising more and more concerns in numerous safety-critical applications. In particular, the data exchanges in embedded Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) using main memory are exposing many security vulnerabilities to...
In existing cryptographic key distribution (CKD) protocols based on computational ghost imaging (CGI), the interaction among multiple legitimate users is generally neglected, and the channel noise has a serious impact on the performance. To overcome...
The certificate authority, a trusted entity, issues digital certificates which contain identity credentials to help Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices to represent their authenticity in a secure means. The crucial challenge of a digital cer...
According to Fortune Business Insights, the market share of the Internet of Vehicless is expected to grow from USD 95.62 billion in 2021 to USD 369.61 billion in 2028, at a compound annual growth rate of 21.4%. However, the Internet of Vehicles syste...
Cryptographic dependency updates can install cleanly and pass visible regression tests while changing project-facing behavior or leaving an application inside a vulnerable version range. This study presents VeriCrypt-Agent, an evidence-grounded workf...
The incorporation of Internet of Things (IoT) edge nodes into assistive technologies greatly improves the daily lives of individuals with disabilities by facilitating real-time data processing and seamless connectivity. However, the increasing adopti...
In recent years, many chaos-based encryption algorithms have been proposed. Many of these are based on established designs and populate their S-boxes with values derived from chaotic maps, following conventional implementation strategies to enable co...
This study presents a groundbreaking approach to the ever-evolving challenge of ransomware detection. A lot of detection methods predominantly rely on pinpointing high-entropy blocks, which is a hallmark of the encryption techniques commonly employed...
Internet of things (IoT) technology provides practical solutions for a wide range of applications, including but not limited to, smart homes, smart cities, intelligent grid, intelligent transportation, and healthcare. Security and privacy issues in I...
Designers and users of the Internet of Things (IoT) are devoting more and more attention to the issues of security and privacy as well as the integration of data coming from various areas. A critical element of cooperation is building mutual trust an...
Agentic large language model (LLM) networks are increasingly used in safety-critical settings where autonomous agents invoke tools, exchange context, and coordinate decisions. Prompt-injection attacks remain a significant threat to these multi-agent...
Federated learning (FL) has emerged as an important distributed machine learning paradigm allowing many users to train a model together without sharing raw data. However, FL’s decentralized design makes it very susceptible to both Byzantine and...
The efficiency of heuristic search algorithms is a critical factor in the realm of cryptographic primitive construction, particularly in the generation of highly nonlinear bijective permutations, known as substitution boxes (S-boxes). The vast search...
Due to the growing number of vehicles on the roads worldwide, road traffic accidents are currently recognized as a major public safety problem. In this context, connected vehicles are considered as the key enabling technology to improve road safety a...
A novel public key cryptographic algorithm using a matrix pattern is developed to improve encrypting strength. Compared to the Rivest–Sharmir–Adleman (RSA) and Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) algorithms, our proposed algorithm has superior encrypti...
The rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT) applications over 5G networks demands secure, low-latency data transmission while operating under strict resource constraints. However, existing studies have relied on simulations or partial implementation...
Energy security is a crucial issue for political, environmental, and economic reasons. This article presents a modern approach to securing critical infrastructure in energy transmission networks, which are managed by advanced IT systems. This paper f...
Networks of picture processors is a massively distributed and parallel computational model inspired by the evolutionary cellular processes, which offers efficient solutions for NP-complete problems. This bio-inspired model computes two-dimensional st...
This paper addresses the problem of constructing adaptive stream encryption transformations based on dynamically generated Boolean mappings. A formal framework for modeling and modifying asymmetric two-operand Conditional Elementary Transformations (...
Cryptographic cloud storage (CCS) is a secure architecture built in the upper layer of a public cloud infrastructure. In the CCS system, a user can define and manage the access control of the data by himself without the help of cloud storage service...
Hybrid post-quantum TLS deployments pair classical and post-quantum signature algorithms to resist future quantum adversaries. However, to the best of our knowledge, no active IETF TLS, PQUIP, or LAMPS working-group draft treats CPU-cost adversarial...
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