Cryptography and Its Applications in Information Security, Volume II

Dear Colleagues,

Today, we all live today in a cyber world, and modern technologies involve fast communication links, potentially between billions of devices, via complex networks (satellites, mobile phones, the Internet, etc.). Thus, the question of how we protect public communication networks and devices from passive and active attacks that could threaten public safety (sabotage, espionage, cyber terrorism) and personal privacy has become one of great significance—especially considering that governments themselves are often suspected of promoting and actively participating in the hacking of other government officials, democratic processes, industrial secrets, and citizens, with hackers targeting the sensitive information of citizens, industries, and governments. This is a real threat, and it is escalating.

One of the main avenues of protecting public safety and personal privacy is that of protecting most of the communication network traffic (digital multimedia contents such as images, speech signal, videos and emails, etc.), which is vulnerable to various security threats taking place in different societies and within several societal levels.

The objective of this Special Issue on “Cryptography and its Applications in Information Security” is to address the range of problems related to the security of information in networks and multimedia communications and to bring together researchers, practitioners, and industry experts interested in such questions. We welcome papers both from theoretical and practical aspects. Prospective authors are invited to submit original work reporting on novel and significant research contributions, ongoing research projects, experimental results, and recent developments related but not limited to the following topics:

• Cryptography
• Cybersecurity
• Chaos-based cryptography
• Quantum Cryptography
• Post-Quantum Cryptography
• Homomorphic encryption
• Block ciphers
• Stream ciphers
• Hash functions
• Steganography
• Watermarking
• Selective encryption
• Multimedia security
• Multimedia data hiding and security
• Hardware security
• Secure FPGA implementation for cryptographic primitives
• Security methods for communications
• Wireless network security (Internet, WSNs, UMTS, WiFi, WiMAX, WiMedia, and others)
• Security of IoT systems
• Security in 5G
• Sensor and mobile ad hoc network security
• Security and privacy in mobile systems
• Secure cloud computing
• Security and privacy in social networks
• Security and privacy in vehicular networks
• Security and privacy in web services
• Database security and privacy
• Intellectual property protection
• Lightweight cryptography for green computing
• Personal data protection for information systems
• Protocols for security
• Cryptanalysis
• Side-channel attack
• Fault injection attack
• Physical layer security for communications

Dr. Safwan El Assad
Prof. Dr. René Lozi
Prof. Dr. William Puech
Guest Editors

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