A social network is defined as a social structure of individuals, who are related (directly or indirectly to each other) based on a common relation of interest, e.g. friendship, t...
Since Boneh and Franklin published their seminal paper on identity based encryption (IBE) using the Weil pairing , there has been a great deal of interest in cryptographic primitiv...
Sattam S. Al-Riyami, John Malone-Lee, Nigel P. Sma...
Covert channels are used for the secret transfer of information. Encryption only protects communication from being decoded by unauthorised parties, whereas covert channels aim to ...
Sebastian Zander, Grenville J. Armitage, Philip Br...
Anonymity is a very important security feature in addition to authentication and key agreement features in communication protocols. In this paper, we propose two authentication an...
In an open networking environment, a workstation usually needs to identify its legal users for providing its services. Kerberos provides an efficient approach whereby a trusted th...