Efficient identity-based GQ multisignatures

ISO/IEC 14888 specifies a variety of digital signature mechanisms to sign messages of arbitrary length. These schemes can be applied to provide entity authentication, data origin authentication, non-repudiation, and data integrity verification. ISO/IEC 14888 consists of three parts under the general title Information technology—Security techniques—Digital signatures. Part II, or ISO/IEC 14888-2 specifies the general structure and the fundamental procedures for the generation and verification of an identity-based signature (IBS) mechanism for messages of arbitrary length. Particularly, the IBS scheme of Guillou and Quisquater (GQ) is described in Clauses 6–8. In this paper, an efficient identity-based multisignature (IBMS) scheme is proposed for the GQ IBS scheme, which allows multiple users using the ISO/IEC 14888-2 standard GQ scheme to generate multisignatures. The scheme is efficient in the sense that both the length and the verification time of the multisignatures are fixed. The proposed ID-based multisignature scheme is also secure against forgeability under adaptive chosen-message attack and adaptive chosen-identity attack in random oracle model.     

High-Temperature Creep Behavior of Mixed Conducting La0.5Sr0.5Fe1−xCoxO3-δ (0.5≤x≤1) Materials

Steady-state compressive creep rate of La_0.5Sr_0.5Fe_0.5Co_0.5O_3−δ (LSFC) and La_0.5Sr_0.5CoO_3−δ (LSC) is reported in the temperature region 900°–1050°C and stress range 5–28 MPa. The stress exponents for the two materials were 1.71±0.18 and 1.24±0.15, respectively. The activation energy for creep was considerably higher for LSC (619±56 kJ/mol) than for LSFC (392±28 kJ/mol). The grain size exponent for LSC was 1.28±0.14. Considerably higher creep rates were observed for both materials in N₂ compared with air. Relaxation by creep of chemical-induced stresses in oxygen-permeable membranes is addressed, especially at low partial pressure of oxygen.     

Simultaneous translational temperature measurements of different atomic species in plasma flows using scanning Fabry-Perot interferometry

A revised scientific instrument to measure simultaneously kinetic temperatures of different atoms from their optical emission profile is reported. Emission lines are simultaneously detected using one single scanning Fabry-Perot-interferometer (FPI) for a combined spectroscopic setup to acquire different emission lines simultaneously. The setup consists in a commercial Czerny-Turner spectrometer configuration which is combined with a scanning Fabry-Perot interferometer. The fast image acquisition mode of an intensified charge coupled device camera allows the detection of a wavelength interval of interest continuously while acquiring the highly resolved line during the scan of the FPI ramp. Results using this new setup are presented for the simultaneous detection of atomic nitrogen and oxygen in a high enthalpy air plasma flow as used for atmospheric re-entry research and their respective kinetic temperatures derived from the measured line profiles. The paper presents the experimental setup, the calibration procedure, and an exemplary result. The determined temperatures are different, a finding that has been published so far as due to a drawback of the experimental setup of sequential measurements, and which has now to be investigated in more detail.     

医疗大数据隐私保护多关键词范围搜索方案

随着医疗信息系统的急速发展,基于医疗云的信息系统将大量电子健康记录(EHRs)存储在医疗云系统中,利用医疗云强大的存储能力和计算能力对EHRs数据进行安全与统一的管理.尽管传统加密机制可以保证医疗数据在半诚实云服务器中的机密性,但对加密后的EHRs数据执行安全、快速、有效的范围搜索,仍是一个有待解决的关键问题.提出一种...     

Centralized Group Key Establishment Protocol without a Mutually Trusted Third Party

The type of centralized group key establishment protocols is the most commonly used one due to its efficiency in computation and communication. A key generation center (KGC) in this type of protocols acts as a server to register users initially. Since the KGC selects a group key for group communication, all users must trust the KGC. Needing a mutually trusted KGC can cause problem in some applications. For example, users in a social network cannot trust the network server to select a group key for a secure group communication. In this paper, we remove the need of a mutually trusted KGC by assuming that each user only trusts himself. During registration, each user acts as a KGC to register other users and issue sub-shares to other users. From the secret sharing homomorphism, all sub-shares of each user can be combined into a master share. The master share enables a pairwise shared key between any pair of users. A verification of master shares enables all users to verify their master shares are generated consistently without revealing the master shares. In a group communication, the initiator can become the server to select a group key and distribute it to each other user over a pairwise shared channel. Our design is unique since the storage of each user is minimal, the verification of master shares is efficient and the group key distribution is centralized. There are public-key based group key establishment protocols without a trusted third party. However, these protocols can only establish a single group key. Our protocol is a non-public-key solution and can establish multiple group keys which is computationally efficient.     

Chemical compatibility of proton conducting LaNbO4 electrolyte with potential oxide cathodes

The chemical and physical compatibility of the proton conducting electrolyte material LaNbO₄ with the potential partner materials LaMO₃ (MMn, Fe, Co) and La₂NiO₄ is investigated via the reaction of fine-grained powders and solid-state diffusion couples. Results show generally good chemical compatibility for LaNbO₄ with perovskite type compositions, particularly the LaFeO₃ and LaMnO₃ systems. In contrast, Ruddlesden–Popper type phases are predicted to be poor candidates for use with LaNbO₄. Investigation of the La₂O₃–NiO–Nb₂O₅ and La₂O₃–CoO–Nb₂O₅ phase diagrams finds two new perovskite-related materials of stoichiometry LaNb_1/3M_2/3O₃ (MNi, Co), and indicates coexistence of LaNbO₄ with the binary oxides NiO and CoO. Additionally, reduction of a LaNbO₄–NiO composite confirms coexistence of LaNbO₄ with Ni, and so it is concluded that doped-LaMO₃|LaNbO₄|Ni-LaNbO₄ type electrochemical cells may be manufactured via a direct co-firing route without the formation of secondary phases at inter-phase boundaries.