For the two last decades, electronic authentication has been an important topic. The first applications were digital signatures to mimic handwritten signatures for digital document...
The popularity of "Trust-on-first-use" (Tofu) authentication, used by SSH and HTTPS with self-signed certificates, demonstrates significant demand for host authenticatio...
Despite the advantages offered by pure Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks (e.g. robustness and fault tolerance), a crucial requirement is to guarantee basic security properties, such as ...
: A secure electronic cash scheme and its role-based access control (RBAC) management are proposed in this paper. The scheme uses electronic cash for payment transactions. In this ...
: BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer (p2p) protocol for file-sharing. Its improvement over other file-sharing protocols is its tit-for-tat strategy to decide to whom a peer should uplo...