Mar 1, 2012
Computing with signals that are encrypted or otherwise hidden (often referred to as S.P.E.D. for signal processing in the encrypted domain) is a fascinating challenge that has caught the attention of a large number of researchers. In the last 5 years theoretical and practical advances in this field have been impressive, thus contributing to bring S.P.E.D. technology closer to real life requirements. As a matter of fact, the usage of S.P.E.D. techniques in real-world applications starts being viable, at least in cases where a suitable trade-off between efficiency and security is possible. The goal of this special issue is to introduce the readers of the Signal Processing Magazine to this new exciting and challenging discipline, providing them with the basic primitives S.P.E.D. relies on, and presenting the latest developments in the field, with particular attention to the role that the signal processing community may play in this field.
Tutorial and survey papers, as well as papers illustrating the applications of S.P.E.D. techniques in in selected scenarios are solicited. The topics covered by the special issue include (but are not limited to):
Cryptographic foundations
Homomorphic encryption
Garbled circuits
Security against active adversaries
Multi-party computation for fuzzy signals
Novel primitives for S.P.E.D.
S.P.E.D. models
Security models
Signal representation in finite rings
Complexity models
Automatic construction of S.P.E.D.protocols
S.P.E.D. implementation of signal processing primitives
Applications
e-health
Biometric template protection
Digital rights management
Privacy protection
Anonymous search
Data mining
Cloud computing
Network security
Other approaches to private signal processing
Anonymization
Differential privacy
Selective encryption
Compression of encrypted signals
Submission procedure
Prospective authors should submit a 4 page white paper to the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine online manuscript submission website at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/spmag-ieee. Please consult http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/publications/periodicals/spm/ for instructions on how preparing the white paper. Relevance to signal processing and the tutorial value of the paper are key selection criteria.
Important Dates
White paper due: April 15, 2012
Invitation notification: May 7, 2012
Manuscript due: July 15, 2012
Acceptance Notification: August 31, 2012
Revised Manuscript due: September 30, 2012
Final Acceptance Notification: October 31, 2012
Final Manuscript due: November 20, 2012
Publication date: March 2013
Guest editors
M. Barni, University of Siena - ITALY, barni@dii.unisi.it
T. Kalker, Huawei - USA, ton.kalker@ieee.org
S. Katzenbeisser, Techn. Universität Darmstadt, katzenbeisser@seceng.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de