Leadership,communication,and science:three pillars essential to public health emergency response and closing the gap in the HIV response among key populations

Globally,there have been multiple public health emergencies in recent decades.High rates of morbidity,occasionally mortality,and economic instability are usually associated with pandemics.One of the epidemics that has significantly increased morbidity and mortality worldwide is the human immunodeficiency virus(HIV)and acquired immune deficiency syndrome(AIDS)pandemic.HIV has a disproportionately negative impact on key populations.Strong leadership,effective communication,and sound science are necessary for public health emergency(PHE)responses to be successful.These three PHE response pllars are also essential for bridging the HIV response gap among key populations in the setting of restrictive laws.In this review,we explored the importance of these three pillars of successful PHEs responses,and how they are essential to closing the gap in the HIV response among key populations.Leaders must make decisions and instil a sense of authority in the populace during PHEs to foster trust and confidence.Leaders should base their choices on scientific evidence.Effective communication during PHEs should be proactive,polite,imaginative,innovative,and constructive.To address gaps in the HIV response among key populations,leaders must create a supportive environment for effective communication and scientific research,communication should be used to raise awareness of HIV and to dispel stigma and discrimination,while science should provide evidence of efficacy and effectiveness of interventions amongkey populations.

ID-based Key-insulated Authenticated Key Agreement Protocol

The basic idea behind an ID-based cryptosystem is that end user's public key can be determined by his identity information.Comparing with the traditional certificate-based cryptography,identity-based cryptography can eliminate much of the overhead associated with the deployment and management of certificate.However,exposure of private keys can be the most devastating attack on a public key based cryptosystem since such that all security guarantees are lost.In this paper,an ID-based authenticated key agreement protocol was presented.For solving the problem of key exposure of the basic scheme,the technique of key insulation was applied and a key insulated version is developed.

Improved ID-Based Signature Scheme Solving Key Escrow

Key escrow is an inherent disadvantage for traditional ID-based cryptosystem, i.e., the dishonest private key generator (PKG) can forge the signature of any user, meanwhile, the user can deny the signature actually signed by him/herself. To avoid the keyescrow problem, an ID-based signature scheme was presented without trusted PKG. The exact proof of security was presented to demonstrate that our scheme is secure against existential forgery on adaptively chosen message and ID attacks assuming the complexity of computational Diffie-Hellman (CDH) problem. Compared with other signature schemes, the proposed scheme is more efficient.

ID-Based Authenticated Dynamic Group Key Agreement

Two ID-based authenticated group key agreement schemes, proposed by Choi et al and Du et al, are insecure against an impersonation attack and th ey only discussed the static group. This paper proposed a variant of BD protocol , which is fully authenticated by a proven-secure ID-based signature scheme. T he protocol can res ist the impersonation attack, and other security attributes are also satisfied. Compared with Choi et al and Du et al schemes, the proposed one is mor e efficient and applicable for dynamic groups.

An ID-Based Authenticated Key Agreement Protocol for Peer-to-Peer Computing

Peer-to-peer computing has recently started to gain significant acceptance, since it can greatly increase the performance and reliability of overall system. However, the security issue is still a major gating factor for its full adoption. In order to guarantee the security of data exchanged between two peers in Peer-to-Peer system, this paper comes up with an ID-based authenticated key agreement from bilinear pairings and uses BAN logic to prove the protocol’s security. Compared with other existing protocols, the proposed protocol seems more secure and efficient, since it adopts the static shared Diffie-Hellman key.

Two-Party Authenticated Key Agreement in Certificateless Public Key Cryptography

Certificateless public key cryptography was introduced to overcome the key escrow limitation of the identity-based cryptography. It combines the advantages of the identity-based cryptography and the traditional PKI. Many certificateless public key encryption and signature schemes have been proposed. However, the key agreement in CL-PKE is seldom discussed. In this paper, we present a new certificateless two party authentication key agreement protocol and prove its security attributes. Compared with the existing protocol, our protocol is more efficient.

Certificateless Public Key Encryption with Keyword Search

Public Key Encryption with Keyword Search （PEKS）, an indispensable part of searchable encryption, is stock-in- trade for both protecting data and providing operability of encrypted data. So far most of PEKS schemes have been established on Identity-Based Cryptography （IBC） with key escrow problem inherently. Such problem severely restricts the promotion of IBC-based Public Key Infrastructure including PEKS component. Hence, Certificateless Public Key Cryptography （CLPKC） is efficient to remove such problem. CLPKC is introduced into PEKS, and a general model of Certificateless PEKS （CLPEKS） is formalized. In addition, a practical CLPEKS scheme is constructed with security and efficiency analyses. The proposal is secure channel free, and semantically secure against adaptive chosen keyword attack and keyword guessing attack. To illustrate the superiority, massive experiments are conducted on Enron Email dataset which is famous in information retrieval field. Compared with existed constructions, CLPEKS improves the efficiency in theory and removes the key escrow problem.

Efficient Authenticated Key Agreement Protocol Using Self-Certified Public Keys from Pairings

An efficient authenticated key agreement protocol is proposed, which makesuse of bilinear pairings and self-certificd public keys. Its security is based on the securityassumptions of the bilinear Diff ie-Hellman problem and the computational Diffie-Hellman problem.Users can choose their private keys independently. The public keys and identities of users can beverified implicitly when the session key being generating in a logically single step. A trusted KeyGeneration Center is no longer requiredas in the ID-based authenticated key agreement protocolsCompared with existing authenticated key agreement protocols from pairings, the. new proposedprotocol is more efficient and secure.

Public Key Cryptography Based on Ergodic Matrices over Finite Field

A new public key encryption scheme is proposed in this paper, which is based on a hard problem over ergodic matrices. The security of this scheme is equal to the MQ-problem： multivariate quadratic equations over finite fields. This problem has been shown to be NP-complete and can＇t be solved with polynomial time algorithm.

Self-Organized Public-Key Management for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Based on a Bidirectional Trust Model

In traditional networks , the authentication is performed by certificate authoritys（CA）,which can＇t be built in distributed mobile Ad Hoc Networks however. In this pa per, we propose a fully self-organized public key management based on bidirectional trust model without any centralized authority that allows users to generate their public-private key pairs, to issue certificates, and the trust relation spreads rationally according to the truly human relations. In contrast with the traditional self-organized public-key management, the average certificates paths get more short, the authentication passing rate gets more high and the most important is that the bidirectional trust based model satisfys the trust re quirement of hosts better.

A New Proxy Signature Scheme with Message Recovery Using Self-Certified Public Key

A proxy signature scheme with message recovery using self-certified public key is proposed, which withstands public key substitution attacks, active attacks, and forgery attacks. The proposed scheme accomplishes the tasks of public key verification, proxy signature verification, and message recovery in a logically single step. In addition, the proposed scheme satisfies all properties of strong proxy signature and does not use secure channel in the communication between the original signer and the proxy signature signer.

Multivariate Public-Key Encryption Scheme Based on Error Correcting Codes

Advances in quantum computers pose potential threats to the currently used public-key cryptographic algorithms such as RSA and ECC.As a promising candidate against attackers equipped with quantum computational power,Multivariate Public-Key Cryptosystems(MPKCs)has attracted increasing attention in recently years.Unfortunately,the existing MPKCs can only be used as multivariate signature schemes,and the way to construct an efficient MPKC enabling secure encryption remains unknown.By employing the basic MQ-trapdoors,this paper proposes a novel multivariate encryption scheme by combining MPKCs and code-based public-key encryption schemes.Our new construction gives a positive response to the challenges in multivariate public key cryptography.Thorough analysis shows that our scheme is secure and efficient,and its private key size is about 10 times smaller than that of McEliece-type cryptosystems.

An Internet Key Exchange Protocol Based on Public Key Infrastructure

Internet key exchange (IKE) is an automated key exchange mechanism that is used to facilitate the transfer of IPSec security associations (SAs). Public key infrastructure (PKI) is considered as a key element for providing security to new distributed communication networks and services. In this paper, we concentrate on the properties of the protocol of Phase 1 IKE. After investigating IKE protocol and PKI technology, we combine IKE protocol and PKI and present an implementation scheme of the IKE based on PKI. Then, we give a logic analysis of the proposed protocol with the BAN-logic and discuss the security of the protocol. The result indicates that the protocol is correct and satisfies the security requirements of Internet key exchange.

A Multivariate Public Key Cryptographic Scheme

This paper presents a multivariate public key cryptographic scheme over a finite field with odd prime characteristic.The idea of embedding and layering is manifested in its construction.The security of the scheme is analyzed in detail,and this paper indicates that the scheme can withstand the up to date differential cryptanalysis.We give heuristic arguments to show that this scheme resists all known attacks.

Secured Cloud Data Migration Technique by Competent Probabilistic Public Key Encryption

Cloud computing, a recently emerged paradigm faces major challenges in achieving the privacy of migrated data, network security, etc. Too many cryptographic technologies are raised to solve these issues based on identity, attributes and prediction algorithms yet;these techniques are highly prone to attackers. This would raise a need of an effective encryption technique, which would ensure secure data migration. With this scenario, our proposed methodology Efficient Probabilistic Public Key Encryption(EPPKE) is optimized with Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategies(CMA-ES). It ensures data integrity through the Luhn algorithm with BLAKE 2b encapsulation. This enables an optimized security to the data which is migrated through cloud. The proposed methodology is implemented in Open Stack with Java Language. It achieves better results by providing security compared to other existing techniques like RSA, IBA, ABE, PBE, etc.

A New Fast Modular Arithmetic Method in Public Key Cryptography

Modular arithmetic is a fundamental operation and plays an important role in public key cryptosystem. A new method and its theory evidence on the basis of modular arithmetic with large integer modulus-changeable modulus algorithm is proposed to improve the speed of the modular arithmetic in the presented paper. For changeable modulus algorithm, when modular computation of modulo n is difficult, it can be realized by computation of modulo n-1 and n-2 on the perquisite of easy modular computations of modulo n-1 and modulo n-2. The conclusion is that the new method is better than the direct method by computing the modular arithmetic operation with large modulus. Especially, when computations of modulo n-1 and modulo n-2 are easy and computation of modulo n is difficult, this new method will be faster and has more advantages than other algorithms on modular arithmetic. Lastly, it is suggested that the proposed method be applied in public key cryptography based on modular multiplication and modular exponentiation with large integer modulus effectively

Public Key Cryptosystem Based on Two Sided Action of Different Exotic Semirings

The idempotent semirings Rmax and Rmin play a crucial role in several areas of mathematics and their applications such as discrete mathematics, algebraic geometry, computer science, computer languages, linguistic problems, optimization theory, discrete event systems, fuzzy logics. In this paper we consider the expansion of the semirings Rmax and Rmin with residuals and describe how to use these expended semirings in public key cryptography.

A New Self-Generated-Certificate Public Key Encryption Scheme with Flexible Public Key

Self-Generated-Certificate Public Key Cryptography(SGC-PKC) ,is the enhanced version of Certificateless Public Key Cryptography(CL-PKC) . It preserves all advantages of CL-PKC. Similar to CL-PKC,every user is given a partial private key by the KGC and generates his own private key and corresponding public key. In addition,it can defend against the Denial-of-Decryption(DoD) Attack. In this paper,we propose a new approach to construction SGC-PKE scheme that derived from a new application of chameleon hash and give a concrete scheme. It is the first scheme which has flexible public key and reaches Girault's trusted level 3,the same level as is enjoyed in a traditional PKI.

Novel Hyper-Combined Public Key Based Cloud Storage Key Management Scheme

In order to ensure the security of cloud storage, on the basis of the analysis of cloud storage security requirements, this paper puts forward a kind of＂ hidden mapping hyper-combined public key management scheme based on the hyperelliptic curve crypto system, which is applicable to the distributed cloud storage. A series of operation processes of the key management are elaborated, including key distribution, key updating and key agreement, etc. Analysis shows that the scheme can solve the problem of large-scale key management and storage issues in cloud storage effectively. The scheme feathers high efficiency and good scalability. It is able to resist collusion attack and ensure safe and reliable service provided by the cloud storaee system

New Public Key Cryptosystems from Combinatorial Group Theory

External direct product of some low layer groups such as braid groups and general Artin groups, with a kind of special group action on it, provides a secure cryptographic computation platform, which can keep secure in the quantum computing epoch. Three hard problems on this new platform, Subgroup Root Problem, Multi-variant Subgroup Root Problem and Subgroup Action Problem are presented and well analyzed, which all have no relations with conjugacy. New secure public key encryption system and key agreement protocol are designed based on these hard problems. The new cryptosystems can be implemented in a general group environment other than in braid or Artin groups.