Lightweight cryptography methods
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Buchanan, W. J., Li, S., & Asif, R. (2018)
Lightweight cryptography methods. Journal of Cyber Security Technology, 1(3-4), 187-201. https://doi.org/10.1080/23742917.2017.1384917
While our conventional cryptography methods, such for AES (encryption), SHA-256 (hashing) and RSA/Elliptic Curve (signing), work well on systems which have reasonable processi...
Protecting mobile agents from external replay attacks
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Garrigues, C., Migas, N., Buchanan, W., Robles, S., & Borrell, J. (2009)
Protecting mobile agents from external replay attacks. Journal of Systems and Software, 82(2), 197-206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2008.05.018
This paper presents a protocol for the protection of mobile agents against external replay attacks. This kind of attacks are performed by malicious platforms when dispatching ...
A novel privacy preserving method for the location tracking of mobile devices
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Buchanan, W. J., & Kwecka, Z. (2011)
A novel privacy preserving method for the location tracking of mobile devices. Wireless Networks,
Two of the major changes within computing, at the present time, are the move towards serviceoriented architectures and the increasing usage of mobile devices to access these s...
“I am Spartacus”: privacy enhancing technologies, collaborative obfuscation and privacy as a public good
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Kwecka, Z., Buchanan, W. J., Schafer, B., & Rauhofer, J. (2014)
“I am Spartacus”: privacy enhancing technologies, collaborative obfuscation and privacy as a public good. Artificial Intelligence and Law, 22(2), 113-139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10506-014-9155-5
The paper introduces an approach to privacy enhancing technologies that sees privacy not merely as an individual right, but as a public good. This understanding of privacy has...
Hybrid Tree-rule Firewall for High Speed Data Transmission
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Chomsiri, T., He, X., Nanda, P., & Tan, Z. (2016)
Hybrid Tree-rule Firewall for High Speed Data Transmission. IEEE transactions on cloud computing, 1-1. https://doi.org/10.1109/tcc.2016.2554548
Traditional firewalls employ listed rules in both configuration and process phases to regulate network traffic. However, configuring a firewall with listed rules may create ru...
Comparison of Entropy Calculation Methods for Ransomware Encrypted File Identification
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Davies, S., Macfarlane, R., & Buchanan, W. (2022)
Comparison of Entropy Calculation Methods for Ransomware Encrypted File Identification. Entropy, 24(10), Article 1503. https://doi.org/10.3390/e24101503
Ransomware is a malicious class of software that utilises encryption to implement an attack on system availability. The target’s data remains encrypted and is held captive by ...
A Secured and Efficient Communication Scheme for Decentralized Cognitive Radio-Based Internet of Vehicles
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Yao, W., Yahya, A., Khan, F., Tan, Z., Rehman, A. U., Chuma, J. M., …Babar, M. (2019)
A Secured and Efficient Communication Scheme for Decentralized Cognitive Radio-Based Internet of Vehicles. IEEE Access, 7, 160889-160900. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2945610
The advancements in hardware technologies have driven the evolution of vehicular ad hoc networks into the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). The IoV is a decentralized network of IoT...
Scenario-based creation and digital investigation of ethereum ERC20 tokens
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Dyson, S. F., Buchanan, W. J., & Bell, L. (2020)
Scenario-based creation and digital investigation of ethereum ERC20 tokens. Digital Investigation, 32, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsidi.2019.200894
This paper examines the Ethereum network in the context of an investigation. The validation of data sources is achieved through different client software on both the Ropsten n...
Analysis of the adoption of security headers in HTTP.
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Buchanan, W. J., Helme, S., Woodward, A., & Buchanan, B. (2018)
Analysis of the adoption of security headers in HTTP. IET Information Security, 12(2), 118-126. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-ifs.2016.0621
With the increase in the number of threats within Web-based systems, a more integrated approach is required to ensure the enforcement of security policies from the server to t...
Trusted Threat Intelligence Sharing in Practice and Performance Benchmarking through the Hyperledger Fabric Platform
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Ali, H., Ahmad, J., Jaroucheh, Z., Papadopoulos, P., Pitropakis, N., Lo, O., …Buchanan, W. J. (2022)
Trusted Threat Intelligence Sharing in Practice and Performance Benchmarking through the Hyperledger Fabric Platform. Entropy, 24(10), Article 1379. https://doi.org/10.3390/e24101379
Historically, threat information sharing has relied on manual modelling and centralised network systems, which can be inefficient, insecure, and prone to errors. Alternatively...