Theory and Practice of Cryptography Solutions for Secure Information Systems

Information Systems (IS) are a nearly omnipresent aspect of the modern world, playing crucial roles in the fields of science and engineering, business and law, art and culture, politics and government, and many others. As such, identity theft and unauthorized access to these systems are serious concerns. Theory and Practice of Cryptography Solutions for Secure Information Systems explores current trends in IS security technologies, techniques, and concerns, primarily through the use of cryptographic tools to safeguard valuable information resources. This reference book serves the needs of professionals, academics, and students requiring dedicated information systems free from outside interference, as well as developers of secure IS applications. This book is part of the Advances in Information Security, Privacy, and Ethics series collection.

Atilla Elçi is full professor and chairman of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Aksaray University, Aksaray, Turkey. He was full professor and chairman of computer and educational technology at Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey. He served as full professor of computer engineering, the founding director of the Graduate School of Science and Technology, and the dean of Engineering Faculty at Toros University, Mersin, Turkey; with the Computer Engineering Program, Middle East Technical University; Eastern Mediterranean University where he established the Internet Technologies Research Center and semantic robotics lab; Haliç University, Istanbul, Turkey, founder and chair of the Computer Engineering Department; the International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switzerland, as chief technical advisor; METU Ankara, Turkey, where he was chair and assistant chair of Computer Engineering Department; Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana, USA, as research assistant. His research and experience encompass web semantics, agent-based systems, robotics, machine learning, knowledge representation and ontology, information security, software engineering, and natural language translation.

Josef Pieprzyk is a Professor, Chair of Computing, at Macquarie University. His main research interest focus is Cryptology and Computer Security and includes design and analysis of cryptographic algorithms (such as encryption, hashing and digital signatures), secure multiparty computations, cryptographic protocols, copyright protection, e-commerce, web security and cybercrime prevention. He is serving on many program committees of international conferences. Professor Pieprzyk published 5 books, edited 10 books, 6 book chapters, and ~200 papers in refereed journals and international conferences.

Alexander G. Chefranov holds the degrees of a Ph.D. (Computer Science) and a Doctor of Engineering Sciences. He is currently an Associate Professor of the Department of Computer Engineering, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, North Cyprus. There he was one of the founders of Internet Technologies Research Center and served as its Director. Prior to joining Eastern Mediterranean University, he was a professor at the Department of Software Engineering at Taganrog State University of Radio-Engineering in Russia. His research interests in information security include symmetric and asymmetric ciphers, authentication and key exchange protocols, database security.

Mehmet A. Orgun is a professor at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in computer science and engineering from Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey respectively; and his PhD degree in computer science from the University of Victoria, Canada in 1991. He serves on the editorial boards of The Journal of Universal Computer Science, and Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering.

Huaxiong Wang received a PhD in Mathematics from University of Haifa, Israel and a PhD in Computer Science from University of Wollongong, Australia. He Joined Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and is currently an associate professor in the Division of Mathematical Sciences.

Rajan Shankaran is a senior lecturer at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He received the MBA (MIS) degree in Information Systems Maastricht School of Management; and MSc (Honours) and PhD degrees in Computing from the University of Western Sydney.