A major new professional reference work on fingerprint security systems and technology from leading international researchers in the field Handbook provides authoritative and comprehensive coverage of all major topics, concepts, and methods for fingerprint security systems This unique reference work is an absolutely essential resource for all biometric security professionals, researchers, and systems administrators

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Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition

Authors Jan L. Brozek, MD, PhD – Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada Jean Bousquet, MD, PhD – Service des Maladies Respiratoires, Hopital Arnaud de Villeneuve, Montpellier, France, INSERM, CESP U1018, Respiratory and Environmental Epidemiology Team, France, and WHO Collaborating Center for Rhinitis and Asthma Carlos E. Baena-Cagnani, MD – Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina Sergio Bonini, MD – Institute of Neurobiology and Molecular Medicine – CNR, Rome, Italy and Department of Medicine, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy G. Walter Canonica, MD – Allergy & Respiratory Diseases, DIMI, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy Thomas B. Casale, MD – Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA Roy Gerth van Wijk, MD, PhD – Section of Allergology, Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Ken Ohta, MD, PhD – Division of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Department of Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan Torsten Zuberbier, MD – Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany Holger J. Schunemann, MD, PhD, MSc – Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

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Allergic Rhinitis and Its Impact on Asthma

The European Position Paper on Rhinosinusitis and Nasal Polyps 2020 is the update of similar evidence based position papers published in 2005 and 2007 and 2012. The core objective of the EPOS2020 guideline is to provide revised, up-to-date and clear evidence-based recommendations and integrated care pathways in ARS and CRS. EPOS2020 provides an update on the literature published and studies undertaken in the eight years since the EPOS2012 position paper was published and addresses areas not extensively covered in EPOS2012 such as paediatric CRS and sinus surgery. EPOS2020 also involves new stakeholders, including pharmacists and patients, and addresses new target users who have become more involved in the management and treatment of rhinosinusitis since the publication of the last EPOS document, including pharmacists, nurses, specialised care givers and indeed patients themselves, who employ increasing self-management of their condition using over the counter treatments. The document provides suggestions for future research in this area and offers updated guidance for definitions and outcome measurements in research in different settings. EPOS2020 contains chapters on definitions and classification where we have defined a large number of terms and indicated preferred terms. A new classification of CRS into primary and secondary CRS and further division into localized and diffuse disease, based on anatomic distribution is proposed. There are extensive chapters on epidemiology and predisposing factors, inflammatory mechanisms, (differential) diagnosis of facial pain, allergic rhinitis, genetics, cystic fibrosis, aspirin exacerbated respiratory disease, immunodeficiencies, allergic fungal rhinosinusitis and the relationship between upper and lower airways. The chapters on paediatric acute and chronic rhinosinusitis are totally rewritten. All available evidence for the management of acute rhinosinusitis and chronic rhinosinusitis with or without nasal polyps in adults and children is systematically reviewed and integrated care pathways based on the evidence are proposed. Despite considerable increases in the amount of quality publications in recent years, a large number of practical clinical questions remain. It was agreed that the best way to address these was to conduct a Delphi exercise . The results have been integrated into the respective sections. Last but not least, advice for patients and pharmacists and a new list of research needs are included. The full document can be downloaded for free on the website of this journal: http://www.rhinologyjournal.com.

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European Position Paper on Rhinosinusitis and Nasal Polyps 2020

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The objective of this paper is to give a comprehensive introduction to applied cryptography with an engineer or computer scientist in mind. The emphasis is on the knowledge needed to create practical systems which supports integrity, confidentiality, or authenticity. Topics covered includes an introduction to the concepts in cryptography, attacks against cryptographic systems, key use and handling, random bit generation, encryption modes, and message authentication codes. Recommendations on algorithms and further reading is given in the end of the paper. This paper should make the reader able to build, understand and evaluate system descriptions and designs based on the cryptographic components described in the paper.

[서평]「Applied Cryptography」

Fingerprint classification algorithms that use both core and delta information are not suitable for the images captured from the general fingerprint input device because the image size is usually so small that the delta points are frequently excluded. The paper describes a fingerprint classification algorithm that uses only the information related to core points. The algorithm detects core point candidates roughly from a directional image and analyzes the near area of each core candidate. In this core analysis, false core points made by noise are eliminated and the type and the orientation of core point are extracted for the classification step. Using this information, classification is performed. The algorithm was tested on 730 images and classification accuracy of 91.6% for the four classes (arch, left-loop, right-loop, whorl) is achieved.

Fingerprint image classification by core analysis

In 2004, Wu-Chieu proposed improvements to their original authentication scheme in order to strengthen it to withstand impersonation attacks In 2005, Lee-Lin-Chang proposed improvements on Wu-Chieu’s original scheme so that not only could it withstand a forgery attack, but it required less computational costs and it was suitable for mobile communication The current paper, however, demonstrates that Wu-Chieu’s improved scheme is vulnerable to an off-line password guessing attack and an impersonation attack by the use of a stolen smart card Also, we demonstrates that Lee-Lin-Chang’s scheme is vulnerable to a forgery attack Furthermore, we present a new authentication scheme based on a one-way hash function and Diffie-Hellman key exchange in order to isolate such problems and to provide mutual authentication between the user and the remote system

New authentication scheme based on a one-way hash function and diffie-hellman key exchange

In 2012, Mun et al.
 proposed an enhanced secure authentication with key-agreement protocol for roaming service in global mobility networks environment based on elliptic curve cryptography. They claimed that their protocol is efficient and resistant to prominent security attacks. The careful analysis of this study proves that Mun et al.
's protocol is susceptible to several attacks such as replay attack, man-in-middle attack, user impersonation attack, privileged insider attack, denial-of-service attack, no login phase and imperfect mutual authentication phase. In addition, this study proposes an enhanced lightweight authentication with key-agreement protocol for mobile networks based on elliptic curve cryptography using smart cards. The proposed protocol is lightweight and perfectly suitable for real-time applications as it accomplishes simple one-way hash function, message authentication code and exclusive-OR operation. Furthermore, it achieves all the eminent security properties and is resistant to various possible attacks. The security analysis and comparison section demonstrates that the proposed protocol is robust compared with Mun et al.
's protocol.

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Lightweight authentication with key-agreement protocol for mobile network environment using smart cards

This paper proposes a new efficient and secure copyright protection scheme for digital watermarking by using visual cryptography technique. The proposed scheme has the following merits compare with previous related schemes: (1) The proposed scheme uses simple codebook to generate a watermarked image. (2) The proposed scheme does not need to expand the watermark image. (3) The proposed scheme eliminates two security problems on the previous Lou et al.psilas scheme which that the problem of stability of relationship between discrete wavelet transform (DWT) coefficients and the problem of ambiguity of watermark verification. As a result, the proposed scheme is more efficient and secure compare with previous related schemes.

A New Copyright Protection Scheme with Visual Cryptography

Recently, Lee et al. proposed an improvement on Peyravian and Zunic scheme to make the protocol withstand the guessing attack. However, their scheme suffers from a denial of service attack. In this paper, we show that an attacker can easily prevent the normal use of communication facilities by performing the attack. We also propose an enhancement of the scheme to isolate such a problem.

Kee-Young Yoo

Papers

Fingerprint image classification by core analysis

New authentication scheme based on a one-way hash function and diffie-hellman key exchange

Lightweight authentication with key-agreement protocol for mobile network environment using smart cards

A New Copyright Protection Scheme with Visual Cryptography

A secure user authentication scheme using hash functions