A novel audio protection and authentication scheme is proposed in this paper. By quantizing a host audio’s FFTcoefficients as masking threshold units (MTUs), two complementary watermarks are designed and embedded using our cocktail watermarking method. For audio protection, high robustness can be achieved; whereas for audio authentication, tampered regions can be detected. Both of the above men...

This paper describes a new design of the multipurpose cryptographic primitive ARMADILLO3 and analyses its security. The ARMADILLO3 family is oriented on small hardware such as smart cards and RFID chips. The original design ARMADILLO and its variants were analyzed by Sepehrdad et al. at CARDIS’11, the recommended variant ARMADILLO2 was analyzed by Plasencia et al. at FSE’12 and by Abdelraheem e...

This is a description of a multipurpose simulation platform that includes numerous simulation engines and is intended for application in a variety of engineering domains. The platform supports modelbased software development and uses structural synthesis of programs for translation of declarative specification of simulation problems into executable code. The platform is being developed as open ...

A backtracking algorithm with element order selection is presented, and its efficiency discussed in relation both to standard examples and to examples concerning relation-preserving maps which the algorithm was derived to solve.