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The last years have seen a major interest in designing and deploying trust management and public key infrastructures. Yet, it is still far from clear how one can pass from the orga...
Paolo Giorgini, Fabio Massacci, John Mylopoulos, N...
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Safety critical systems, such as aviation systems controlled by software, often have hard real-time requirements. Producing the correct resultat the right time is thefundamental g...
Dynamic group Diffie-Hellman protocols for Authenticated Key Exchange (AKE) are designed to work in a scenario in which the group membership is not known in advance but where parti...
Emmanuel Bresson, Olivier Chevassut, David Pointch...