With the rapid development of cloud computing, the enterprises and individuals can outsource their sensitive data into the cloud server where they can enjoy high quality data storage and computing services in a ubiquitous manner. This is known as the outsourcing computation paradigm. Recently, the problem for securely outsourcing various expensive computations or storage has attracted considerable attention in the academic community. In this book, we focus on the latest technologies and ap...

This book provides a thorough overview of the evolution of privacy-preserving machine learning schemes over the last ten years, after discussing the importance of privacy-preserving techniques. In response to the diversity of Internet services, data services based on machine learning are now available for various applications, including risk assessment and image recognition. In light of open access to datasets and not fully trusted environments, machine learning-based applications face eno...

This volume LNCS 14252 constitutes the refereed proceedings of 25th International Conference on Information and Communications Security*, ICICS 2023, held in Tianjin, China, during November 18–20, 2023.*The 38 full papers presented together with 6 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 181 submissions. The conference focuses on: Symmetric-Key Cryptography; Public-Key Cryptography; Applied Cryptography; Authentication and Authorization; Pri...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Inscrypt 2017, held in Xi'an, China, in November 2017.The 27 revised full papers presented together with 5 keynote speeches were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: cryptographic protocols and algorithms; digital signatures; encryption; cryptanalysis and att...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Data Security and Privacy Protection, DSPP 2025, held in Xi'an, China, during October 16–18, 2025.The 36 full papers and 11 short papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 submissions.The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I:AI and System Security; Blockchain and Related Technologies; Privacy Preserving/Enhancing Technologie...

Machine learning boosts the capabilities of security solutions in the modern cyber environment. However, there are also security concerns associated with machine learning models and approaches: the vulnerability of machine learning models to adversarial attacks is a fatal flaw in the artificial intelligence technologies, and the privacy of the data used in the training and testing periods is also causing increasing concern among users.This book reviews the latest research in the ar...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Data Security and Privacy Protection, DSPP 2024, held in Xi'an, China, during October 25-28, 2024.The 34 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 99 submissions. The DSPP 2024 conference promotes and stimulates discussion on the latest theories, algorithms, applications, and emerging topics on data security and privacy protection. It encourages the cross-fert...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Information Security, ISC 2022, which took place in Bali, Indonesia, in December 2022.The 21 full papers and 8 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: Cryptography; Post-Quantum Cryptography; Cryptanalysis; Blockchain; Email and Web Security; Malware; and AI Security.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Social Networks and Big Data, SocialSec 2022, which took place in Xi'an, China, in October 2022.The 23 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions. The papers were evaluated on the basis of their significance, novelty, technical quality, as well as on their practical impact or their level of advancement of the field’s foundations. They we...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Data Security and Privacy Protection, DSPP 2025, held in Xi'an, China, during October 16–18, 2025.The 36 full papers and 11 short papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 submissions.The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I:AI and System Security; Blockchain and Related Technologies; Privacy Preserving/Enhancing Technologie...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4thInternational Conference on Security and Privacy in New Computing Environments, SPNCE 2021, held in December 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.The 33 full papers were selected from 61 submissions and focus on security and privacy in new computing environments. The theme of SPNCE 2021 was “Secure Wireless Communication Systems: Infrastructure, Algorithms, and Management”.

Blockchain technologies, as an emerging distributed architecture and computing paradigm, have accelerated the development/application of the Cloud/GPU/Edge Computing, Artificial Intelligence, cyber physical systems, social networking, crowdsourcing and crowdsensing, 5G, trust management, and finance. The popularity and rapid development of Blockchain brings many technical and regulatory challenges for research and academic communities. This book will feature contributions from experts on t...