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EditorialRecent Advances in Information Security

Fei Yu,1 Chin-Chen Chang,2 Muhammad Khurram Khan,3

Tianjie Cao,4 and Mirjana Ivanovic5

1 Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Moscow 117198, Russia2 Feng Chia University, Taichung 40724, Taiwan3 King Saud University, Riyadh 92144, Saudi Arabia4China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221000, China5 University of Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia

Correspondence should be addressed to Fei Yu; [email protected]

Received 20 August 2014; Accepted 20 August 2014; Published 30 December 2014

Copyright © 2014 Fei Yu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, whichpermits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Recent years have witnessed rapid developments of the infor-mation communication technology and the next-generationInternet. We have seen the potential and value for newtechnologies from a variety of digital networks to variousinterconnected digital devices, which make it possible torealize the ubiquitous network and society. But, in such envi-ronment, copyright infringement behaviors, such as illicitcopying, malicious distribution, unauthorized usage, andfree sharing of copyright-protected digital contents, will alsobecome a much more common phenomenon. Researchers,content industry engineers, and administrators attempt toresort to the state-of-the-art technologies and ideas to protectvaluable digital contents and services assets against attacksand IP piracy in the emerging ubiquitous network.

This special issue aims to bring together related researchworks in the realm of ubiquitous network and multimediacontents security and further investigates and discussestrusted solutions and secure techniques for ubiquitous net-work as well as some open issues faced by digital contents,owners/rights, holders/multimedia, and services providers,who dedicate themselves to protect their intellectual propertyrights and business benefits.

This special issue includes a collection of 38 papersselected from 151 submissions to 17 countries or districts(Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong,India, Israel, Korea,Macau,Malaysia, Pakistan, Poland, SaudiArabia, Spain, Taiwan, and USA). All submitted papersfollowed the same standard (peer-reviewed by at least threeindependent reviewers) as applied to regular submissions.

In the paper entitled “Privacy-preserving location-basedquery using location indexes and parallel searching in dis-tributed networks” by C. Zhong et al., an efficient location-based query algorithm of protecting the privacy of the userin the distributed networks is given. This algorithm utilizesthe location indexes of the users andmultiple parallel threadsto search and select quickly all the candidate anonymoussets with more users and their location information withmore uniform distribution to accelerate the execution ofthe temporal-spatial anonymous operations and it allowsthe users to configure their custom-made privacy-preservinglocation query requests.

In the paper entitled “Novel image encryption schemebased on Chebyshev polynomial and Duffing map” by B.Stoyanov and K. Kordov, a novel image encryption algorithmbased on dynamical chaotic systems is proposed. The devel-oped encryption scheme combines Chebyshev polynomialbased on permutation and substitution and Duffing mapbased on substitution. A precise security analysis on the novelencryption algorithm is given.

The paper entitled “On the improvement of Wiener attackon RSA with small private exponent” by M.-E. Wu et al.proposes a method, called EPF, to estimate the prime factorsof an RSA modulus. With EPF, the cost of exhaustivesearch can further reduce to 2r-6 bits. As a conclusion, theauthors would like to point out that with the continuousimprovements in computational capability, the security levelsare expected to be higher with the assistance of EPF and thesecurity analysis should be considered more carefully.

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In the paper entitled “Identifying network public opinionleaders based on Markov logic networks” by W. Zhang et al.,a network opinion leader recognition method based on rela-tional datawas put forward and an opinion leader recognitionsystem integrating public opinion data acquisition module,data characteristic selection, and fusion module as well asopinion leader discovery module based on Markov logicnetworks was designed.

In the paper entitled “A coverage and slicing dependenciesanalysis for seeking software security defects” by H. He et al.based onReverseDataDependenceAnalysisModel to extractdata dependencies between program statements by analyzingthe advantages and disadvantages of the more generallyapplicable CBFL and program structure slicing method, forshortcomings, the authors proposed a new fault localizationmethod CPSS while retaining the advantages.

The paper entitled “Separable and error-free reversibledata hiding in encrypted image with high payload” by Z.Yin et al. proposed a separable and error-free reversibledata-hiding scheme in encrypted image, which significantlyoutperforms the previous methods in the three aspects ofpayload, PSNR, and error rate.

In the paper entitled “Reducing side effects of hidingsensitive itemsets in privacy preserving data mining” by C.-W.Lin et al., a novel hiding-missing-artificial utility (HMAU)algorithm is proposed to hide sensitive itemsets throughtransaction deletion. The transaction with the maximal ratioof sensitive to nonsensitive one is thus selected to be entirelydeleted.

The paper entitled “A complete hierarchical key man-agement scheme for heterogeneous wireless sensor networks”by C.-M. Chen et al. proposes a complete hierarchical keymanagement scheme which only utilizes symmetric crypto-graphic algorithms and low cost operations for heterogeneouscluster-based WSN. The analysis and experiments demon-strate that the proposed scheme is secure and efficient; thus,it is suitable for heterogeneous cluster-based WSN.

The paper entitled “Password-only authenticated three-party key exchange with provable security in the standardmodel” by J. Nam et al. presents the first three-party PAKEprotocol whose security is proven without any idealizedassumptions in a model that captures insider attacks. Themodel that the authors used to prove the security of ourprotocol allows the adversary to ask corrupt queries and thuscaptures insider attacks as well as forward secrecy.

The paper entitled “A secure and fair joint e-lotteryprotocol” by C.-L. Chen et al. presents a novel joint e-lotteryprotocol using the multisignature and verifiable randomfunction. Having been proved, the new mechanism canachieve the requirements of general electronic lotteries.

In the paper entitled “Average gait differential imagebased human recognition” by J. Chen and J. Liu, an averagegait differential image based human recognition method isproposed. The Kernel idea of AGDI is to apply the averageof differential image as the feature image and use the two-dimensional principal component analysis to extract features.

The paper entitled “Dual key speech encryption algorithmbased underdetermined BSS” H. Zhao et al. presents a newdual key encryption scheme based on the underdetermined

BSS problem. The proposed algorithm for speech signalsencryption can resist traditional attacks against the encryp-tion system and, owing to approximate calculation, decryp-tion becomes faster and more accurate.

The paper entitled “High capacity reversible watermarkingfor audio by histogram shifting and predicted error expansion”by F.Wang et al. presents a novel reversible audio watermark-ing algorithm based on improved prediction error expansionand histogram shifting. Experiments show that this algorithmimproves the SNR of embedded audio signals and embeddingcapacity, drastically reduces location map bits length, andenhances capacity control capability.

The paper entitled “A secure RFID authentication protocoladopting error correction code” by C.-M. Chen et al. presentsa lightweight mutual authentication protocol adopting errorcorrection code for RFID. Compared with other lightweightprotocols, the proposed protocol provides stronger resis-tance to tracing attacks, compromising attacks, and replayattacks.

The paper entitled “Date attachable offline electronic cashscheme” by C.-I Fan et al. proposes a provably secure andefficient offline e-cash scheme with date attachability basedon the blind signature technique, where expiration date anddeposit date can be embedded in an e-cash simultaneously.

The paper entitled “Efficient and provable secure pairing-free security-mediated identity-based identification schemes”by J.-J. Chin et al. proposed two SM-IBI schemes that have aninstant revocation feature and are very efficient. The authors’schemes outperform the only pairing-based SM-IBI currentlyknown and are provably secure in the random oracle modelagainst both passive and active/concurrent attackers.

In The paper entitled “A provably secure revocable ID-based authenticated group key exchange protocol with iden-tifying malicious participants” T.-Y. Wu et al. have fused theTseng-Tsai R-IDPKS system and a noninteractive confirmedcomputation technique to propose the first RID-AGKE pro-tocol with identifying malicious participants.The frameworkand security notions for RID-AGKE protocols have beendefined to formalize the possible threats and attacks.

Paper “Automating risk analysis of software designmodels”by M. Frydman et al. describes an approach to reduce theneed for costly human expertise to perform risk analy-sis in software, which is common in secure developmentmethodologies, by automating threat modeling. Reducingthe dependency on security experts aims at reducing thecost of secure development by allowing non-security-awaredevelopers to apply secure development with little to noadditional cost, making secure development more accessible.

The paper entitled “A Regev-type fully homomorphicencryption scheme using modulus switching” by Z. Chen et al.recommends concrete parameter values of our proposedscheme and provide security analysis. The result shows thatthe modified FHE scheme is more efficient than the originalBrakerski scheme in the same security level.

The paper entitled “Countermeasures to avoid noncoop-eration in fully self-organized VANETs” by J. Molina-Gil etal. proposes a new vehicular communication system basedon mobile phones for fully distributed and decentralizednetworks. In these networks, communications depend on

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individual nodes, which could decrease the efficiency andreliability of transmitted information.

The paper entitled “Calculating the number of clusterheads based on the rate-distortion function in wireless sensornetworks” by M. Yang et al. proposes a method for thecalculation of the number of cluster heads based on the rate-distortion function after establishing an energy consumptionmodel according to the data fusion framework in WSNs.

The paper entitled “A game-theoretic response strategy forcoordinator attack in wireless sensor networks” by J. Liu et al.proposes an adaptive coordinator selection algorithm usinggame and fuzzy logic aiming at both minimizing the averagenumber of hops and maximizing network lifetime. The pro-posed game model consists of two interrelated formulations:a stochastic game for dynamic defense and a best responsepolicy using evolutionary game formulation for coordinatorselection.

The paper “A model based security testing method forprotocol implementation” by Y. L. Fu and X. L. Xin proposesan extended model of IOLTS to describe the legal rolesand intruders of security protocol implementations and thencombine them together to generate the suitable test cases toverify the security of protocol implementation.The proposedmodel inherits the clarity of finite automata and can describethe security properties and most of the protocol behaviorswith the definition of transition.

The paper entitled “A comprehensive review on adaptabil-ity of network forensics frameworks for mobile cloud comput-ing” by S. Khan et al. discussed the functions, approaches, andstructures of current NFFs. The authors conclude that newresearch roadmaps and programs are required to overcomethe issues and challenges faced by CSPs. Standardized rules,secure reference models, protocols, trust architectures, legalcontemplation, technological development, and a global reg-ularity body should be established. These requirements canbe achieved by harmonizing the efforts of industrial experts,academic researchers, and investigators under legal entitybodies.

The aim of the paper entitled “Combining digital water-marking and fingerprinting techniques to identify copyrights forcolor images” by S.-L. Hsieh et al. is to present a copyrightidentification scheme for color images that takes advantageof the complementary nature of watermarking and finger-printing. The experimental results showed that when thewatermarked image suffers moderate attacks, watermarkingverification alone is enough to identify the copyright andthere is no need for fingerprinting verification.

The paper entitled “Towards dynamic remote data audit-ing in computational clouds” by M. Sookhak et al. proposesan effectual RDA technique based on algebraic signatureproperties for cloud storage system and also presents anew data structure capable of efficiently supporting dynamicdata operations like append, insert, modify, and delete. Thecomparative analysis with the state-of-the-art RDA schemesshows that the proposed scheme is secure and highly efficientin terms of the computation and communication overhead onthe auditor and server.

The paper entitled “Fuzzy-based trust prediction modelfor routing in WSNs” by X. Anita et al. proposed FTPR

protocol to effectively thwart black hole attack, on-off attack,conflicting behavior attack, and bad-mouthing attack. Itemployed a fuzzy-based trust prediction model to predictthe future behavior of a neighboring node based on itshistorical behavior, trust fluctuations, and recommendationinconsistency.

In the paper entitled “Modeling the propagation of mobilephone virus under complex network” byW. Yang et al., the M-SIS andM-SIR propagation models for mobile phone virusesare proposed, combining with the structural characteristicsof the complex network. The M-SIR propagation model issuitable to describe the vulnerability-exploitingmobile phonevirus. It reflects the characteristic of the mobile virus, whichspreads by exploiting vulnerabilities, and the mobile phonecan be immune to the mobile phone virus after virus removaland patching.

The paper entitled “Malware analysis using visualizedimage matrices” by K. S. Han et al. proposes a novel malwarevisual analysis method that contains not only a visualizationmethod to convert binary files into images, but also asimilarity calculation method between these images. Theproposed method generates RGB-colored pixels on imagematrices using the opcode sequences extracted frommalwaresamples and calculates the similarities for the imagematrices.

The paper entitled “Quality of protection evaluation ofsecurity mechanisms” by B. Ksiezopolski et al. proposes amodel for QoP evaluation of security mechanisms. Owingto this model, one can quantify the influence of particularsecurity mechanisms on ensuring security attributes. Anadditional contribution of the paper is the implementationof the security mechanisms evaluation tool (SMETool) whichsupports the presented method.

A novel approach described to aid breast cancer detectionand classification using digital mammograms is presentedby X.-S. Zhang in his paper entitled “A new approach forclustered MCs classification with sparse features learning andTWSVM.” The proposed method is based on sparse featurelearning and representation, which expresses a testing sampleas a linear combination of the built vocabulary (trainingsamples).

The paper entitled “An action-based fine-grained accesscontrol mechanism for structured documents and its applica-tion” by M. Su et al. presents an action-based fine-grainedaccess control mechanism for structured documents. Bydefining the objective describing model, it could support thepermission management on chapters, pages, sections, words,and pictures of structured documents.

The paper entitled “SmartMal: a service-oriented behav-ioral malware detection framework for mobile devices” byC. Wang et al. presents SmartMal—a novel service-orientedbehavioral malware detection framework for vehicular andmobile devices. The proposed framework relies on client-server architecture, the client continuously extracts variousfeatures and transfers them to the server and the server’smain task is to detect anomalies using state-of-art detectionalgorithms.

In the paper entitled “A new gravitational particle swarmoptimization algorithm for the solution of economic emissiondispatch inwind-thermal power system” by S. Jiang et al., a new

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hybrid optimization approach, namely, gravitational particleswarmoptimization algorithm (GPSOA), is proposed to solveeconomic emission dispatch (EED) problem including windpower.

The paper entitled “An analysis of security system forintrusion in smartphone environment” by M. Louk et al.uses Android OS because the operating system is frequentlyattacked by cybercriminals. Monitoring, detecting, tracking,and notification are used not only to check new applicationbefore being installed into the smartphone, but also to detectsuspicious behavior activity in real time.

The paper entitled “Spatiotemporal access model basedon reputation for the sensing layer of the IoT” by Y. Guoet al. proposes a model that combines space and time withreputation to control access to the information within thesensing layer of the IoT. This model is called spatiotemporalaccess control based on reputation (STRAC).

The paper entitled “Security enhanced anonymous multi-server authenticated key agreement scheme using smart cardsand biometrics” by Y. Choi et al. proposes a security enhancedanonymousmultiserver authenticated key agreement schemewhich addresses all the weaknesses identified in Chuang andChen’s scheme.

The paper entitled “Self-adaptive trust based ABR protocolfor MANETs using Q-learning” by A. V. Kumar et al. focuseson computing a score using Q-learning to weigh the trustof a particular node over associativity based routing (ABR)protocol.

Thepaper entitled “Efficient and privacy-preservingmeter-ing protocols for smart grid systems” by H. J. Jo and D. H.Lee proposes two protocols.The first protocol is based on thesigncryption algorithm and achieves weak confidentiality; itis robust against node compromise attacks. The second oneis an extended version of the first one; it satisfies strongconfidentiality by using the Paillier homomorphic encryptionalgorithm.

Acknowledgments

In particular, we would like to acknowledge the programcommittee members of Sixth International Symposium onInformation Processing (ISIP 2013) and Seventh Interna-tional Workshop on Computer Science and Engineering(WCSE 2014). This issue contains revised and expandedversions of selected quality papers presented either at theSixth International Symposium on Information Processing(ISIP 2013) or at the Seventh International Workshop onComputer Science and Engineering (WCSE 2014). We wishto express our deepest thanks to the program committeemembers for their help in selecting papers for this issue andespecially the referees of the extended versions of the selectedpapers for their thorough reviews under a tight time schedule.The first conference, ISIP 2013 took place on December21-22, 2013, in Changsha, China, and was cosponsored byJiangxi University of Science and Technology, China; Peoples’Friendship University of Russia, Russia; South China Uni-versity of Technology, China; Feng Chia University, Taiwan;Henan Polytechnic University, China; Nanchang Hang KongUniversity, China; and Jiangxi University of Science and

Technology, China. WCSE 2014, took place on June 19-20,2014, in Changsha, China, and was cosponsored by Peoples’FriendshipUniversity of Russia, Russia; FengChiaUniversity,Taiwan; Fudan University, China; South China Universityof Technology, China; Henan Polytechnic University, China;Nanchang Hang Kong University, China; and Jiangxi Uni-versity of Science and Technology, China. In closing, wewould like to take this opportunity to thank the authors forthe efforts they put in the preparation of the papers and inkeeping the deadlines set by editorial requirements. We hopethat you will enjoy reading this special issue as much as wedid putting it together.

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