— Reputation systems have been a hot topic in the peer-to-peer community for several years. In a services-oriented distributed computing environment like the Grid, reputation sys...
The large scale adoption of adaptive services in pervasive and mobile computing is likely to be conditioned to the availability of reliable privacy-preserving technologies. Unfort...
Rijndael is a block cipher designed by V. Rijmen and J. Daemen and it was chosen in its 128-bit block version as AES by the NIST in October 2000. Three key lengths - 128, 192 or 25...
Since Al-Riyami and Paterson presented certificateless cryptography, many certificateless schemes have been proposed for different purposes. In this paper, we present a certificate...
—When the Internet was conceived, its fundamental operation was envisioned to be point-to-point communication allowing anybody to talk directly to anybody. With its increasing su...