the person a unique individual” (Guignon, 2004). Guignon’s suggestion bears some resemblance to the definition of personality traits according to the DSM-IV of the APA as “enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself that are exhibited in a wide range of social and personal contexts.” The emphasis of “enduring patters” touches on another important...

Alomair proposed a new authenticated encryption scheme OKH at ACNS 2012, and proved the security, i.e. authenticity and privacy, of OKH. Our research shows that it is not the case. We only need one query to break the authenticity of OKH with success probability of 1, and two queries to break the privacy of OKH with success probability of 1− 1/2, where n is the block-length of underlying blockci...

In addition to printed annual reports, a growing number of corporations use the Internet for corporate reporting. Current practice shows that neither the amount of data supplied nor the presentation modes of digital annual reports are standardized. Authenticity and integrity problems are obvious. In order to close this standardization gap we discuss standards concerning content, presentation, a...

Amateur video shot on mobile devices worldwide is helping to hold authorities to account for war crimes, human rights violations, and other abuses of power. What happens when the authenticity of that video is in doubt? The possibility of justice depends on forensic investigators who sometimes shroud their tools and methods in secrecy, inhibiting reproducibility of their results and disabling sc...

This paper presents BBox, a digital black box to provide for authentic archiving in distributed systems. Based upon public key cryptography and trusted computing platforms, the BBox employs standard primitives to ensure the authenticity of records during the transmission from devices to the collector, as well as during their storage on the collector and retrieval by auditors. Besides presenting...