The idea and perception of good cyber security protection remains at the forefront of many
organizations' information and communication technology strategy and investment …

Stealing attack against controlled information, along with the increasing number of
information leakage incidents, has become an emerging cyber security threat in recent …

Due to the limitations of symmetric-key techniques, authentication and key agreement (AKA)
protocols based on public-key techniques have attracted much attention, providing secure …

The widespread use of mobile devices, sensors, and wireless sensor networks and the
progressive development of the Internet of Things (IoT) has motivated medical and health …

As the most prevailing two-factor authentication mechanism, smart-card-based password
authentication has been a subject of intensive research in the past two decades, and …

A user (external party) is interested in accessing the real-time data from some designated
drones of a particular fly zone in the Internet of Drones (IoD) deployment. However, to …

Industrial wireless sensor network (IWSN) is an emerging class of a generalized WSN
having constraints of energy consumption, coverage, connectivity, and security. However …

With the nonlinearity and plasticity, memristors are widely used as nonlinear devices for
chaotic oscillations or as biological synapses for neuromorphic computations. But discrete …

Dozens of two-factor authentication schemes have been proposed to secure real-time data
access in industrial wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, more often than not, the …

Despite three decades of intensive research efforts, it remains an open question as to what
is the underlying distribution of user-generated passwords. In this paper, we make a …