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• Introduction.- Lattices and Applications.- Lattices from Codes.- Ideal Lattices.- Lattices and Spherical Codes.- Lattice and Index Coding.
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This book provides a first course on lattices - mathematical objects pertaining to the realm of discrete geometry, which are of interest to mathematicians for their structure and, at the same time, are used by electrical and computer engineers working on coding theory and cryptography. The book presents both fundamental concepts and a wealth of applications, including coding and transmission over Gaussian channels, techniques for obtaining lattices from finite prime fields and quadratic fields, constructions of spherical codes, and hard lattice problems used in cryptography. The topics selected are covered in a level of detail not usually found in reference books. As the range of applications of lattices continues to grow, this work will appeal to mathematicians, electrical and computer engineers, and graduate or advanced undergraduate in these fields.
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• Introduction.- Bridging the Classical D&D and Cyber Security Domains.- Intrusions, Deceptions, and Campaigns.- Cyber D&D Case Studies.- Exercising Cyber-D&D.- Considerations, Adaptation, and Sharing.- Countering Denial & Deception.- Capability Maturity Model.- Cyber-D&D Lifecycle Management.- Looking to the future.
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This book presents the first reference exposition of the Cyber-Deception Chain: a flexible planning and execution framework for creating tactical, operational, or strategic deceptions. This methodology bridges the gap between the current uncoordinated patchwork of tactical denial and deception (D&D) techniques and their orchestration in service of an organization's mission. Concepts for cyber- D&D planning operations and management are detailed within the larger organizational, business, and cyber defense context. It examines the necessity of a comprehensive, active cyber denial scheme. The authors explain the organizational implications of integrating D&D with a legacy cyber strategy, and discuss trade-offs, maturity models, and lifecycle management. Chapters present the primary challenges in using deception as part of a security strategy, and guides users through the steps to overcome common obstacles. Both revealing and concealing fact and fiction have a critical role in securing private information. Detailed case studies are included. Cyber Denial, Deception and Counter Deception is designed as a reference for professionals, researchers and government employees working in cybersecurity. Advanced-level students in computer science focused on security will also find this book useful as a reference or secondary text book.
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• Opening Pandora's Box: Effective Techniques for Reverse Engineering IoT Devices.- Optimal First-Order Boolean Masking for Embedded IoT Devices.- A first-order chosen plaintext DPA attack on the third round of DES.- A Strict Key Enumeration Algorithm for Dependent Score Lists of Side-Channel Attacks.- A Novel Use of Kernel Discriminant Analysis as a Higher-Order Side-Channel Distinguisher.- Leakage Bounds for Gaussian Side Channels.- Towards Sound and Optimal Leakage Detection Procedure.- Connecting and Improving Direct Sum Masking and Inner Product Masking.- May The Force Be With You: Force-Based Relay Attack Detection.- Instruction Duplication: Leaky and Not Too Fault-Tolerant!.- An EM Fault Injection Susceptibility Criterion and its application to the localization of hotspots.- Fault Analysis of the ChaCha and Salsa Families of Stream Ciphers.- Horizontal clustering side-channel attacks on embedded ECC implementations.- Trace Augmentation: What Can Be Done Even Before Preprocessing in a Pro led SCA?
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications, CARDIS 2017, held in Lugano, Switzerland, in November 2017.The 14 revised full papers presented together with 2 abstracts of invited talks in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. CARDIS has provided a space for security experts from industry and academia to exchange on security of smart cards and related applications.
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• 1. Lossless Coding
• 2. Universal Coding on Finite Alphabets
• 3. Universal Coding on Infinite Alphabets
• 4. Model Order Estimation
• Notation
• Index.

The purpose of these notes is to highlight the far-reaching connections between Information Theory and Statistics. Universal coding and adaptive compression are indeed closely related to statistical inference concerning processes and using maximum likelihood or Bayesian methods. The book is divided into four chapters, the first of which introduces readers to lossless coding, provides an intrinsic lower bound on the codeword length in terms of Shannon's entropy, and presents some coding methods that can achieve this lower bound, provided the source distribution is known. In turn, Chapter 2 addresses universal coding on finite alphabets, and seeks to find coding procedures that can achieve the optimal compression rate, regardless of the source distribution. It also quantifies the speed of convergence of the compression rate to the source entropy rate. These powerful results do not extend to infinite alphabets. In Chapter 3, it is shown that there are no universal codes over the class of stationary ergodic sources over a countable alphabet. This negative result prompts at least two different approaches: the introduction of smaller sub-classes of sources known as envelope classes, over which adaptive coding may be feasible, and the redefinition of the performance criterion by focusing on compressing the message pattern. Finally, Chapter 4 deals with the question of order identification in statistics. This question belongs to the class of model selection problems and arises in various practical situations in which the goal is to identify an integer characterizing the model: the length of dependency for a Markov chain, number of hidden states for a hidden Markov chain, and number of populations for a population mixture. The coding ideas and techniques developed in previous chapters allow us to obtain new results in this area. This book is accessible to anyone with a graduate level in Mathematics, and will appeal to information theoreticians and mathematical statisticians alike. Except for Chapter 4, all proofs are detailed and all tools needed to understand the text are reviewed.-- Provided by publisher.

• Chapter 01- Introduction.-
• Chapter 02- Basic concepts of coding theory.-
• Chapter 03- Poset metrics.-
• Chapter 04- Hierarquical posets.-
• Chapter 05- Disjoint chains with equal length.-
• Chapter 06- The general case: Coding invariants.-
• Chapter 07- Duality.-
• Chapter 08- Generalizations.
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This book offers an organized and systematic approach to poset metrics and codes. Poset metrics, or metrics on a vector field determined by a partial order over a finite set, were first introduced in the mid-1990s by the mathematicians Richard A. Brualdi, Janine S. Graves and K. Mark Lawrence, and to date the relevant knowledge on this subject was spread over more than two hundred research papers. Poset metrics generalizes both the standard Hamming metric - the most important metric used in the context of coding theory - and the Niederreiter-Rosenbloom-Tsfasman metric, which is an ultrametric. Conceived to be as self-contained as possible, the book starts from basic concepts of coding theory and advances towards coding theory for poset metrics and generalizations. Each chapter includes a survey of the topic presented and a list of exercises, drawn in part from recently proven results. This work will appeal to researchers and graduate students alike, particularly those in the fields of Mathematics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, with an interest in discrete geometry and coding theory.
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• Preface.- Introduction.- Part I: The Cybersecurity Challenge.-
• Chapter 1: Defining the Cybersecurity Challenge.-
• Chapter 2: Meeting the Cybersecurity Challenge.-
• Part II: A New Enterprise Cybersecurity Architecture.-
• Chapter 3: Enterprise Cybersecurity Architecture.-
• Chapter 4: Implementing Enterprise Cybersecurity.-
• Chapter 5: Operating Enterprise Cybersecurity.-
• Chapter 6: Enterprise Cybersecurity and the Cloud.-
• Chapter 7: Enterprise Cybersecurity for Mobile and BYOD.-
• Part III: The Art of Cyber Defense.-
• Chapter 8: Building an Effective Defense.-
• Chapter 9: Responding to Incidents.-
• Chapter 10: Managing a Cybersecurity Crisis.-
• Part IV: Enterprise Cyber Defense Assessment.-
• Chapter 11: Assessing Enterprise Cybersecurity.-
• Chapter 12: Measuring a Cybersecurity Program.-
• Chapter 13: Mapping Against Cybersecurity Frameworks.-
• Part V: Enterprise Cybersecurity Program.-
• Chapter 14: Managing an Enterprise Cybersecurity Program.-
• Chapter 15: Looking to the Future.-
• Part VI: Appendices.-
• Appendix A: Sample Cybersecurity Policy.-
• Appendix B: Cybersecurity Operational Processes.-
• Appendix C: Object Measurement.-
• Appendix D: Cybersecurity Sample Assessment.-
• Appendix E: Cybersecurity Capability Value Scales.-.
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Use the methodology in this study guide to design, manage, and operate a balanced enterprise cybersecurity program that is pragmatic and realistic in the face of resource constraints and other real-world limitations. This guide is an instructional companion to the book Enterprise Cybersecurity: How to Build a Successful Cyberdefense Program Against Advanced Threats. The study guide will help you understand the book's ideas and put them to work. The guide can be used for self-study or in the classroom. Enterprise cybersecurity is about implementing a cyberdefense program that will succeed in defending against real-world attacks. While we often know what should be done, the resources to do it often are not sufficient. The reality is that the Cybersecurity Conundrum-what the defenders request, what the frameworks specify, and what the budget allows versus what the attackers exploit-gets in the way of what needs to be done. Cyberattacks in the headlines affecting millions of people show that this conundrum fails more often than we would prefer. Cybersecurity professionals want to implement more than what control frameworks specify, and more than what the budget allows. Ironically, another challenge is that even when defenders get everything that they want, clever attackers are extremely effective at finding and exploiting the gaps in those defenses, regardless of their comprehensiveness. Therefore, the cybersecurity challenge is to spend the available budget on the right protections, so that real-world attacks can be thwarted without breaking the bank. People involved in or interested in successful enterprise cybersecurity can use this study guide to gain insight into a comprehensive framework for coordinating an entire enterprise cyberdefense program. What You'll Learn Know the methodology of targeted attacks and why they succeed Master the cybersecurity risk management process Understand why cybersecurity capabilities are the foundation of effective cyberdefenses Organize a cybersecurity program's policy, people, budget, technology, and assessment Assess and score a cybersecurity program Report cybersecurity program status against compliance and regulatory frameworks Use the operational processes and supporting information systems of a successful cybersecurity program Create a data-driven and objectively managed cybersecurity program Discover how cybersecurity is evolving and will continue to evolve over the next decade Who This Book Is For Those involved in or interested in successful enterprise cybersecurity (e.g., business professionals, IT professionals, cybersecurity professionals, and students). This guide can be used in a self-study mode. The book can be used by students to facilitate note-taking in the classroom and by Instructors to develop classroom presentations based on the contents of the original book, Enterprise Cybersecurity: How to Build a Successful Cyberdefense Program Against Advanced Threats.
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• Table of Contents What's New in .NET Core 2 and C# 7? Understanding .NET Core Internals and Measuring Performance Multithreading and Asynchronous Programming in .NET Core Securing and Implementing Resilience in .NET Core Applications Why TDD is Important Setting Up the .NET Test Environment Setting Up a JavaScript Environment What to Know Before Getting Started Tabula Rasa Testing JavaScript Applications Exploring Integrations Changes in Requirements The Legacy Problem Unraveling a Mess Geometry Randomization Files and Directories Advanced C# and .NET Features Cryptography.
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Conquer complex and interesting programming challenges by building robust and concurrent applications with caches, cryptography, and parallel programming. Key Features Understand how to use .NET frameworks like the Task Parallel Library (TPL)and CryptoAPI Develop a containerized application based on microservices architecture Gain insights into memory management techniques in .NET Core Book DescriptionThis Learning Path shows you how to create high performing applications and solve programming challenges using a wide range of C# features. You'll begin by learning how to identify the bottlenecks in writing programs, highlight common performance pitfalls, and apply strategies to detect and resolve these issues early. You'll also study the importance of micro-services architecture for building fast applications and implementing resiliency and security in .NET Core. Then, you'll study the importance of defining and testing boundaries, abstracting away third-party code, and working with different types of test double, such as spies, mocks, and fakes. In addition to describing programming trade-offs, this Learning Path will also help you build a useful toolkit of techniques, including value caching, statistical analysis, and geometric algorithms. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 High Performance by Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan Practical Test-Driven Development using C# 7 by John Callaway, Clayton Hunt The Modern C# Challenge by Rod Stephens What you will learn Measure application performance using BenchmarkDotNet Leverage the Task Parallel Library (TPL) and Parallel Language Integrated Query (PLINQ)library to perform asynchronous operations Modify a legacy application to make it testable Use LINQ and PLINQ to search directories for files matching patterns Find areas of polygons using geometric operations Randomize arrays and lists with extension methods Use cryptographic techniques to encrypt and decrypt strings and files Who this book is forIf you want to improve the speed of your code and optimize the performance of your applications, or are simply looking for a practical resource on test driven development, this is the ideal Learning Path for you. Some familiarity with C# and .NET will be beneficial.
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• Authentication.- Cryptography.- Multi-party computation.- Cryptanalysis.- Coding Theory.- Digital Signatures.- Homomorphic Encryption.- Homomorphic Signatures.- Post-quantum cryptography.- Lattie-based cryptography.- Order Revealing Encryption.- Bilinear maps.- Multi-linear maps.
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th IMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding, IMACC 2017, held at Oxford, UK, in December 2017. The 19 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The conference focuses on a diverse set of topics both in cryptography and coding theory.
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• Scalable Similarity Search for Big Data
• Challenges and Research Objectives
• Content-based analytics of Diffusion on Social Big Data: a Case Study on Korean Telecommunication Companies
• Multi-modal Similarity Retrieval with a Shared Distributed Data Store
• An Efficient Approach for Complex Data Summarization
• A Novel Approach for Network Traffic Summarization
• Heart Disease Diagnosis Using Co-Clustering
• An Investigation of Scalable Anomaly Detection Techniques for a Large Network of Wi-Fi Hotspots
• Link Scheduling for Data Collection in Multichannel Wireless Sensor Networks A Design of Sensor Data Ontology for a Large Scale Crop Growth Environment System
• Real-Time Data Flow Language Processing System for Handling Streams of Data.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Conference on Scalable Information Systems, INFOSCALE 2014, held in September 2014 in Seoul, South Korea. The 9 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics such as scalable data analysis and big data applications.

• Impossibilities and Barriers.- Obfuscation.- Functional Encryption.- Constrained PRFs.- Encryption.- Moderately Hard Functions.- Blockchains.- Multiparty Computation.- Garbled Circuits and Oblivious RAM.- Zero-Knowledge and Non-Malleability.- Leakage and Tampering.- Delegation.- Non-Malleable Codes.- Secret Sharing.- OT Combiners.- Signatures.- Verifiable Random Functions.- Fully Homomorphic Encryption.- Database Privacy.- Assumptions.
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The two-volume set LNCS 10677 and LNCS 10678 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Theory of Cryptography, TCC 2017, held in Baltimore, MD, USA, in November 2017. The total of 51 revised full papers presented in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 150 submissions. The Theory of Cryptography Conference deals with the paradigms, approaches, and techniques used to conceptualize natural cryptographic problems and provide algorithmic solutions to them and much more.
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• Chapter 1: Introduction.-
• Chapter 2: Security Testing Basics.-
• Chapter 3: The Security Testing Process.-
• Chapter 4: Technical Preparations.-
• Chapter 5: Security Test Execution.-
• Chapter 6: Identifying Vulnerabilities.-
• Chapter 7: Exploiting Vulnerabilities.-
• Chapter 8: Reporting Vulnerabilities.-
• Chapter 9: Example Reports.-
• Chapter 10: 10 Tips to Become a Better Security Tester.
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Learn everything you need to know to become a professional security and penetration tester. It simplifies hands-on security and penetration testing by breaking down each step of the process so that finding vulnerabilities and misconfigurations becomes easy. The book explains how to methodically locate, exploit, and professionally report security weaknesses using techniques such as SQL-injection, denial-of-service attacks, and password hacking. Although From Hacking to Report Writing will give you the technical know-how needed to carry out advanced security tests, it also offers insight into crafting professional looking reports describing your work and how your customers can benefit from it. The book will give you the tools you need to clearly communicate the benefits of high-quality security and penetration testing to IT-management, executives and other stakeholders. Embedded in the book are a number of on-the-job stories that will give you a good understanding of how you can apply what you have learned to real-world situations. We live in a time where computer security is more important than ever. Staying one step ahead of hackers has never been a bigger challenge. From Hacking to Report Writing clarifies how you can sleep better at night knowing that your network has been thoroughly tested. What you'll learn * Clearly understand why security and penetration testing is important * Find vulnerabilities in any system using the same techniques as hackers do * Write professional looking reports * Know which security and penetration testing method to apply for any given situation * Successfully hold together a security and penetration test project Who This Book Is For Aspiring security and penetration testers, security consultants, security and penetration testers, IT managers, and security researchers.
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• Table of Contents Blockchain 101 Components and Structure of Blockchain Decentralization Versus Distributed Systems Cryptography and Mechanics Behind Blockchain Bitcoin Altcoins Achieving Consensus Advanced Blockchain Concepts Cryptocurrency Wallets Alternate Blockchains Hyperledger and Enterprise Blockchains Ethereum 101 Solidity 101 Smart Contracts Ethereum Accounts and Ether Tokens Decentralized Applications Mining ICO 101 Creating Your Own Currency Scalability and Other Challenges Future of Blockchain Understanding Decentralized Applications Understanding How Ethereum Works Writing Smart Contracts Getting Started with web3.js Building a Wallet Service Building a Smart Contract Deployment Platform Building a Betting App Building Enterprise Level Smart Contracts Building a Consortium Blockchain.
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Build real-world projects like a smart contract deployment platform, betting apps, wallet services, and much more using blockchain Key Features Apply blockchain principles and features for making your life and business better Understand Ethereum for smart contracts and DApp deployment Tackle current and future challenges and problems relating to blockchain Book DescriptionBlockchain applications provide a single-shared ledger to eliminate trust issues involving multiple stakeholders. It is the main technical innovation of Bitcoin, where it serves as the public ledger for Bitcoin transactions. Blockchain Developer's Guide takes you through the electrifying world of blockchain technology. It begins with the basic design of a blockchain and elaborates concepts, such as Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), tokens, smart contracts, and other related terminologies. You will then explore the components of Ethereum, such as Ether tokens, transactions, and smart contracts that you need to build simple DApps. Blockchain Developer's Guide also explains why you must specifically use Solidity for Ethereum-based projects and lets you explore different blockchains with easy-to-follow examples. You will learn a wide range of concepts - beginning with cryptography in cryptocurrencies and including ether security, mining, and smart contracts. You will learn how to use web sockets and various API services for Ethereum. By the end of this Learning Path, you will be able to build efficient decentralized applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: Blockchain Quick Reference by Brenn Hill, Samanyu Chopra, Paul Valencourt Building Blockchain Projects by Narayan Prusty What you will learn Understand how various components of the blockchain architecture work Get familiar with cryptography and the mechanics behind blockchain Apply consensus protocol to determine the business sustainability Understand what ICOs and crypto-mining are, and how they work Who this book is forBlockchain Developer's Guide is for you if you want to get to grips with the blockchain technology and develop your own distributed applications. It is also designed for those who want to polish their existing knowledge regarding the various pillars of the blockchain ecosystem. Prior exposure to an object-oriented programming language such as JavaScript is needed.
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• Table of Contents Blockchain Basics Grokking Ethereum Hello World" of Ethereum Smart Contract Noob's Guide for DApps and DAOs Deep-diving to Smart Contracts Solidity in Depth Primer on Web3.js Developing a crypto currency from Scratch Enterprise Use-Cases Blockchain-as-a-Service and Dark Web Marketplace Appendix: Advanced Topics and the road ahead.
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Become an Ethereum Blockchain developer using a blend of concepts and hands-on implementations Key Features Understand the Ethereum Ecosystem and its differences from its rich cousin Bitcoin Explore the Solidity programming language and smart contract optimizations Get a developer's perspective of Blockchain-as-a-technology with exposure to common challenges faced while building decentralized applications Book DescriptionEthereum is a public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract functionality. This book is your one-stop guide to blockchain and Ethereum smart contract development. We start by introducing you to the basics of blockchain. You'll learn about hash functions, Merkle trees, forking, mining, and much more. Then you'll learn about Ethereum and smart contracts, and we'll cover Ethereum virtual machine (EVM) in detail. Next, you'll get acquainted with DApps and DAOs and see how they work. We'll also delve into the mechanisms of advanced smart contracts, taking a practical approach. You'll also learn how to develop your own cryptocurrency from scratch in order to understand the business behind ICO. Further on, you'll get to know the key concepts of the Solidity programming language, enabling you to build decentralized blockchain-based applications. We'll also look at enterprise use cases, where you'll build a decentralized microblogging site. At the end of this book, we discuss blockchain-as-a-service, the dark web marketplace, and various advanced topics so you can get well versed with the blockchain principles and ecosystem. What you will learn Know how to build your own smart contracts and cryptocurrencies Understand the Solidity language Find out about data types, control structure, functions, inheritance, mathematical operations, and much more See the various types of forks and discover how they are related to Ethereum Get to know the various concepts of web3.js and its APIs so you can build client-side apps Build a DAO from scratch and acquire basic knowledge of DApps on Ethercast Be guided through the project so you can optimize EVM for smart contracts Build your own decentralized applications (DApps) by taking a practical approach Who this book is forIf you want to know the ins and outs of the Ethereum network and build your own decentralized applications, then this book is what you need! This book is for anyone who is interested in blockchain and wants to become an Ethereum developer. It's ideal for existing Ethereum developers who want to develop Ethereum using smart contracts. Basic knowledge of cryptography is expected but is not mandatory.
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• Communication, speech and language in human- and non-human animals. The complexity of communication systems and intelligence in animals.- Intelligent communication: can animals exchange meaningful messages?.- Cracking animals codes.- Direct dialogs with animals by means of intermediary languages.- Ants and Bits.- Why bits? Information Theory as a tool for studying natural communication systems.- Why ants? Reliable agents for information transmission.- Ants on the Binary Tree.- The entropy - based approach.- The Kolmogorov Complexity-based approach.- Ants can compress information.- Numerical competence in animals with an insight from ant "language".- Criteria of numerical competence for comparative studies.- Quantitative judgments in animals.- Advanced numerical abilities.- Information Theory as a tool for studying wild arithmetic on the base of their own communications.- An insight from ant "language": flexibility of communication as a basis for arithmetic skills.
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The Author of this new volume on ant communication demonstrates that information theory is a valuable tool for studying the natural communication of animals. To do so, she pursues a fundamentally new approach to studying animal communication and "linguistic" capacities on the basis of measuring the rate of information transmission and the complexity of transmitted messages. Animals' communication systems and cognitive abilities have long-since been a topic of particular interest to biologists, psychologists, linguists, and many others, including researchers in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence. The main difficulties in the analysis of animal language have to date been predominantly methodological in nature. Addressing this perennial problem, the elaborated experimental paradigm presented here has been applied to ants, and can be extended to other social species of animals that have the need to memorize and relay complex "messages". Accordingly, the method opens exciting new dimensions in the study of natural communications in the wild.
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• Java cards
• Software countermeasures
• Side-channel analysis
• Embedded implementations
• Public-key cryptography
• Leakage and fault attacks.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications, CARDIS 2014, held in Paris, France, in November 2014. The 15 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Java cards; software countermeasures; side-channel analysis; embedded implementations; public-key cryptography; and leakage and fault attacks.

• Evolving Security.- Considering that security protocols evolve.- Changing requirements.- Changing mechanisms.- Attackers' changing agendas and capabilities.
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 24 th International Workshop on Securit Protocols, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in April 2016. The 13 thoroughly revised papers presented together with the respective transcripts of discussions have been carefully reviewed. The theme of the workshop was Evolving Security - considering that security protocols evolve with their changing requirements, their changing mechanisms and attackers' changing agendas and capabilities.
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• SYMMETRIC KEY ENCRYPTION.- CHAM: A Family of Lightweight Block Ciphers for Resource-Constrained Devices.- Improved Meet-in-the-Middle Attacks on Reduced Round Kuznyechik.- Security of Stateful Order-Preserving Encryption.- HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTION.- Cryptanalysis of Tran-Pang-Deng Verifiable Homomorphic Encryption.- Multi-Party (Leveled) Homomorphic Encryption on Identity-Based and Attribute-Based Settings.- Improved Key Generation Algorithm for Gentry's Fully Homomorphic Encryption Scheme.- SIDE CHANNEL ANALYSIS AND IMPLEMENTATION.- Novel Leakage against Realistic Masking and Shuffling Countermeasures - case study on PRINCE and SEED.- Detecting Similar Code Segments through Side Channel Leakage in Microcontrollers.- Secure Number Theoretic Transform and Speed Record for Ring-LWE Encryption on Embedded Processors.- BROADCAST ENCRYPTION.- Recipient Revocable Broadcast Encryption Schemes Without Random Oracles.- Recipient Revocable Broadcast Encryption with Dealership.- ELLIPTIC CURVE.- Solving 114-bit ECDLP for a Barreto-Naehrig Curve.- On the computational complexity of ECDLP for elliptic curves in various forms using index calculus.- SIGNATURE AND PROTOCOL.- Two Mutual Authentication Protocols Based on Zero-Knowledge Proofs For RFID Systems.- On New Zero-Knowledge Arguments for Attribute-Based Group Signatures from Lattices.- Security Analysis of Improved Cubic UOV Signature Schemes.- NETWORK AND SYSTEM SECURITY.- Evaluating the Impact of Juice Filming Charging Attack in Practical Environments.- Reading Network Packets as a Natural Language for Intrusion Detection.- Friend-safe Adversarial Examples in an Evasion Attack on a Deep Neural Network.
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This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 20th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, ICISC 2017, held in Seoul, South Korea, in November/December 2017. The total of 20 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: symmetric key encryption; homomorphic encryption, side channel analysis and implementation; broadcast encryption; elliptic curve; signature and protocol; and network and system security. .
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• On the (in)Security of ChaCha20 Against Physical Attacks.- An Industrial Outlook on Challenges of Hardware Security in Digital Economy.- How to Digitally Construct and Validate TRNG and PUF Primitives Which Are Based on Physical Phenomenon.- Cache Attacks: From Cloud to Mobile.- May the Fourth Be with You: A Microarchitectural Side Channel Attack on Several Real-World Applications of Curve25519.- The Crisis of Standardizing DRM: The Case of W3C Encrypted Media Extensions.- Parameter Choices for LWE.- Efficient Side Channel Testing of Cryptographic Devices Using TVLA.- IoT Insecurity - Innovation and Incentives in Industry.- Hardware enabled cryptography: Physically Unclonable Functions and Random Numbers as Roots of Trust.- Tackling the Time-Defence: An Instruction Count Based Microarchitectural Side-channel Attack on Block Ciphers.- Hey Doc, Is This Normal?: Exploring Android Permissions in the Post Marshmallow Era.- Efficient Software Implementation of Laddering Algorithms over Binary Elliptic Curves.- Analysis of Diagonal Constants in Salsa.- Practical Fault Attacks on Minalpher: How to Recover Key with Minimum Faults.- eSPF: A Family of Format-Preserving Encryption Algorithms Using MDS Matrices.- Similarity Based Interactive Private Information Retrieval.- A Secure and Efficient Implementation of the Quotient Digital Signature Algorithm (qDSA).- Variable-Length Bit Mapping and Error Correcting Codes for Higher-Order Alphabet PUFs.- Mutual Friend Attack Prevention in Social Network Data Publishing.- Short Integrated PKE+PEKS in Standard Model.- Differential Fault Attack on Grain v1, ACORN v3 and Lizard.- Certain observations on ACORN v3 and the Implications to TMDTO Attacks.- Efficient Implementation of Private License Plate Matching Protocols. .
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering, SPACE 2017, held in Goa, India, in December 2017. The 13 revised full papers presented together with 1 short paper, 7 invited talks, and 4 tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 initial submissions. This annual event is devoted to various aspects of security, privacy, applied cryptography, and cryptographic engineering. This is indeed a very challenging field, requiring the expertise from diverse domains, ranging from mathematics to solid-state circuit design.
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• Intro
• Preface
• Organization
• Contents
• Overview
• The Multi-Agent Programming Contest: A Résumé*5pt
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Structure of This Work
• 1.2 Agents
• 1.3 Goals and Purpose of the MAPC
• 1.4 Related Work
• 2 The MASSim Framework
• 2.1 From 2006: The Early Days
• 2.2 2017 Until Today: Simply Going Forward
• 3 History and Evolution of the Contest
• 3.1 Early Phase
• 3.2 Agents on Mars
• 3.3 The City Scenario
• 4 2019: Agents Assemble
• 4.1 Scenario
• 4.2 Participants
• 4.3 Tournament and Results
• 4.4 Interesting Simulations
• 4.5 Survey Results

• 5 Lessons Learned
• 5.1 Agents Assemble Scenario
• 5.2 General
• 6 Challenges and Outlook
• References
• Contest Entries
• LFC: Combining Autonomous Agents and Automated Planning in the Multi-Agent Programming Contest
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Software Architecture
• 2.1 JaCaMo
• 2.2 Fast Downward
• 3 Strategies and Behaviours
• 3.1 Exploration
• 3.2 Agent Identification
• 3.3 Goal Evaluation
• 3.4 Building a Map
• 3.5 From Exploration to Tasks
• 3.6 Optimal In-Vision Planning
• 3.7 Achieving Tasks
• 4 Match Analysis
• 4.1 LFC vs FIT BUT
• 4.2 LFC vs TRG
• 4.3 LFC vs GOAL-DTU

• 5 Team Overview: Short Answers
• 5.1 Participants and Their Background
• 5.2 Statistics
• 5.3 Agent System Details
• 5.4 Scenario and Strategy
• 5.5 And the Moral of It Is ...
• 6 Conclusion
• References
• Multi-Agent Programming Contest 2019 FIT BUT Team Solution
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 MAPC 2019 Environment
• 1.2 DeSouches and FIT BUT Team at MAPC 2019
• 2 deSouches Multi-agent System
• 2.1 General deSouches and His Soldiers
• 2.2 Agent Level Architecture
• 2.3 Goals
• 2.4 Synchronization of Agent Groups
• 2.5 Scenarios
• 3 FIT BUT System
• 3.1 Design
• 3.2 Synchronization

• 3.3 FIT BUT Agent Reasoning Cycle
• 3.4 Options Analysis
• 3.5 Plan Selection
• 3.6 Action Reservation System
• 3.7 Task Possibilities Commutations
• 4 Limitations and Possible Improvements
• 4.1 Size Control
• 4.2 Hoarding
• 5 Conclusion
• A Team Overview: Short Answers
• A.1 Participants and Their Background
• A.2 Statistics
• A.3 Agent System Details
• A.4 Scenario and Strategy
• A.5 And the Moral of It Is ...
• References
• GOAL-DTU: Development of Distributed Intelligence for the Multi-Agent Programming Contest
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Agent Programming in GOAL

• 2.1 The GOAL Execution Loop
• 2.2 Action Selection
• 3 Strategy
• 4 Agent Knowledge
• 4.1 The Current Position
• 4.2 Visited Positions
• 4.3 Positions of Goal Cells
• 4.4 Blocks, Dispensers and Obstacles
• 4.5 Attached Blocks
• 5 Agent Communication and Shared Knowledge
• 5.1 Encountering Other Agents
• 5.2 Goal Cells and Agent Positions
• 5.3 Attached Blocks
• 6 Agent Movement
• 6.1 Evaluation Functions
• 7 Solving Tasks
• 7.1 Collecting Blocks
• 7.2 Task Planning
• 7.3 Executing Task Plans
• 8 Evaluation of Matches
• 9 Discussion
• 9.1 Changes Since the Contest

This book constitutes the 14th edition of the annual Multi-Agent Programming Contest, MAPC 2019, and presents its participants.The 2019 scenario and all its changes from previous competitions are described in the first contribution, together with a brief description and analysis of the five participating teams and a closer look at the matches. It is followed by a contribution from each team, introducing their methods and tools used to create their agent team and analyzing their performance and the contest.
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• Introduction
• Various Problems in Visual Cryptography
• Cheating Prevention of Visual Cryptography
• Various Visual Cryptography Schemes
• Various Color Schemes of Visual Cryptography
• Various Applications of Visual Cryptography.

This unique text/reference addresses the fundamental concepts in the theory and practice of visual cryptography, a secret sharing technique which allows the encryption of an image without requiring any complex computation or knowledge of cryptography. The design, construction, analysis, and application of visual cryptography schemes (VCSs) are discussed in detail. Original, cutting-edge research is presented on probabilistic, size invariant, threshold, concolorous, and cheating immune VCS. This updated second edition has also been expanded with new content on braille and 2D barcode authentication of visual cryptography shares. Topics and features:? Contains review exercises at the end of each chapter, as well as a helpful glossary (NEW)? Provides a thorough introduction to the field of visual cryptography? Examines various common problems in visual cryptography, including the alignment, flipping, cheating, distortion, and thin line problems? Reviews a range of visual cryptography schemes, including XOR-based visual cryptography and security enriched VCS? Describes different methods for presenting color content using visual cryptographic techniques? Covers such applications of visual cryptography as watermarking, resolution variant VCS, and multiple resolution VCS This logically-structured and comprehensive work will serve as a helpful reference for all researchers and students interested in do<.