Symmetry in Security and Theoretical Computer Science
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 219
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cryptography; cyber security
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The purpose of this Special Issue is to present the new advances, explorations, challenges, and solutions in applications, services, formal analysis, mathematical modeling, cryptographic methods, cyber security research, and development for the pre- and post-quantum era. Topics of interest include discoveries of theoretical computer science for emerging cyber security and cryptographic issues. Moreover, new security countermeasures and design methodologies for cryptographic protocols are focused on considering symmetry and theoretical computer science. The editors are looking forward to recent advances in related research, not limited to the following topics, providing a platform for researchers from both academia and industry to exchange their innovative ideas, theories, and applications.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Theoretical computer science for cryptography.
- Computer algebra with applications in cryptography.
- Formal verification and analysis of cryptographic protocols.
- Post-quantum cryptography.
- Efficient cryptographic computations.
- Security and privacy.
- Risk analysis, vulnerability analysis, and threat management.
- Authentication and access control.
- Blockchain solutions for cyber security.
- Cyber security solutions for avionics.
- Malicious software detection methods.
- Malware analysis.
- IoT security.
- V2X security and privacy.
- Information-centric networking security (CDNs, CCNs, and NDNs).
- Cloud computing security and privacy.
- Side-channel attacks and countermeasures.
- Lightweighted micro-service security practices.
- ML/DL/FL algorithms for cyber security.
Prof. Dr. Sedat Akleylek
Dr. Ertuğrul Doğruluk
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- post-quantum cryptography
- theoretical computer science
- cyber security
- efficient implementations of cryptographic schemes
- formal analysis
- malware analysis
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