In this paper, a practical and secure e-mail system (called “PractiSES”) that performs public key distribution and management in a unique way is proposed. PractiSES is a networ...
At Eurocrypt’91, Chaum and van Heyst introduced the concept of group signature. In such a scheme, each group member is allowed to sign messages on behalf of a group anonymously. ...
This paper presents a model of hierarchical organization of Certification Authorities which can be applied to any open system network. In order to study the feasibility of the pro...
In this paper, we propose a new efficient and secure micro-payment scheme, named e-coupons, which can provide the users the facility of delegating their spending capability to oth...
Firewalls have an important role in network security. However, managing firewall policies is an extremely complex task because the large number of interacting rules in single or d...