Download or read book Bounded Rationality the Encryption written by Kenneth Moore and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 2025, a gathering of distinguished scientists convene to celebrate the last-gasp signals of our old, but fabled space probe Voyager 1. On its last legs, all remaining energy is doomed to run out, with the party on earth about to shut down communication, for good. Suddenly, in a very last-minute radio transmission, Voyager 1 signals mysterious activity interrupting its supposedly uneventful flightpath... External interference? A malfunction? Or was it something more? A struggle to find a plausible explanation ensues, with suppressed information slowly slipping through the cracks... whilst unbeknownst to mankind, whatever it was, had already set a course for Earth. As a chain of events unfolds, mankind's ability to produce a cohesive response is unwittingly corrupted, with only then, the true challenge beginning to emerge- is mankind, in fact, its own worst enemy? Learning that sometimes, only through silence can we begin to listen. The author of this book aspired to stay truthful to the bounds of scientific knowledge – weaving various technical aspects and dynamics into the fabric of both books – creating a realistic and compelling sci-fi story, within the authentic laws of the universe as we know it today. ...Unravelling the mystery, with the world descending into certain madness, the saga continues in the next book, The Encounter.
Download or read book Bounded Rationality the Encounter written by Kenneth Moore and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The saga continues, as human irrationality unfolds after discovering the presence of an unidentified starship orbiting Earth, with man's fate descending into uncharted and dangerous territory. The alien Gorgass civilization monitors mankind closely, providing demands submitted to Earth via the return of select human hostages, but struggles to communicate efficiently –with Earth's response to any overtures, being aggressively negative. The remaining hostages, trapped within their extraneous cells, are at their wits' end. An attempt to reason with the indifferent extraterrestrials is made – not only on sparing their own lives– but in sparing mankind altogether. As the prisoners attempt to devise a way of relaying their requests, does the incompatibility of mindsets between life forms become clear? Hence the battle between the Rational v Irrational, Methodical v Spontaneous, and Emotionless v Expressiveness begin, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. Does the threat truly come from extraterrestrial activity, or instead inadvertently from within humans' own inability to listen rationally? The author maintains the realistic technical aspects and dynamics woven throughout the fabric of this book, superbly constructing a plausible yet compelling science fiction story.
Download or read book Financial Cryptography written by Matt Blaze and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-21 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sixth International Financial Cryptography Conference was held during March 11-14, 2002, in Southampton, Bermuda. As is customary at FC, these proceedings represent "final" versions of the papers presented, revised to take into account comments and discussions from the conference. Submissions to the conference were strong, with 74 papers submitted and 19 accepted for presentation and publication. (Regrettably, three of the submit ted papers had to be summarily rejected after it was discovered that they had been improperly submitted in parallel to other conferences.) The small program committee worked very hard under a tight schedule (working through Christmas day) to select the program. No program chair could ask for a better committee; my thanks to everyone for their hard work and dedication. In addition to the refereed papers, the program included a welcome from the Minister of Telecommunications and e-Commerce, Renee Webb, a keynote address by Nigel Hickson, and a panel on privacy tradeoffs cheiired by Rebecca Wright (with panelists Ian Goldberg, Ron Rivest, and Graham Wood). The traditional Tuesday evening "rump session" was skillfully officiated by Markus Jakobsson. My job as program chair was made much, much easier by the excellent work of our general chair, Nicko van Someren, who performed the miracle of hiding from me any evidence of the innumerable logistical nightmares associated with conducting this conference. I have no idea how he did it, but it must have involved many sleepless nights.
Download or read book Applied Cryptography and Network Security written by Bart Preneel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2018, held in Leuven, Belgium, in July 2018. The 36 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 173 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: Cryptographic Protocols; Side Channel Attacks and Tamper Resistance; Digital Signatures; Privacy Preserving Computation; Multi-party Computation; Symmetric Key Primitives; Symmetric Key Primitives; Symmetric Key Cryptanalysis; Public Key Encryption; Authentication and Biometrics; Cloud and Peer-to-peer Security.
Download or read book Financial Cryptography and Data Security written by Radu Sion and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2010, held in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain in January 2010. The 19 revised full papers and 15 revised short papers presented together with 1 panel report and 7 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 130 submissions. The papers cover all aspects of securing transactions and systems and feature current research focusing on both fundamental and applied real-world deployments on all aspects surrounding commerce security.
Download or read book Bounded Rationality and Industrial Organization written by Ran Spiegler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional economic theory assumes that consumers are fully rational, that they have well-defined preferences and easily understand the market environment. Yet, in fact, consumers may have inconsistent, context-dependent preferences or simply not enough brain-power to evaluate and compare complicated products. Thus the standard model of consumer behavior-which depends on an ideal market in which consumers are boundlessly rational-is called into question. While behavioral economists have for some time confirmed and characterized these inconsistencies, the logical next step is to examine the implications they have in markets. Grounded in key observations in consumer psychology, Bounded Rationality and Industrial Organization develops non-standard models of “boundedly rational” consumer behavior and embeds them into familiar models of markets. It then rigorously analyses each model in the tradition of microeconomic theory, leading to a richer, more realistic picture of consumer behavior. Ran Spiegler analyses phenomena such as exploitative price plans in the credit market, complexity of financial products and other obfuscation practices, consumer antagonism to unexpected price increases, and the role of default options in consumer decision making. Spiegler unifies the relevant literature into three main strands: limited ability to anticipate and control future choices, limited ability to understand complex market environments, and sensitivity to reference points. Although the challenge of enriching the psychology of decision makers in economic models has been at the frontier of theoretical research in the last decade, there has been no graduate-level, theory-oriented textbook to cover developments in the last 10-15 years. Thus, Bounded Rationality and Industrial Organization offers a welcome and crucial new understanding of market behavior-it challenges conventional wisdom in ways that are interesting and economically significant, and which in the end effect the well-being of all market participants.
Download or read book Financial Cryptography and Data Security written by Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC 2013), held at Bankoku Shinryokan Busena Terrace Beach Resort, Okinawa, Japan, April 1-5, 2013. The 14 revised full papers and 17 short papers were carefully selected and reviewed from 125 submissions. The papers are grouped in the following topical sections: electronic payment (Bitcoin), usability aspects, secure computation, passwords, privacy primitives and non-repudiation, anonymity, hardware security, secure computation and secret sharing, authentication attacks and countermeasures, privacy of data and communication, and private data retrieval.
Download or read book Theory of Cryptography written by Eike Kiltz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-12-21 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three-volume set LNCS 13747, LNCS 13748 and LNCS 13749 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Theory of Cryptography, TCC 2022, held in Chicago, IL, USA, in November 2022. The total of 60 full papers presented in this three-volume set was carefully reviewed and selected from 139 submissions. They cover topics on post-quantum cryptography; interactive proofs; quantum cryptography; secret-sharing and applications; succinct proofs; identity-based encryption and functional encryption; attribute-based encryption and functional encryption; encryption; multi-party computation; protocols: key agreement and commitments; theory: sampling and friends; lattices; anonymity, verfiability and robustness; ORAM, OT and PIR; and theory.
Download or read book Financial Cryptography and Data Security written by Rainer Böhme and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books constitutes the thoroughly refereed papers and poster abstracts from the FC 2014 Workshops, the First Workshop on Bitcoin Research, BITCOIN 2014, and the Second Workshop on Applied Homomorphic Cryptography and Encrypted Computing, WAHC 2014, co-located with the 18th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, held in Christ Church, Barbados, on March 7, 2014. The 15 full papers and 3 poster abstracts presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. They are grouped in topical sections on Bitcoin transactions, policy and legal issues; Bitcoin security; improving digital currencies; posters, and WAHC papers.
Download or read book Financial Cryptography written by Ari Juels and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-09-21 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 8th Annual Financial Cryptography Conference was held during 9-12 February 2004 in Key West, Florida, USA. The conference was organized by the - international Financial Cryptography Association (IFCA). The program committee, which comprised 25 members, reviewed 78 submissions, of which only 17 were accepted for presentation at the conference. This year's conference differed somewhat from those of previous years in its consideration of papers devoted to implementation, rather than purely conceptual research; one of these submissions was presented at the conference. This represented a movement in the conference toward practical problems and real-world perspectives as a complement to more traditional academic forms of research. In this spirit, the program included a number of excellent invited speakers. In the opening talk of the conference, Jack Selby threw down the gauntlet, - scribing some of the achievements of the PayPal system, but also enumerating reasons for the failures of many elegant e-cash schemes in the past. Ron Rivest, in contrast, described an emerging success in the cleverly conceived Peppercoin micropayment system. Jacques Stern enlightened us with his experience in the cryptographic design of banking cards in France. Simon Pugh unveiled some - tails of anew generation of wireless credit card. Finally,in deference to the many consumers in the world lacking either techno-savvy or technological resources that we often too easily take for granted, Jon Peha described a elded banking system that avoids reliance on conventional financial infrastructures. Thanks to all of these speakers for rounding out the conference with their expertise and breadth of vision.
Download or read book Financial Cryptography and Data Security written by George Danezis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2011, held in Gros Islet, St. Lucia, in February/March 2011. The 16 revised full papers and 10 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 initial submissions. The papers cover all aspects of securing transactions and systems and feature current research focusing on fundamental and applied real-world deployments on all aspects surrounding commerce security; as well as on systems security and inter-disciplinary efforts.
Download or read book Bounded Rationality and Politics written by Jonathan Bendor and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bounded Rationality and Politics, Jonathan Bendor considers two schools of behavioral economics—the first guided by Tversky and Kahneman’s work on heuristics and biases, which focuses on the mistakes people make in judgment and choice; the second as described by Gerd Gigerenzer’s program on fast and frugal heuristics, which emphasizes the effectiveness of simple rules of thumb. Finding each of these radically incomplete, Bendor’s illuminating analysis proposes Herbert Simon’s pathbreaking work on bounded rationality as a way to reconcile the inconsistencies between the two camps. Bendor shows that Simon’s theory turns on the interplay between the cognitive constraints of decision makers and the complexity of their tasks.
Download or read book Cyber Security in Critical Infrastructures written by Stefan Rass and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a compendium of selected game- and decision-theoretic models to achieve and assess the security of critical infrastructures. Given contemporary reports on security incidents of various kinds, we can see a paradigm shift to attacks of an increasingly heterogeneous nature, combining different techniques into what we know as an advanced persistent threat. Security precautions must match these diverse threat patterns in an equally diverse manner; in response, this book provides a wealth of techniques for protection and mitigation. Much traditional security research has a narrow focus on specific attack scenarios or applications, and strives to make an attack “practically impossible.” A more recent approach to security views it as a scenario in which the cost of an attack exceeds the potential reward. This does not rule out the possibility of an attack but minimizes its likelihood to the least possible risk. The book follows this economic definition of security, offering a management scientific view that seeks a balance between security investments and their resulting benefits. It focuses on optimization of resources in light of threats such as terrorism and advanced persistent threats. Drawing on the authors’ experience and inspired by real case studies, the book provides a systematic approach to critical infrastructure security and resilience. Presenting a mixture of theoretical work and practical success stories, the book is chiefly intended for students and practitioners seeking an introduction to game- and decision-theoretic techniques for security. The required mathematical concepts are self-contained, rigorously introduced, and illustrated by case studies. The book also provides software tools that help guide readers in the practical use of the scientific models and computational frameworks.
Download or read book Tutorials on the Foundations of Cryptography written by Yehuda Lindell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-05 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a graduate textbook of advanced tutorials on the theory of cryptography and computational complexity. In particular, the chapters explain aspects of garbled circuits, public-key cryptography, pseudorandom functions, one-way functions, homomorphic encryption, the simulation proof technique, and the complexity of differential privacy. Most chapters progress methodically through motivations, foundations, definitions, major results, issues surrounding feasibility, surveys of recent developments, and suggestions for further study. This book honors Professor Oded Goldreich, a pioneering scientist, educator, and mentor. Oded was instrumental in laying down the foundations of cryptography, and he inspired the contributing authors, Benny Applebaum, Boaz Barak, Andrej Bogdanov, Iftach Haitner, Shai Halevi, Yehuda Lindell, Alon Rosen, and Salil Vadhan, themselves leading researchers on the theory of cryptography and computational complexity. The book is appropriate for graduate tutorials and seminars, and for self-study by experienced researchers, assuming prior knowledge of the theory of cryptography.
Download or read book Theory of Cryptography written by Omer Reingold and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-02-20 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TCC 2009, the 6th Theory of Cryptography Conference, was held in San Fr- cisco, CA, USA, March 15–17, 2009. TCC 2009 was sponsored by the Inter- tional Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) and was organized in - operation with the Applied Crypto Group at Stanford University. The General Chair of the conference was Dan Boneh. The conference received 109 submissions, of which the Program Comm- tee selected 33 for presentation at the conference. These proceedings consist of revised versions of those 33 papers. The revisions were not reviewed, and the authors bear full responsibility for the contents of their papers. The conference program also included two invited talks: “The Di?erential Privacy Frontier,” given by Cynthia Dwork and “Some Recent Progress in Lattice-Based Crypt- raphy,” given by Chris Peikert. I thank the Steering Committee of TCC for entrusting me with the resp- sibility for the TCC 2009 program. I thank the authors of submitted papers for their contributions. The general impression of the Program Committee is that the submissions were of very high quality, and there were many more papers we wanted to accept than we could. The review process was therefore very - warding but the selection was very delicate and challenging. I am grateful for the dedication, thoroughness,and expertise ofthe ProgramCommittee. Obse- ing the way the members of the committee operated makes me as con?dent as possible of the outcome of our selection process.
Download or read book Theory of Cryptography written by Eyal Kushilevitz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-24 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-volume set LNCS 9562 and LNCS 9563 constitutes the refereedproceedings of the 13th International Conference on Theory ofCryptography, TCC 2016, held in Tel Aviv, Israel, in January 2016. The 45 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed andselected from 112 submissions. The papers are organized in topicalsections on obfuscation, differential privacy, LWR and LPN, public key encryption, signatures, and VRF, complexity of cryptographic primitives, multiparty computation, zero knowledge and PCP, oblivious RAM, ABE and IBE, and codes and interactive proofs. The volume also includes an invited talk on cryptographic assumptions.
Download or read book Theory of Cryptography written by Ran Canetti and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fifth Theory of Cryptography Conference, TCC 2008, held in New York, USA, March 19-21, 2008. The 33 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. The papers are organized in 16 sessions dealing with the paradigms, approaches and techniques used to conceptualize, define and provide solutions to natural cryptographic problems.
