8 research outputs found
Reflective-Physically Unclonable Function based System for Anti-Counterfeiting
Physically unclonable functions (PUF) are physical security mechanisms, which utilize inherent randomness in processes used to instantiate physical objects. In this dissertation, an extensive overview of the state of the art in implementations, accompanying definitions and their analysis is provided. The concept of the reflective-PUF is presented as a product security solution. The viability of the concept, its evaluation and the requirements of such a system is explored
D.STVL.9 - Ongoing Research Areas in Symmetric Cryptography
This report gives a brief summary of some of the research trends in symmetric cryptography at the time of writing (2008). The following aspects of symmetric cryptography are investigated in this report: • the status of work with regards to different types of symmetric algorithms, including block ciphers, stream ciphers, hash functions and MAC algorithms (Section 1); • the algebraic attacks on symmetric primitives (Section 2); • the design criteria for symmetric ciphers (Section 3); • the provable properties of symmetric primitives (Section 4); • the major industrial needs in the area of symmetric cryptography (Section 5)
Advances in Information Security and Privacy
With the recent pandemic emergency, many people are spending their days in smart working and have increased their use of digital resources for both work and entertainment. The result is that the amount of digital information handled online is dramatically increased, and we can observe a significant increase in the number of attacks, breaches, and hacks. This Special Issue aims to establish the state of the art in protecting information by mitigating information risks. This objective is reached by presenting both surveys on specific topics and original approaches and solutions to specific problems. In total, 16 papers have been published in this Special Issue
Communication as Symbiogenesis – On the Relationality of Mobile Phoning in Korea
This study understands communication as parasitic and symbiogenetic. It recognizes an object or technology no less and no more important than a subject, and appreciates the “process” of the “becoming” of both a subject and an object. Media and individuals create and recreate each other. In the symbiogenetic space in-between, what happens is not a physical addition of a technological object to an individual, but, rather, it is a chemical fusion of the two, which holds unprecedented, distinctive qualities that have not been seen from any of the two constituents. Among various communication media, this study examines why and how the mobile phone is particularly parasitic and symbiogenetic
Hierarchies, Logics and Foundations of Social Order Seen Through the Prism of EU Social Rights
It has been the purpose of this dissertation to analyze a contemporary battlefield of law,
the field of EU social rights, from a political-philosophical point of view.
It is the conviction of the dissertation that law is deeply and inescapably conceptually
connected with fundamental features of social order. Law and social order are not
presumed to be identical, but to be mutually constitutive. The interrelations between
the two do not merely concern the rights and obligations explicitly laid down in the
law, but fundamental presumptions regarding the nature of human beings, overall
purposes of social order, hierarchical and dynamical features of society and the
possibility at all of regulation, its logics and sources of authority.
On the basis of a historical-conceptual understanding of law according to which law,
social structure and metaphysical presumptions are inescapably intertwined, the
dissertation derives from the binding provisions of law certain essential features of
social order. More precisely, the dissertation demonstrates that from a political
philosophical point of view, EU social rights can be said to imply the contours of a
particular social order. Significantly, the essential features in question are derived
through detailed analyses of EU social rights - through critical investigations of
definitions of right-holders, material scope, legal core concepts, exclusions and
justifications, complexities and ambiguities of interpretation. The general point is the
following: Political philosophical features of social order may not only be derived from
the overall constitutional aspects of law (in the case of EU-law: fundamental principles
inscribed in the Treaty; the constitutional architecture of EU-law), but are implied in the
detailed material web of secondary law