一种云计算中的身份认证协议

针对当前在云计算中身份认证机制个人信息容易泄漏的问题,提出了一种云计算中的身份认证协议。协议的安全性是基于离散对数的难解问题。协议模型由用户、云服务提供者和注册实体等三个实体组成;通过先属性注册协议、后身份认证协议两个步骤完成整个认证过程;从用户伪装身份和云服务提供者盗取身份信息两个角度,对协议的安全性进行了分析;通过与云计算中基于公钥生成器的协议进行对比以及实验仿真,证明了该协议在对承诺的注册和认证时间上的优越性。     

基于非齐次线性方程组的认证协议的研究

认证技术是信息安全理论与技术的一个重要方面.认证技术主要包括用户认证和信息认证2个方面.前者用于鉴别用户身份,后者用于保证信息的真实来源.本文基于线性代数的方程组的解的理论建立了一种身份认证协议和一种消息认证协议.通过安全性分析结果表明这个新的身份认证协议能够保证用户身份的正确认证,新的信息认证协议能够保证数据的机密性、完整性,同时能够防止重传攻击认证信息来源.     

椭圆曲线密码在电子商务现金系统中的应用研究

针对现有电子现金系统的不足,提出了一类基于椭圆曲线密码的离线电子现金方案.方案中自动更新的现金数据库可以删除过期的电子现金,避免了银行现金数据库可能无限增大的问题;在通信会话协议中,同时实现了签名、认证、加密传输和数据恢复,签名与认证的协议过程同时也是加密通信的过程,减化了常规的密码协议过程.与已有的方案相比,方案中协议与算法简洁、高效,在安全强度不变的条件下,降低了软硬件实现的系统开销,可广泛应用于电子商务等网络业务环境.     

双重系统加密研究: 获得完全安全的IBE及其扩展

双重系统加密技术首先由Waters提出,是用于构造完仝安全的基于身份的加密(IBE)及其扩展方案的有力方法.针对完全安全方案的构造,研究了双重系统加密技术并提出了一个完全安仝方案的通用构造方法,即将一个利用双重系统加密的IBE方案与一个普通的方案相结合,得到一个新的可以利用双重系统加密证明安全的方案.在通用构造的基础上提出了一个实例,该实例是一个基于层级身份的加密( HIBE)方案,具有常密文长度.该方案比Waters提出的双重系统加密HIBE方案更高效,并且在判定BDH假设和判定线性假设下证明是完全安全的.     

云存储环境下的密文检索研究

随着用户数据量的不断增长,数据的存储模式逐渐由本地存储向云端存储转变。然而云存储面临的安全威胁也日益突出,给用户数据的隐私保护带来了极大的隐患。密文检索技术的发展有效地解决了这个问题。介绍了云存储环境下密文检索的应用场景,分析密文检索中数据的特点和安全需求,并提出其中的挑战性问题。通过研究现有的密文检索方案,提出了云存储环境下密文检索的通用模型与基本框架,并构建方案的评价体系。根据检索方法的不同,将密文检索分为基于密文全文的检索方法和基于密文索引的检索方法,并对其中的一些经典方案进行详细分析。最后,指出当前密文检索方案中主要存在的问题,并分析密文检索的发展趋势。     

基于ARM的嵌入式指纹图像处理技术研究

研究了特征提取方法和匹配算法;设计了基于ARM的嵌入式指纹处理核心模块,并将其应用于综合业务平台的用户身份认证系统中;具有自主版权的认证加载模式实现了对登录平台的用户身份验证,识别率达到了99.3%.结果表明,该方法能确保平台系统的安全.     

适用于云计算的多接收方代理重加密方案

在云计算环境下,绝大多数信息处理和存储都被转移到云中心,用户终端的计算和存储能力将逐渐弱化。本文针对这一趋势,提出一种适用于云计算的多接收方代理重加密方案,充分利用云中心的分布式计算能力,使用随机数重用和密文聚合技术,大大降低了计算和传输负担,实验表明本方案具有较高的效率。     

移动通信网中的安全密钥分配协议

本文将Ｒａｂｉｎ的公钥加密方案和Ｄｉｆｆｉｅ－Ｈｅｌｌｍａｎ的密钥交换方案相结合,提出了适用于数字移动通信网的一种安全密钥分配协议。该协议有以下特点：（１）在进行密钥交换时,增加了网络对通信双方的认证;（２）用户没有向网络中心泄漏任何秘密信息;（３）由于在协议中采用了Ｄｉｆｆｉｅ－Ｈｅｌｌｍａｎ密钥交换系统,使得用户在安全性方面和计算复杂性方面取得了折中。最后,本文对该协议的安全性进行了分析。     

一种基于RSA的军用智能卡双向身份认证方案设计与分析

基于智能卡的身份认证在军事领域中具有广泛的应用前景,由于军事信息具有高度的敏感性与机密性,传统的、静态的、单向的身份认证方案不能满足军事应用的需求,通过对几种认证方案的研究,提出了一种基于RSA密码体制的实时的、动态的、极小泄漏的双向身份认证方案,不仅证明了它的完备性,并对其安全性进行了分析,结果表明它具有比以上几种认证方案更高的安全性.     

基于混沌蚁群算法的云计算应用优化研究

以改进蚁群算法应用在云计算中的不足为目的,讨论了蚁群算法基本原理和云计算下应用的缺陷.提出一种适合云计算的混沌蚁群改进算法,该算法通过Logistic映射产生混沌量,根据混沌遍历性和有界性对蚁群算法初始路径进行混沌初始化,同时加入混沌扰动调整算法信息素更新策略,改进了蚁群算法收敛速度慢和易陷入局部最优的缺点.最后通过CloudSim搭建仿真云环境并进行算法调度实验,通过横向对比标准蚁群算法和Dijkstra算法,证明混沌蚁群算法在执行效率和相对标准差等方面优于其他算法,更加适合于云计算环境.     

Putin – the masked nemesis of the strategy of ambiguity

Recent events demonstrate the complex and adaptive approach employed by Russia to reassert influence in Europe. The changing face of Russia’s strategy commenced in 2007 when it launched a crippling cyber-attack against Estonia. This was followed by a large Russian conventional attack against Georgia in 2008, occupying two large areas of the nation. 2014 witnessed the Russian annexation of Crimea where in just a week, Russia seized control of Crimea “without firing a shot.” The annexation of Crimea was rapidly followed by a Russian inspired and led subversive war in eastern Ukraine. The common thread among these diverse Russian operations is its use of ambiguity to confound and confuse decision makers in the West.     

India's counter-insurgency experience: the ‘trust and nurture’ strategy

The Indian Army, a force trained primarily for conventional warfare, has been engaged in internal counter-insurgency operations since the 1950s. Despite such a long innings on a counter-insurgency mode, little attention has been accorded within military circles to doctrinal innovation for waging sub-conventional warfare in India's democratic political context. At best, the Army continues to view counter-insurgency duty as secondary to its primary duty of defending India from external conventional threats. By conceptualizing a counter-insurgency strategy of ‘trust and nurture’, this article aims to fill this critical doctrinal gap in India's military policy. The author argues that a counter-insurgency strategy of ‘trust and nurture’ based on democratic political culture, measured military methods, special counter-insurgency forces, local social and cultural awareness and an integrative nation-building approach will result in positive handling of India's internal security problems. The author utilizes India's counter-insurgency experiences in Assam, Mizoram, Nagaland, Punjab, and Operation ‘Sadhbhavana’ in Jammu and Kashmir as illustrative empirical indicants in order to validate the ‘trust and nurture’ strategy.     

The UK,interrogation and Iraq, 2003–2008

The UK’s interrogation operations during the conflict in Iraq (2003–2008) are often portrayed by the media as involving significant amounts of mistreatment. This article demonstrates that these practices are not necessarily representative of the UK’s interrogation operations across this conflict. In doing so it contributes to the limited literature on the practice of interrogation and on the UK’s combat operations in Iraq. The UK’s interrogation capability, and therefore its intelligence-gathering capability, is shown to have rested primarily with the military’s Joint Forward Interrogation Team (JFIT). The JFIT suffered from limitations to the number, training and experience of its interrogators and interpreters. It is argued that maintaining a permanent, higher level of preparedness for interrogation by the British armed forces is desirable.     

Remembering and forgetting Mirambo: Histories of war in modern Africa

ABSTRACT

While the study of organised violence is considered essential to understanding the history of the West, and accordingly imbued with various layers of meaning and remembrance, war is widely regarded as inimical to the modern nation in Africa and stable development more broadly. Using examples drawn from primarily from East Africa, this paper considers the ways in which warfare in the deeper (‘precolonial’) past has been framed and envisioned in recent decades, in particular by governments whose own roots lie in revolutionary armed struggle and who began life as guerrilla movements. While in some cases particular elements of the deeper past were indeed mobilised in pursuit of contemporary political goals, in many other scenarios histories of precolonial violence were beheld as problematic and unworthy of remembrance. This paper highlights the paradox and ambiguity which has attended the memory of key aspects of Africa’s deeper past.     

SIM—LISP:一个通信网络管理专家系统外壳的设计与实现

本文介绍了笔者为开发名为OONMES的网络管理专家系统所实现的一个简单专家系统工具SIM-LISP。SIM-LISP是一个用C/C++语言来实现的模拟LISP语言的可调用函数集,它短小精巧,速度快,可以完成针对网管专家系统的事实或规则知识的表示、匹配、合一和推理等基本操作,并有与知识对象的连接功能,是网管专家系统内核实现的支撑环境。     

Al Qaida on the US invasion of Afghanistan in their own words

This article consists of selected translations from captured interviews and dairies of Al Qaida members. The time period covered is from mid-2001 to early 2002 and concerns their operations in Afghanistan. The material clearly conveys a range of emotion, from confident to despondent, as well as efforts to contest the US actions. The first several pages give the reader context and some possible “lessons learned,” but the story(ies) are best told by the Al Qaida members themselves. All names are pseudonyms.     

Does Intent equal Capability? Al-Qaeda and Weapons of Mass Destruction

The prospect of terrorists deploying weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is often referred to as the foremost danger to American national security. This danger has become more realistic because of al-Qaeda's expanding global network and the expressed willingness to kill thousands of civilians. In the past four years, numerous media reports have documented the group's ongoing quest for WMD capabilities; many reports have detailed al-Qaeda members’ attempts to manufacture or obtain certain chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) agents to use in WMD against targets in the West and the Middle East. Yet the question remains: Does al-Qaeda's current WMD capability match its actual intent? While most studies of the group have focused on its explicit desire for WMD, allegations of CBRN acquisition, and the killing potential of specific CBRN agents, few open-source studies have closely examined the evolution of al-Qaeda's consideration of WMD and, most notably, the merit of actual CBRN production instructions as depicted and disseminated in the group's own literature and manuals. The following report will examine the history of al-Qaeda's interest in CBRN agents, the evolution of the network's attitude toward these weapons, and the internal debate within the organization concerning acquisition and use of WMD. More so, the following research will assess the validity of actual CBRN production instructions and capabilities as displayed and disseminated in al-Qaeda's own literature and websites.     

Late Medieval Lance Use: Mounted Combat and Martial Arts in Western Europe from the 14th to the 16th Century

Despite the lance’s status and the amount of attention the couched lance has received in historiography, study of its martial art has been neglected. The various lance types and techniques used by western European cavalry have only recently begun to receive scholarly attention. Additionally, Medieval European lance use has too often been studied in isolation, without an adequate understanding of the idiosyncratic and asymmetrical dynamics of mounted combat. Although the charge with the couched lance was a valid tactic, it was only one of many. Light and heavy lances were used in one hand or two to trip, block, unhorse, and wrestle. These techniques were governed by the harsh laws of distance, speed, impact, iron, and asymmetry. By utilizing the surviving Fechtbücher and several Peninsular and Near Eastern sources, a brief foray into the diverse techniques of lance use and their purposes has been attempted here.     

A model for geographically distributed combat interactions of swarming naval and air forces

This article describes the Distributed Interaction Campaign Model (DICM), an exploratory campaign analysis tool and asset allocation decision‐aid for managing geographically distributed and swarming naval and air forces. The model is capable of fast operation, while accounting for uncertainty in an opponent's plan. It is intended for use by commanders and analysts who have limited time for model runs, or a finite budget. The model is purpose‐built for the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment, and supports analysis of the following questions: What happens when swarms of geographically distributed naval and air forces engage each other and what are the key elements of the opponents’ force to attack? Are there changes to force structure that make a force more effective, and what impacts will disruptions in enemy command and control and wide‐area surveillance have? Which insights are to be gained by fast exploratory mathematical/computational campaign analysis to augment and replace expensive and time‐consuming simulations? An illustrative example of model use is described in a simple test scenario. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 63: 562–576, 2016     

Thomas Firth and Sons – Steelmakers to the Arms Industries. Part 2: Heavy Armaments

Firth’s were the first of the Sheffield steel makers to enter the field armaments. Their involvement with Colt has been outlined in an article in the journal of the Colt Collectors Association in America and their activities as steelmakers to the small-arms industries has been covered in a previous issue of this Journal. This article gives a brief overview of their involvement as manufacturers in the field of heavy armaments, being the first to make all-steel guns and their evolving role in the use of steel for ordnance, culminating in the displacement of wrought iron by the adoption of steel for ordnance manufacture by the Royal Gun Factory in the 1880s. It also highlights their development of stainless steel in this context.