This thesis proposes several protocols for achieving secure com- putation under concurrent and physical attacks. Secure computation allows many parties to compute a joint function of their inputs, while keeping the privacy ...

Semantic interoperability represents the capability of two or more systems to meaningfully and accurately interpret the exchanged data so as to produce useful results. It is an essential feature of all distributed and open ...

Today public-key cryptographic is widely deployed and successfully used but still a major drawback exists. In fact, from encrypted data a party can either decrypt or cannot learn anything at all about the message other ...

The simplest container of digital information is “the file" and among the vast array of files currently available, MS-Office files are probably the most widely used. These files, starting from MS-Office 2007, respect the ...

The research work focuses on Situation Awareness and Context Awareness topics. Specifically, Situation Awareness involves being aware of what is happening in the vicinity to understand how information, events, and one’s ...