Research Papers

In Journals

G. Ateniese, A. De Santis, A. L. Ferrara, B. Masucci,
Provably-Secure Time-Bound Hierarchical Key Assignment Schemes,
Journal of Cryptology, accepted for publication.

P. D''Arco, A. De Santis, A. L. Ferrara, B. Masucci,
Variations on a Theme by Akl and Taylor: Security and Tradeoffs,
Theorethical Computer Science, vol. 411, pp. 213-227, 2010. (TCS2010)

A. De Santis, A. L. Ferrara, and B. Masucci,
New Constructions for Provably-Secure Time-Bound Hierarchical Key Assignment Schemes,
Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 407, pp. 213--230, November 2008. (TCS08)

A. De Santis, A. L. Ferrara, and B. Masucci,
An Attack on a Payment Scheme,
Information Sciences, Vol. 178, No. 5, pp. 1418-1421, March 2008. (InfSc08)

A. De Santis, A. L. Ferrara, and B. Masucci,
Enforcing the Security of a Time-bound Hierarchical Key Assignment Scheme,
Information Sciences, Vol. 176, No. 12, pp. 1684--1694, June 2006. (InfSc06)

A. De Santis, A. L. Ferrara, and B. Masucci,
Unconditionally Secure Key Assignment Schemes,
Discrete Applied Mathematics, Vol. 154, No. 2 , pp. 234--252, February 2006. (DAM06)

S. Cimato, A. De Santis, A. L. Ferrara, and B. Masucci,
Ideal Contrast Visual Cryptography Schemes with Reversing,
Information Processing Letters, Vol. 93, n. 4, pp. 199-206, February 28, 2005. (IPL05)

F A. De Santis, A. L. Ferrara, and B. Masucci,
A Simple Algorithm for the Constrained Sequence Problems,
Information Processing Letters, Vol. 92, n. 4, pp. 199-205, November 30, 2004. (IPL04)

F Y.L. Chin, A. De Santis, A. L. Ferrara, N.L. Ho, and S.K. Kim,
A Simple Algorithm for the Constrained Sequence Problems,
Information Processing Letters, vol. 90, n. 4, pp. 175-179, May 31, 2004. (IPL04b)

C. Blundo, S. Cimato, R. De Prisco e A. L. Ferrara,
Modeling A Certified Email Protocol using I/O Automata,
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 99, 2004, pp. 339-359. (ENTCS04)

In Conferences

P. D'Arco, A. De Santis, A. L. Ferrara, and B. Masucci,
Security and Tradeoffs of the Akl-Taylor Scheme and its Variants,

in Proc. of the 34th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science - MFCS 2009,
Novy Smokovec, High Tatras, Slovak Republic, August 24 - 28, 2009, R. Kralovic and D. Niwinski (Eds.),
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5734, pp. 247-257, Springer Verlag, 2009. (MFCS09)

A. L. Ferrara, M. Green, S. Hohenberger, M. O. Pedersen,
Practical Short Signature Batch Verification,
Topics in Cryptology - CTRSA. The Cryptographers' Track at the RSA Conference 2009,
Marc Fischlin (Ed.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5473, pp. 309--324, Springer Verlag, 2009. (CT-RSA09)

A. De Santis, A. L. Ferrara, e B. Masucci,
Efficient Provably-Secure Hierarchical Key Assignment Schemes,
in Proc. of the 32nd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science - MFCS 2007,
Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic,  August 27 - 31, 2007,
L. Kucera and A. Kucera (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4708, pp. 371--382, Springer Verlag, 2007. (MFCS07)

A. De Santis, A. L. Ferrara, and B. Masucci,
New Constructions for Provably-Secure Time-Bound Hierarchical Key Assignment Schemes,
in Proc. of the 12th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies - SACMAT 2007,
Sophia Antipolis, France, June 20 - 22 2007,
pp. 133--138. (SACMAT07)

G. Ateniese, A. De Santis, A. L. Ferrara, e B. Masucci,
Provably-Secure Time-Bound Hierarchical Key Assignment Schemes,
in Proc. of the 14th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security - ACM CCS 2006,
Alexandria, Virginia, USA, November 2006. (CCS06)

A. De Santis, A. L. Ferrara, and B. Masucci,
A New Key Assignment Scheme for Access Control in a Complete Tree Hierarchy,
in Proc. of the International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography - WCC 2005,                                                       
Bergen, Norway, March 14 - 18  2005, O. Ytrehus (Ed.),
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3969, pp. 202--217, Springer Verlag, 2006. (WCC05)

A. L. Ferrara and B. Masucci,
An Information-Theoretic Approach to the Access Control Problem,
in Proc. of The Eighth Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science - ICTCS 2003,                                         
University Center Bertinoro, Italy, October 13 - 15, 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
Vol. 2841, pp. 342--354, Springer Verlag, 2003. (ICTCS03)

A. De Santis, A. L. Ferrara, and B. Masucci,
Unconditionally Secure Hierarchical Key Assignment Schemes,
in Proc. of the International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography - WCC 2003, Veirsalles, France, March 24 - 28, 2003.