By far the most important automated tool for network and communications security is encryption, but encryption itself needs security. As we know, many cryptosystems and cryptograp...
In this paper, we present a security framework that provides identity protection against active and passive attacks for end-points. The framework is based on a two-round-trip authe...
IPsec allows a huge amount of flexibility in the ways in which its component cryptographic mechanisms can be combined to build a secure communications service. This may be good fo...
The signcryption is a relatively new cryptographic technique that is supposed to fulfill the functionalities of encryption and digital signature in a single logical step. Although...
: Fair exchange protocols play an important role in application areas such as e-commerce where protocol participants require mutual guarantees that a transaction involving exchange...