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」

In cloud computing, the lightweight, efficient and secure authentication scheme is needed because it is to handle large amounts of data in real-time. Hence, this paper proposes an efficient and lightweight multi-user authentication scheme based on cellular automata (CA) in cloud computing environments. In the proposed scheme, an authentication process is securely performed by a CA-based One-time Password (OTP) authentication which is a randomized evolution. The experiments prove the security of the proposed scheme.

A lightweight multi-user authentication scheme based on cellular automata in cloud environment

Recently, Jeong et al. proposed a strong Diffie-HellmanDSA key exchange scheme providing security against session state reveal attacks as well as forward secrecy and key independence. The current paper proposes an efficient Diffie-Hellman-MAC key exchange scheme providing same securities. The proposed scheme is based on the keyed MAC hash function to provide efficiency. Keyword: Cryptography, Diffie-Hellman key exchange, MAC, Digital signature algorithm, Session state reveal attacks.

An Efficient Diffie-Hellman-MAC Key Exchange Scheme

Wireless sensor network (WSN) have been applied in many different areas. Mutual authentication is an important service in WSN. In 2010, Chen and Shih proposed a robust mutual authentication (RMA) protocol for WSN. However, this paper points out that Chen-Shih's RMA protocol has some drawbacks: (1) user impersonation attacks by a malicious registered user, (2) GW-node impersonation attacks by a malicious registered user, (3) sensor node impersonation attacks by a malicious registered user, (4) privileged insider attacks, and (5) time synchronization problem.

Cryptanalysis of robust mutual authentication protocol for wireless sensor networks

A remote user authentication system has become an important part of security, along with confidentiality and integrity, for systems such as the Internet that offer remote access over untrustworthy networks. In 2006, Liaw et al. proposed an efficient and complete remote user authentication scheme using smart cards that includes a session key being agreed and an updated password phase. However, the current paper demonstrates that Liaw et al.’s scheme is vulnerable to some attacks and then presents an improved scheme in order to isolate such security problems.

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A security enhanced remote user authentication scheme using smart cards

In this paper, we propose a new more efficient steganography technique that can be applied in Internet environment. The new efficient technique can hide from 1 to 8 bits secret data per pixel, and has no distortion if the number of colors does not exceed 128. The proposed scheme first divides the secret data into several parts based on the number of colors in the cover image, and then embed secret data into the cover image, part by part by expanding palettes and modifying indices. Finally, the cover image can be recovered easily without loss. Indeed, numerical experiments indicate that the new technique introduces no distortion to the cover image, in contrast with other schemes that based on index-color, such as EZ Stego. Furthermore, the proposed scheme can be applied to BMP, GIF and PNG image formats which use the index-color technique. Thus, the proposed scheme suits the current Internet environment very well.

Kee-Young Yoo

Papers

A lightweight multi-user authentication scheme based on cellular automata in cloud environment

An Efficient Diffie-Hellman-MAC Key Exchange Scheme

Cryptanalysis of robust mutual authentication protocol for wireless sensor networks

A security enhanced remote user authentication scheme using smart cards

A New Steganography Scheme Based on an Index-Color Image