Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are integrations of computation with physical processes. Applications of CPS arguably have the potential to overshadow the 20-th century IT revolution. Nowadays, CPSs application to many sectors ...

Entity authentication is the process allowing a user, in a distributed system, to gain confidence in the identity of one (or more) communication user. Such a process may be either unilateral (the users are involved in a ...

The following doctoral thesis comprises two distinct sections, both describing a specific applied research concerning the macro-theme of computer security. The first section describes a proposal for the improvement and ...