The physical environment is becoming more and more saturated with computing and
communication entities that interact among themselves, as well as with users: virtually …

Key generation is a promising technique to bootstrap secure communications for the Internet
of Things devices that have no prior knowledge between each other. In the past few years, a …

Conventional mobile social services such as Loopt and Google Latitude rely on two classes
of trusted relationships: participants trust a centralized server to manage their location …

The body area network (BAN) is a key enabling technology in e-healthcare. An important
security issue is to establish initial trust relationships among the BAN devices before they …

Opportunistic networks enable mobile users to participate in various social interactions with
applications such as content distribution and micro-blogs. Because of their distributed …

Body Area Networks (BAN) is a key enabling technology in E-healthcare such as remote
health monitoring. An important security issue during bootstrap phase of the BAN is to …

Trustworthy digital communication requires the secure exchange of contact information, but
current approaches lack usability and scalability for larger groups of users. We evaluate the …

In a wireless world, users can establish ad hoc virtual connections between devices that are
unhampered by cables. This process is known as spontaneous device association. A wide …

The design of secure authentication protocols is quite challenging, considering that various
kinds of root kits reside in Personal Computers (PCs) to observe user's behavior and to …

We argue that a general theory of trust in networks of humans and computers must be build
on both a theory of behavioral trust and a theory of computational trust. This argument is …