Overview
- Securing exam systems is necessary to ensure fairness and meritocracy in modern societies
- Author introduces a novel approach to securing exam systems
- Useful for researchers and graduate students in the areas of information security, in particular protocols
Part of the book series: Information Security and Cryptography (ISC)
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In this book the author introduces a novel approach to securing exam systems. He provides an in-depth understanding, useful for studying the security of exams and similar systems, such as public tenders, personnel selections, project reviews, and conference management systems.
After a short chapter that explains the context and objectives of the book, in Chap. 2 the author introduces terminology for exams and the foundations required to formulate their security requirements. He describes the tasks that occur during an exam, taking account of the levels of detail and abstraction of an exam specification and the threats that arise out of the different exam roles. He also presents a taxonomy that classifies exams by types and categories. Chapter 3 contains formal definitions of the authentication, privacy, and verifiability requirements for exams, a framework based on the applied pi-calculus for the specification of authentication and privacy, and a more abstract approach based on set-theory that enables the specification of verifiability. Chapter 4 describes the Huszti-Pethő protocol in detail and proposes a security enhancement. In Chap. 5 the author details Remark!, a protocol for Internet-based exams, discussing its cryptographic building blocks and some security considerations. Chapter 6 focuses on WATA, a family of computer-assisted exams that employ computer assistance while keeping face-to-face testing. The chapter also introduces formal definitions of accountability requirements and details the analysis of a WATA protocol against such definitions. In Chaps. 4, 5, and 6 the author uses the cryptographic protocol verifier ProVerif for the formal analyses. Finally, the author outlines future work in Chap. 7.
The book is valuable for researchers and graduate students in the areas of information security, in particular for people engaged with exams or protocols.
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Book Title: Modelling and Verification of Secure Exams
Authors: Rosario Giustolisi
Series Title: Information Security and Cryptography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67107-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-67106-2Published: 27 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09789-9Published: 04 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-67107-9Published: 19 March 2018
Series ISSN: 1619-7100
Series E-ISSN: 2197-845X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 133
Topics: Data Structures and Information Theory, Information Systems and Communication Service, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages, Revision and Exam, Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing