Cryptanalysis and improvement of an elliptic curve based signcryption scheme for firewalls.

In network security, firewall is a security system that observes and controls the network traffic based on some predefined rules. A firewall sets up a barrier between internal network and another outside unsecured network, such as the Internet. A number of signcryption schemes for firewall are propo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Malik Zia, Rashid Ali
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208857