The recent digital revolution led robots to become integrated more than ever into different
domains such as agricultural, medical, industrial, military, police (law enforcement), and …

The Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) attack is one of the most well known attacks in computer
security, representing one of the biggest concerns for security professionals. MITM targets …

Multi-factor authentication is a promising way to enhance the security of password-based
authenticated key exchange (PAKE) schemes. It is widely deployed in various daily …

ProVerif is an automatic symbolic protocol verifier. It supports a wide range of cryptographic
primitives, defined by rewrite rules or by equations. It can prove various security properties …

In recent years, rapid advancements in smart grid technology and smart metering systems
have raised serious privacy concerns about the collection of customers' real-time energy …

Privacy and data protection constitute core values of individuals and of democratic societies.
There have been decades of debate on how those values-and legal obligations-can be …

Despite two decades of intensive research, it remains a challenge to design a practical
anonymous two-factor authentication scheme, for the designers are confronted with an …

Cryptography, in particular public-key cryptography, has emerged in the last 20 years as an
important discipline that is not only the subject of an enormous amount of research, but …

In this paper, we compare the performance of descriptors computed for local interest
regions, as, for example, extracted by the Harris-Affine detector [Mikolajczyk, K and Schmid …

THE LEGACYFirst introduced in 1995, Cryptography: Theory and Practice garnered
enormous praise and popularity, and soon became the standard textbook for cryptography …