Information Security Practice and Experience

Dear Colleagues,

As applications of computer systems and networks have permeated into every aspect of our daily lives, the information technologies and applications have been meeting the security, privacy and anonymity issues in computation, communication and storage systems. This special issue covers many dimensions including cryptographic algorithms and architectures, privacy-aware policies, regulations and techniques, anonymous computation and communication, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial application systems for computation, communication and storage. We propose this Special Issue to present security, privacy and anonymity in computation, communication and storage systems. It will be based on the upcoming international conferences: The 14th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience (ISPEC 2018) in September 2018 in Tokyo, Japan (http://www.risk.tsukuba.ac.jp/ispec2018/).

The aim of this Special Issue is to present recent progress and achievement of the research of cryptography-based security, the cryptographic techniques, protocols and applications. The scope of the Special Issue includes (but is not limited to):

• Leakage-resilient cryptography and applications
• Provable secure cryptographic protocols
• Light-weight Cryptography for IoT security
• Computer System Security
• Cryptography-based Network Security
• Security notions, approaches, and paradigms
• Steganography and steganalysis

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• Cryptography-based Network Security
• Cryptographic protocols
• Cryptanalysis
• Provable Security and application
• Security in Web Services
• Leakage-resilient cryptography
• Network Security
• Malware and Botnets
• Intrusion Detection
• Cryptographic Implementation
• Big data security and privacy