Information Security and Cryptology

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. Invited Paper

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Security Analysis of SM9 Key Agreement and Encryption

      • Zhaohui Cheng

      Pages 3-25

3. Blockchain and Crypto Currency

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. Evaluating CryptoNote-Style Blockchains

      • Runchao Han, Jiangshan Yu, Joseph Liu, Peng Zhang

      Pages 29-48

   3. Goshawk: A Novel Efficient, Robust and Flexible Blockchain Protocol

      • Cencen Wan, Shuyang Tang, Yuncong Zhang, Chen Pan, Zhiqiang Liu, Yu Long et al.

      Pages 49-69

   4. AFCoin: A Framework for Digital Fiat Currency of Central Banks Based on Account Model

      • Haibo Tian, Xiaofeng Chen, Yong Ding, Xiaoyan Zhu, Fangguo Zhang

      Pages 70-85

   5. Anonymity Reduction Attacks to Monero

      • Dimaz Ankaa Wijaya, Joseph Liu, Ron Steinfeld, Dongxi Liu, Tsz Hon Yuen

      Pages 86-100

   6. Analysis of Variance of Graph-Clique Mining for Scalable Proof of Work

      • Hiroaki Anada, Tomohiro Matsushima, Chunhua Su, Weizhi Meng, Junpei Kawamoto, Samiran Bag et al.

      Pages 101-114

4. Lattice-Based Cryptology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115

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   2. Preprocess-then-NTT Technique and Its Applications to Kyber and NewHope

      • Shuai Zhou, Haiyang Xue, Daode Zhang, Kunpeng Wang, Xianhui Lu, Bao Li et al.

      Pages 117-137

   3. Two-Round PAKE Protocol over Lattices Without NIZK

      • Zengpeng Li, Ding Wang

      Pages 138-159

5. Symmetric Cryptology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161

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   2. Improved Integral Attacks on PRESENT-80

      • Shi Wang, Zejun Xiang, Xiangyong Zeng, Shasha Zhang

      Pages 163-182

   3. Improved Differential Fault Analysis on Authenticated Encryption of PAEQ-128

      • Ruyan Wang, Xiaohan Meng, Yang Li, Jian Wang

      Pages 183-199

   4. Improved Indifferentiability Security Bound for the Prefix-Free Merkle-Damgård Hash Function

      • Kamel Ammour, Lei Wang

      Pages 200-219

6. Applied Cryptography

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221

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   2. Privacy-Preserving Data Outsourcing with Integrity Auditing for Lightweight Devices in Cloud Computing

      • Dengzhi Liu, Jian Shen, Yuling Chen, Chen Wang, Tianqi Zhou, Anxi Wang

      Pages 223-239

   3. Cloud-Based Data-Sharing Scheme Using Verifiable and CCA-Secure Re-encryption from Indistinguishability Obfuscation

      • Mingwu Zhang, Yan Jiang, Hua Shen, Bingbing Li, Willy Susilo

      Pages 240-259

   4. An Encrypted Database with Enforced Access Control and Blockchain Validation

      • Zhimei Sui, Shangqi Lai, Cong Zuo, Xingliang Yuan, Joseph K. Liu, Haifeng Qian

      Pages 260-273

This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Inscrypt 2018, held in Fuzhou, China, in December 2018.


The 31 full papers presented together with 5 short papers and 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. The papers cover topics in the field of blockchain and crypto currency; lattice-based cryptology; symmetric cryptology; applied cryptography; information security; assymetric encryption; and foundations.

• cryptography
• formal methods and theory of security
• security services
• intrusion/anomaly detection and malware mitigation
• systems security
• network security
• database and storage security
• software and application security
• human and societal aspects of security and privacy
• security in hardware

• University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

  Fuchun Guo

• Fujian Normal University, Fujian, China

  Xinyi Huang

• Columbia University, New York, USA

  Moti Yung

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