The two important qualities of a cipher is security and speed. Frequently, to satisfy the security of a Boolean function primitive, speed may be traded-off. In this paper we present a general construction that addresses both qualities. The idea of our construction is to manipulate a cryptographically strong base function and one of its affine equivalent functions, using concatenation and negati...

Thermodynamic effects play an important role in the cavitation dynamics of cryogenics fluids. Such flows are characterized by strong variations in fluid properties with the temperature. A compressible, multiphase, one-fluid solver was developed to study and to predict thermodynamic effects in cavitating flows. To close the system, a cavitation model is proposed to capture metastable behaviours ...

For a connected graph G containing no bridges, let D(G) be the family of strong orientations of G; and for any D ∈ D(G), we denote by d(D) the diameter of D. The orientation number −→ d (G) of G is defined by −→ d (G) = min{d(D)|D ∈ D(G)}. Let G(p, q;m) denote the family of simple graphs obtained from the disjoint union of two complete graphs K p and Kq by adding m edges linking them in an arbi...

Let p1 ≤ p2 and consider estimating a fixed set {x : p1 ≤ f(x) ≤ p2} by the random set {x : p1 ≤ f̂n(x) ≤ p2}, where f̂n is a consistent estimator of the continuous function f . This paper gives consistency conditions for these sets, and provides a new method to construct confidence regions from empirical averages of sets. The method can also be used to construct confidence regions for sets of th...

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Consuming services online is an exponentially growing trend within different industries. A robust online authentication solution to these services is a critical requirement for establishing trust between end users and service providers. Currently, the shortcomings of password based authentication solutions are well recognized.Hence, many alternative strong authentication solutions are being ado...

Let X be a reflexive Banach space which has a weakly sequentially continuous duality mapping. In this paper, we consider the following viscosity approximation sequence x n λ n fx n 1−λ n T n x n , where λ n ∈ 0, 1, {T n } is a uniformly asymptotically regular sequence, and f is a weakly contractive mapping. Strong convergence of the sequence {x n } is proved.

A pair of Wolfe type non-differentiable second order symmetric primal and dual problems in mathematical programming is formulated. The weak and strong duality theorems are then established under second order F-convexity assumptions. Symmetric minimax mixed integer primal and dual problems are also investigated. 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

In this work the arbitrarily varying wiretap channel AVWC is studied. We derive a lower bound on the random code secrecy capacity for the average error criterion and the strong secrecy criterion in the case of a best channel to the eavesdropper by using Ahlswede’s robustification technique for ordinary AVCs. We show that in the case of a non-symmetrisable channel to the legitimate receiver the ...

If D = (V,A) is a digraph, its competition hypergraph CH(D) has the vertex set V and e ⊆ V is an edge of CH(D) iff |e| ≥ 2 and there is a vertex v ∈ V , such that e = {w ∈ V |(w, v) ∈ A}. We tackle the problem to minimize the number of strong components in D without changing the competition hypergraph CH(D). The results are closely related to the corresponding investigations for competition gra...