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

National Institute of Standards and Technology における超伝導研究及び生活

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」

As there is growth in the need of applications such as video conferencing and interactive chatting, secure group communication is an important research area. Security in these applications is necessary to provide services like privacy, data-integrity, and non-repudiation to group members. A naive way to achieve security in such groups is to have a secret key among every node. This task is achieved by means of a contributory group key agreement protocol that each member directly contributes to key management and generation. In 2007, Heo et al. [4] proposed certificateless authenticated group key agreement (CAGKA) protocol. While their protocol provides efficient communication and computation complexity, it does not provide (perfect) forward secrecy desired for a secure group key agreement protocol. In this paper, a certificateless authenticated group key agreement protocol is proposed based on CCEGK and EAGKA. The proposed protocol also satisfies security requirements and is suitable for dynamic membership events.

A Certificateless Authenticated Group Key Agreement Protocol Providing Forward Secrecy

This paper proposes a new efficient and secure anonymous authentication scheme for mobile satellite communication systems. Compared with the related schemes, the proposed scheme achieves the following three main advantages: (1) It is just based on a secure one-way hash function for avoiding complex computations for both mobile users and network control center (NCC), (2) it does not require sensitive verification table which may cause NCC to become an attractive target for numerous attacks (e.g., insertion attacks and stolen-verifier attacks), and (3) it provides higher security level (e.g., secure mutual authentication and key establishment, confidential communication, user's privacy, simple key management, and session key independence). As a result, the proposed scheme is very suitable for lightweight-device environments because of very low computation overload on the part of both mobile user and NCC.

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An efficient and secure anonymous authentication scheme for mobile satellite communication systems

Linear systolic multiplier/squarer for fast exponentiation

The security of most cryptography systems is dependenton the secret key generators or pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs). PRNGs based on cellular automata (CA)have been studied and recommended by many researchersover the last decade. In this paper, we perform on analysisof 2-state, 3-neighborhood CA rules. In order to calculatethe probability of the CA rules, they were classified into different sets using logic combinations and various definitions of CA. The binomial probability of these sets are calculated using the properties of logic combination. As a result, we found three sets that have a high quality of randomness. In order to prove the high quality of randomness of these sets, the following experimental results on quality of randomness using the DIEHARD test suite are presented.

Analysis of 2-State, 3-Neighborhood Cellular Automata Rules for Cryptographic Pseudorandom Number Generation

In applications of multimedia communication, the remote user authentication is an important issue to protect the multimedia resources. Recently, Lin-Lai proposed an improvement on the Lee-Ryu-Yoo fingerprint-based remote user authentication scheme using smart cards to not only keep the original advantages but also enhance their security. Lin-Lai claimed that their scheme can withstand masquerade attacks and secure access control in multimedia communication. However, we have found that the scheme is still susceptible to impersonation attacks. Accordingly, the current paper demonstrates the vulnerability of the Lin-Lai scheme to impersonation attacks and presents an improved scheme with better security strength and efficiency. The computational costs of the proposed scheme are less than those of the Lin-Lai scheme.

Kee-Young Yoo

Papers

A Certificateless Authenticated Group Key Agreement Protocol Providing Forward Secrecy

An efficient and secure anonymous authentication scheme for mobile satellite communication systems

Linear systolic multiplier/squarer for fast exponentiation

Analysis of 2-State, 3-Neighborhood Cellular Automata Rules for Cryptographic Pseudorandom Number Generation

A new efficient fingerprint-based remote user authentication scheme for multimedia systems