In an open networking environment, a workstation usually needs to identify its legal users for providing its services. Kerberos provides an efficient approach whereby a trusted th...
While Planning has been a key area in Artificial Intelligence since its beginnings, significant changes have occurred in the last decade as a result of new ideas and a more estab...
Existing asymmetric encryption algorithms require the storage of the secret private key. Stored keys are often protected by poorly selected user passwords that can either be guess...
A convertible authenticated encryption scheme allows a specified recipient to recover and verify a message simultaneously. Moreover the recipient can prove the dishonesty of the se...
In this paper, we propose a cost effective mutual authentication scheme with key agreement using smart cards. Our scheme is motivated by the scheme design in two articles publishe...