[WM]: Call for Papers - Signal Processing in the Encrypted Domain

[Alessandro Piva <piva@lci.det.unifi.it>]

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EURASIP Journal on Information Security - An Open Access Journal

Special Issue on

Signal Processing in the Encrypted Domain

Call for Papers
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Recent advances in digital signal processing enabled a number of new services in various application domains, ranging from enhanced
multimedia content

production and distribution to advanced healthcare systems for continuous health monitoring. At the heart of these services lies the
ability to securely manipulate “valuable” digital signals in order to satisfy security requirements such as intellectual
property management,authenticity, privacy,and access control.

Currently available technological solutions for “secure manipulation of
signals”
apply cryptographic primitives by building a secure layer on top of existing signal processing modules, able to protect them from
leakage of critical information, assuming that the involved parties or devices trust each other. This implies that the cryptographic
layer is used only to protect the data against access through unauthorized third parties or to provide authenticity. However, this
is often not enough to ensure the security of the application, since the owner of the data may not trust the processing devices, or
those actors that are required to manipulate them.

It is clear that the availability of signal processing algorithms that work directly on encrypted signals would be of great help for
application scenarios where signals must be produced, processed, or exchanged securely. Whereas the development of tools capable of
processing encrypted signals may seem a formidable task, some recent, still scattered, studies, spanning from secure embedding and
detection of digital watermarks and secure content distribution to compression of encrypted data and access to encrypted databases,
have shown that performing signal processing operations in encrypted content is indeed possible.

This special issue solicits papers exploring the application of signal processing to encrypted content, both from a theoretical and
practical point of view.Topics of interest include, among others:

o Cryptographic primitives and protocols for signal processing operations o Secure matching and analysis of signals o Searching on
encrypted signals o Cryptographic techniques for real-valued or fuzzy data o Secure watermark embedding and detection o
Next-generation secure content management o Privacy through secure signal processing o Transcoding of encrypted content o Design and
evaluation of encryption schemes specifically tailored towards signals

Authors should follow the EURASIP JIS manuscript format described at the journal
site: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/is/.
Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the EURASIP JIS's Manuscript Tracking
System at http://www.hindawi.com/mts/, according to the following timetable:

Manuscript Due          March 1, 2007
Acceptance Notification June 1, 2007
Final Manuscript Due    September 1, 2007
Publication Date        4th Quarter, 2007

Guest Editors:

Alessandro Piva, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Florence, Via S Marta 3, 50139 Firenze, Italy;
piva@lci.det.unifi.it

Stefan Katzenbeisser, Information & System Security Group, Philips Research Europe, High Tech Campus 34 MS 61, 5656 AE Eindhoven,
The Netherlands; stefan.katzenbeisser@philips.com

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Alessandro Piva
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Department of Electronics and Telecommunications University of Florence Via S. Marta 3, 50139 Firenze, Italy
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E-mail: piva@lci.det.unifi.it
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