Study of all reported instances of motion of Martian yellow clouds yields a n analysis of thcir probable nature and properties. The yellow clouds seem to be initiated by wind-driven sand and teiid to form in low latitudes. The limb and terminator projections seem to be quite diffcreiit in nature, probably in par t aqucous condensations. Thcse occur primarily in middle latitudes.

In the present paper, we answer a question raised in the paper Constructions and Bounds for Unconditionally Secure Non-Interactive Commitment Schemes, by Blundo et al, 2002, showing that there is a close relation between unconditionally secure commitment schemes and unconditionally secure authentication schemes, and that an unconditionally secure commitment scheme can be built from such an auth...

Unconditionally secure authentication codes with arbitration (A 2 -codes) protect against deceptions from the transmitter and the receiver as well as that from the opponent. In this paper, we present combinatorial lower bounds on the cheating probabilities for A 2 -codes in terms of the number of source states, that of the whole messages and that of messages which the receiver accepts as authen...

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Novikov and Kiselev [7] proposed an authentication method of a user from a remote autonomous object. Recently, Yang et al. [12] and Awasthi [1] have pointed out that the Novikov-Kiselev scheme is insecure against the man-in-the-middle attack. In this article, we propose an improved version of the Novikov-Kiselev scheme to overcome such vulnerability.

With the advent of powerful and efficient wireless sensor nodes, the usage of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has been greatly increased. However, various kinds of security breaches have also been introduced, which exposes the vulnerability of these nodes to defend the valuable data from some specific types of attacks. In this paper, we address node replication, replacement, and man-in-the-midd...

In the article we show an attack on the cryptographic protocol of electronic auction with extended requirements [1]. The found attack consists of authentication breach and secret retrieval. It is a kind of “man in the middle attack”. The intruder impersonates an agent and learns some secret information. We have discovered this flaw using OFMC an automatic tool of cryptographic protocol verifica...

As an interconnection technology, Bluetooth has to address all traditional security problems, well known from the distributed networks. Moreover, as Bluetooth networks are formed by the radio links, there are also additional security aspects whose impact is yet not well understood. In this paper, we propose a novel Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) attack against Bluetooth enabled mobile phone that supp...

Secure initial pairing of electronic gadgets is a challenging problem because of the usual lack of a common security infrastructure and the threat of so-called Man-in-the-Middle (MiTM) attacks. A number of techniques have been proposed to address the problem, butmany are not applicable to devices lacking required interfaces, such as displays or speakers. In this paper, we introduce a new secure...

Transport Layer Security (TLS, RFC 5246 and previous, including SSL v3 and previous) is subject to a number of serious man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks related to renegotiation. In general, these problems allow an MITM to inject an arbitrary amount of chosen plaintext into the beginning of the application protocol stream, leading to a variety of abuse possibilities. In particular, practical att...