A Decentralised Authentication and Access Control Mechanism for Medical Wearable Sensors Data
Conference Proceeding
Abubakar, M., Jaroucheh, Z., Al Dubai, A., & Buchanan, W. J. (2021)
A Decentralised Authentication and Access Control Mechanism for Medical Wearable Sensors Data. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Omni-Layer Intelligent Systems (COINS). https://doi.org/10.1109/coins51742.2021.9524172
Recent years have seen an increase in medical big data, which can be attributed to a paradigm shift experienced in medical data sharing induced by the growth of medical techno...
Electromagnetic Analysis of an Ultra-Lightweight Cipher: PRESENT
Conference Proceeding
Gunathilake, N. A., Al-Dubai, A., Buchanan, W. J., & Lo, O. (2021)
Electromagnetic Analysis of an Ultra-Lightweight Cipher: PRESENT. In 10th International Conference on Cryptography and Information Security (CRYPIS 2021) (185-205
Side-channel attacks are an unpredictable risk factor in cryptography. Therefore, continuous observations of physical leakages are essential to minimise vulnerabilities associ...
Phishing URL Detection Through Top-Level Domain Analysis: A Descriptive Approach
Conference Proceeding
Christou, O., Pitropakis, N., Papadopoulos, P., Mckeown, S., & Buchanan, W. J. (2020)
Phishing URL Detection Through Top-Level Domain Analysis: A Descriptive Approach. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy. , (289-298). https://doi.org/10.5220/0008902202890298
Phishing is considered to be one of the most prevalent cyber-attacks because of its immense flexibility and alarmingly high success rate. Even with adequate training and high ...
PoNW: A Secure and Scalable Proof-of-Notarized-Work-Based Consensus Mechanism
Conference Proceeding
Abubakar, M. A., Jaroucheh, Z., Al-Dubai, A., & Buchanan, B. (2020)
PoNW: A Secure and Scalable Proof-of-Notarized-Work-Based Consensus Mechanism. In ICVISP 2020: Proceedings of the 2020 4th International Conference on Vision, Image and Signal Processing (1-8). https://doi.org/10.1145/3448823.3448875
The original consensus algorithm - Proof of Work (PoW) has been widely utilized in the blockchain systems and is been adopted by many cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Eth...
Privacy-preserving Surveillance Methods using Homomorphic Encryption
Conference Proceeding
Bowditch, W., Abramson, W., Buchanan, W. J., Pitropakis, N., & Hall, A. J. (2020)
Privacy-preserving Surveillance Methods using Homomorphic Encryption. In ICISSP: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy. , (240-248). https://doi.org/10.5220/0008864902400248
Data analysis and machine learning methods often involve the processing of cleartext data, and where this could breach the rights to privacy. Increasingly, we must use encrypt...
PoNW: A Secure and Scalable Proof-of-Notarized-Work Based Consensus Mechanism
Conference Proceeding
Abubakar, M., Jaroucheh, Z., Al-Dubai, A., & Buchanan, W. (2020)
PoNW: A Secure and Scalable Proof-of-Notarized-Work Based Consensus Mechanism. In ICVISP 2020: Proceedings of the 2020 4th International Conference on Vision, Image and Signal Processing. https://doi.org/10.1145/3448823.3448875
The original consensus algorithm-Proof of Work (PoW) has been widely utilized in the blockchain systems and is been adopted by many cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ether...
Recent Advances and Trends in Lightweight Cryptography for IoT Security
Conference Proceeding
Gunathilake, N. A., Al-Dubai, A., & Buchanan, W. J. (2020)
Recent Advances and Trends in Lightweight Cryptography for IoT Security. https://doi.org/10.23919/cnsm50824.2020.9269083
Lightweight cryptography is a novel diversion from conventional cryptography to minimise its high level of resource requirements, thus it would impeccably fit in the internet-...
Towards Continuous User Authentication Using Personalised Touch-Based Behaviour
Conference Proceeding
Aaby, P., Giuffrida, M. V., Buchanan, W. J., & Tan, Z. (2020)
Towards Continuous User Authentication Using Personalised Touch-Based Behaviour. In 2020 IEEE Intl Conf on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, Intl Conf on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, Intl Conf on Cloud and Big Data Computing, Intl Conf on Cyber Science and Technology Congress (DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech). https://doi.org/10.1109/DASC-PICom-CBDCom-CyberSciTech49142.2020.00023
In this paper, we present an empirical evaluation of 30 features used in touch-based continuous authentication. It is essential to identify the most significant features for e...
Fast Probabilistic Consensus with Weighted Votes
Conference Proceeding
Müller, S., Penzkofer, A., Ku´smierz, B., Camargo, D., & Buchanan, W. J. (2020)
Fast Probabilistic Consensus with Weighted Votes. In Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2020, Volume 2. , (360-378). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63089-8_24
The fast probabilistic consensus (FPC) is a voting consensus protocol that is robust and efficient in Byzantine infrastructure. We propose an adaption of the FPC to a setting ...
A Distributed Trust Framework for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
Conference Proceeding
Abramson, W., Hall, A. J., Papadopoulos, P., Pitropakis, N., & Buchanan, W. J. (2020)
A Distributed Trust Framework for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning. In Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business. , (205-220). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58986-8_14
When training a machine learning model, it is standard procedure for the researcher to have full knowledge of both the data and model. However, this engenders a lack of trust ...