Since networks and computing systems are vital components of today's life, it is of utmost importance to endow them with the capability to survive physical and logical faults...
The paper addresses the purposes and design decisions produced while developing a peer-to-peer virtual world platform. The work is being done within the FP7 VirtualLife project. Th...
Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) are a commonly used paradigm for IT infrastructures in various fields. Due to their flexibility and the easy accessibility of their underly...
Most of today’s authentication schemes involve verifying the identity of a principal in some way. This process is commonly known as entity authentication. In emerging ubiquitous ...
Chameleon signatures are non-interactive signatures based on a hash-and-sign paradigm, and similar in efficiency to regular signatures. The distinguishing characteristic of chamel...