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A randomly-selected sample of 31,115 words taken from the eight original plays of Lillian Hellman was analyzed on the basis of female and male dialogue. Lexical classes--verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns--were examined by studying terms described by other researchers, especially Mary P. Hiatt, as belonging to generally "feminine" or "masculine" categories. In these classes, differences were statistically significant based on gender in two areas.Adjective figures that took into account type 1) of adjective, 2) of referent, and 3) of speaker showed statistical significance. This was true only for the "feminine" adjectives, especially as used by female speakers for female referents. Pronouns were distributed through the plays and used by the genders of speakers at significant levels of difference. A connection was evidenced between each gender of speaker and the gender of pronouns used, a strong relationship that also showed significance by play.Areas of syntax studied were emphasis, communication unit length, and clause structure. Markings of emphasis were significant by gender, female characters having both more instances and more marked words. Length evidenced no difference, likely because of requirements of the dramatic setting. The study of clause structure showed that female characters were given more whole sentences and more coordination at significant levels.Each area studied was analyzed for statistical significance. Hiatt's results were also statisticaly calculated and reported. Significance was based on chi-square calculations, at a level of p < .05 for rejecting null hypotheses. In addition to an axis based on gender, figures were also computed for specific plays.Applying the categories to individual plays and characters showed Hellman"s use of these strategies to define personality. For instance, with adjectives and emphasis, types more often given to female characters were also given in comparatively large number to themen in the Hubbard plays (The Little Foxes, and Another Part of the Forest), thereby marking them as unusual and adding to their characterization. / Department of English

The Master thesis is an introduction to cryptology. The Thesis describe cryptosystems and selects one ideal cypher for low-power microcontroler. In thesis provides manual for instal development program COde Composer Studio, basic implementation of selected cryptosystem with small numbers and suggestion for implementation selected cyptosystem with big numbers.

La sécurisation inhérente aux échanges dans les environnements dynamiques et distribués, dépourvus d’une coordination centrale et dont la topologie change perpétuellement, est un défi majeur. Dans le cadre de cette thèse, on se propose en effet de définir une infrastructure de sécurité adaptée aux contraintes des systèmes P2P actuels. Le premier volet de nos travaux consiste à proposer un intergiciel, appelé SEMOS, qui gère des sessions sécurisées et mobiles. SEMOS permet en effet de maintenir les sessions sécurisées actives et ce, même lorsque la configuration réseau change ou un dysfonctionnement se produit. Cette faculté d’itinérance est rendue possible par la définition d’un nouveau mécanisme de découplage afin de cloisonner l’espace d’adressage de l’espace de nommage ; le nouvel espace de nommage repose alors sur les tables de hachage distribuées (DHT). Le deuxième volet définit un mécanisme distribué et générique d’échange de clés adapté à l’architecture P2P. Basé sur les chemins disjoints et l’échange de bout en bout, le procédé de gestion des clés proposé est constitué d’une combinaison du protocole Diffie-Hellman et du schéma à seuil(k, n) de Shamir. D’une part, l’utilisation des chemins disjoints dans le routage des sous-clés compense l’absence de l’authentification certifiée, par une tierce partie, consubstantielle au protocole Diffie-Hellman et réduit, dans la foulée, sa vulnérabilité aux attaques par interception. D’autre part, l’extension de l’algorithme Diffie-Hellman par ajout du schéma à seuil (k, n) renforce substantiellement sa robustesse notamment dans la segmentation des clés et/ou en cas de défaillances accidentelles ou délibérées dans le routage des sous-clés. Enfin, les sessions sécurisées mobiles sont évaluées dans un réseau virtuel et mobile et la gestion des clés est simulée dans un environnement générant des topologies P2P aléatoires. / Securing communications in distributed dynamic environments, that lack a central coordination point and whose topology changes constantly, is a major challenge.We tackle this challenge of today’s P2P systems. In this thesis, we propose to define a security infrastructure that is suitable to the constraints and issues of P2P systems. The first part of this document presents the design of SEMOS, our middleware solution for managing and securing mobile sessions. SEMOS ensures that communication sessions are secure and remain active despite the possible disconnections that can occur when network configurations change or a malfunction arises. This roaming capability is implemented via the definition of a new addressing space in order to split up addresses for network entities with their names ; the new naming space is then based on distributed hash tables(DHT). The second part of the document presents a generic and distributed mechanism for a key exchange method befitting to P2P architectures. Building on disjoint paths andend-to-end exchange, the proposed key management protocol consists of a combination of the Diffie-Hellman algorithm and the Shamir’s (k, n) threshold scheme. On the onehand, the use of disjoint paths to route subkeys offsets the absence of the third party’s certified consubstantial to Diffie-Hellman and reduces, at the same time, its vulnerability to interception attacks. On the other hand, the extension of the Diffie-Hellman algorithm by adding the threshold (k, n) scheme substantially increases its robustness, in particular in key splitting and / or in the case of accidental or intentional subkeys routing failures. Finally, we rely on a virtual mobile network to assess the setup of secure mobile sessions.The key management mechanism is then evaluated in an environment with randomly generated P2P topologies.

隨著科技的進步，智慧卡的種類漸增，功能也愈趨完善，生活中需要使用到智慧卡的時機也愈來愈頻繁，與之相對的，其安全性也愈加受到重視，尤其在卡片遺失的情形下，必須做到卡片中留存的資料就算被有心人士竊取，也無法從中得出使用者密碼(password)，藉以偽冒成合法使用者，如此才能確保卡片使用者的安全。為了達到此一目的，許多學者在智慧卡的安全機制上做了許多的研究，如：2012年學者Cheng等人提出了一個基於智慧卡的遠端使用者登錄認證機制。同一時期，學者Li等人也提出了多伺服器網路中，基於密碼驗證的智慧卡認證機制。本研究中，我們發現Cheng等人及Li等人所自訂之智慧卡認證協議，在智慧卡遺失的情況下，並未提供完整的保密環境，導致其使用者與伺服器雙方所建立的秘鑰與會議金鑰可能被破解而無法得知。因此，我們提出了改良版的基於邏輯運算的智慧卡身分驗證機制，加入Diffie-Hellman密鑰交換，以達到更具安全性的目標。 / With advances in technology, different types and functions of smart cards have become more popular and perfect in recent years. We use smart cards in daily life more and more frequent, so smart card security has become a very important issue, especially in the case of smart-card-loss. We have to ensure that if our card is lost and someone steals the sensitive data in our card, he/she cannot use it to guess or get user’s password. To achieve the goal, many researchers have done a lot of work in smart card security. In 2012 Cheng et al. proposed a smart card based authentication scheme for remote user login and verification. During the same period, Li et al. proposed a password and smart card based user authentication mechanism for multi-server environments. In this thesis, we first pointed out the security flaws of Cheng et al.’s and Li et al.’s mechanism. We found that Cheng et al.’s and Li et al.’s mechanism cannot be secure under offline-dictionary attack in the smart-card-loss case. This enables adversaries to guess user’s password and session keys. Secondly, we introduced an improved version of smart card based authentication mechanism using Diffie-Hellman key exchange to overcome the above mentioned problems

Der Vortrag erläutert das Grundprinzip des Diffie-Hellman-Schlüsseltausches mithilfe des diskreten Logarithmus unter Zuhilfenahme elliptischer Kurven über endlichen Körpern.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:55:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JoseMF.pdf: 585000 bytes, checksum: d743090da952a3d8b178ffb4048abd4b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-12-16 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) identifies object by using the radio frequency which is a non-contact automatic identification technique. This technology has shown its powerful practical value and potential in the field of manufacturing, retailing, logistics and hospital automation. Unfortunately, the key problem that impacts the application of RFID system is the security of the information. Recently, researchers have demonstrated solutions to security threats in RFID technology. Among these solutions are several key management protocols. This master dissertations presents a performance evaluation of Neural Cryptography and Diffie-Hellman protocols in RFID systems. For this, we measure the processing time inherent in these protocols. The tests was developed on FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) platform with Nios IIr embedded processor. The research methodology is based on the aggregation of knowledge to development of new RFID systems through a comparative analysis between these two protocols. The main contributions of this work are: performance evaluation of protocols (Diffie-Hellman encryption and Neural) on embedded platform and a survey on RFID security threats. According to the results the Diffie-Hellman key agreement protocol is more suitable for RFID systems / Identifica??o por r?dio freq??ncia, tamb?m chamada de RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), representa uma tecnologia de transmiss?o de dados sem fio. Estes dados s?o relacionados principalmente a c?digos de identifica??o. A tecnologia RFID vem apresentando um grande potencial de utiliza??o em setores da automa??o industrial, residencial e hospitalar. No entanto, estas aplica??es podem resultar em riscos a seguran?a e privacidade dos usu?rios. Recentemente, pesquisadores v?m apresentando poss?veis solu??es as amea?as de seguran?a da tecnologia. Entre estas solu??es est?o os protocolos de distribui??o de chaves criptogr?ficas. O presente trabalho tem como objetivo realizar uma avalia??o de desempenho dos protocolos de Criptografia Neural e Diffie-Hellman na gera??o de chaves em sistemas RFID. Para isso, iremos mensurar o tempo de processamento destes protocolos. Para os testes foi desenvolvido uma plataforma em FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) com o processador embarcado Nios IIr. Sobre esta plataforma foram utilizados os protocolos de Criptografia Neural e Diffie-Hellman no processo de gera??o de chaves criptogr?ficas. A metodologia de pesquisa baseia-se na agrega??o de conhecimento ao desenvolvimento de novos sistemas RFID atrav?s de uma an?lise comparativa entre esses dois protocolos de seguran?a da informa??o. As principais contribui??es deste trabalho s?o: avalia??o de desempenho dos protocolos (Diffie- Hellman e Criptografia Neural) em uma plataforma embarcada e um levantamento bibliogr?fico de pesquisas relacionadas ? seguran?a da informa??o em sistemas RFID. Nos resultados obtidos foi poss?vel observar que o protocolo de Diffie-Hellman ? mais apropriado para sistemas RFID

Der Vortrag erläutert das Grundprinzip des Diffie-Hellman-Schlüsseltausches mithilfe des diskreten Logarithmus unter Zuhilfenahme elliptischer Kurven über endlichen Körpern.

The importance of an authenticated key exchange (AKE) protocol has long been known in the field of cryptography. Two of the questions still being asked today are (1) what properties or features does a secure AKE protocol possess, and (2) How does one, in a step by step fashion, create a secure AKE protocol? This thesis aims to answer these two questions. The thesis contains two parts: one is a survey of previous works on the desired features of the Station-to-Station (STS) protocol, and the other is a study of a previously proposed design methodology in designing secure AKE protocols, as well as contributing an original idea of such methodologies. Descriptions and comparisons of the two design methodologies are included. The thesis surveys the literature and conducts a case study of the STS protocol, analyzes various attacks on STS through some known attacks to it, and extracts the desired properties and features of a secure AKE protocol via the case study. This part of the thesis does not propose any new result, but summarizes a complete list of issues one should take consideration of while designing an AKE protocol. We also show that at the end of this part, a secure version of STS which possesses the desired features of an AKE protocol. The other major part of the thesis surveys one design methodology of creating a secure AKE protocol by Bellare, Canetti, and Krawczyk; it is based on having a secure key exchange protocol then adding (mutual) authentication to it. The thesis then proposes another original design methodology; it starts with a secure mutual authentication protocol, then adds the secure key exchange feature without modifying overheads and number of flows of the original mutual authentication protocol. We show in this part the "secure" AKE protocol developed through these two design approaches is identical to the secure version of STS described in the other part, and thus possesses the desired features of a secure AKE protocol. We also give a proof of security of the secure AKE protocol developed under our design methodology.