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 2005, Lee and Chen proposed an improved one-time password authentication scheme that can prevent a stolen verifier attack and that is as efficient as the scheme of Yeh-Shen-Hwang. The current paper, however, demonstrates that Lee-Chen's scheme is still vulnerable to Denial-of-Service attacks and a simple solution is presented in order to isolate such a problem. Furthermore, we propose an efficiently optimized one-time password authentication scheme that can provide user anonymity. In addition the computational costs are lower than those of Lee-Chen's scheme.

One-time password authentication scheme using smart cards providing user anonymity

Java is an architecture-independent, object-oriented language designed to facilitate code-sharing across the Internet in general, via the Web in particular. Also Java has much possibility as a multi-featured distributed computing language, and a powerful portability with architecture-independent execution. We examine the viability of Java as a high performance distributed computing language with three computation intensive problems with many usages. Each problem is tested in client-server model, and the performance comparisons in data size and number of clients are presented.

Experiments with Java for computing intensive problems

In 2005, Sun-Cao pointed out that Peinado’s key authentication scheme does not achieve non-repudiation of the user’s public key, like its previous versions. Then, they proposed an improved public key authentication scheme, which is proved to realize the non-repudiation service. However, in this paper, we will show that Sun-Cao’s improved public key authentication scheme for non-repudiation is still vulnerable to public key substitution attack, i.e., an intruder can substitute a fake public key for the genuine one. Furthermore, we propose an improved public key authentication scheme for non-repudiation. In our scheme, we resolve the problems appeared in Sun-Cao’s scheme as the public key substitution attack. As a result, our scheme is highly secure than Sun-Cao’s scheme.

Improving the Sun-Cao’s Public Key Authentication Scheme for Non-repudiation

Lin and Chan proposed a reversible secret image sharing scheme in 2010. The advantages of their scheme are as follows: the low distortion ratio, high embedding capacity of shadow ima ges and usage of the reversible. However, their scheme has some problems. First, the number of participants is limited bec ause of modulus prime number . Second, the overflow can be occurred by additional operations (quantized value and the r esult value of polynomial) in the secret sharing procedure. Finally, if the coefficient of (−1)th degree polynomial become zero, (−1) participants can access secret data. In this paper, an improved reversible secret image sharing sche me which solves the problems of Lin and Chan's scheme while provides the low distortion ratio and high embedding capa city is proposed. The proposed scheme solves the problems that are a limit of a total number of participants, and occurrence of overflow by new polynomial operation over GF(  ). Also, it solve problem that the coefficient of (t−1)th degree polynomial become zero by fixed MSB 4-bit constant. In the experimental results, PSNR of their scheme is decreased with th e increase of embedding capacity. However, even if the embedding capacity increase, PSNR value of about 45dB or more i s maintained uniformly in the proposed scheme.Keywords: Reversible Secret Image Sharing, Galois Field, Steganography, PSNR, Embedding Capacity접수일(2013년 2월 26일), 수정일(2013년 5월 16일), 게재확정일(2013년 5월 21일)* 이 논문은 2012년도 정부(교육과학기술부)의 재원으로 한국연구재단의 지원을 받아 수행된 기초연구사업입니다. (No. 2012-008348), 이 논문은 2012학년도 경북대학교 학술연구비에 의하여 연구되었음†주저자, pari001@infosec.knu.ac.kr‡교신저자, yook@knu.ac.kr(Corresponding author)

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An Improved Reversible Secret Image Sharing Scheme based on GF(2 8 )

Recently, many different protocols have been proposed for software Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) that can provide a shared-memory programming model for distributed memory hardware The adaptive protocols of these protocols attempt to allow the system to choose between different protocols based on the access patterns it observes in an application This paper describes several problems that deteriorate the performance of a hybrid protocol[6], an adaptive invalidate/update protocol To address these problems, this paper then presents a working-set based adaptive invalidate/update protocol that uses a working-set model as the criteria for determining whether to update or invalidate The proposed protocol was implemented in CVM [7], a software DSM system, and evaluated using eight nodes of an IBM SP2 After experimenting with various working-set window sizes, it was confirmed that the proposed protocol could track an access pattern better than the hybrid protocol, plus with a very small window size the protocol was able to optimize the over-all performance

Kee-Young Yoo

Papers

One-time password authentication scheme using smart cards providing user anonymity

Experiments with Java for computing intensive problems

Improving the Sun-Cao’s Public Key Authentication Scheme for Non-repudiation

An Improved Reversible Secret Image Sharing Scheme based on GF(2 8 )

The Working-Set Based Adaptive Protocol for Software Distributed Shared Memory