Authentication and commodification of cultural events for the tourists has been practiced for a long time. These practices have had both positive and negative effects on the host community and its cultural heritage. Tourism deals with experiences sold to tourists which has had to be authentic. Therefore, this paper aims to look at the authenticity and commodification of cultural events presente...

An authentication-encryption (AE) scheme is an encryption scheme with a pre-shared key providing both data privacy and authenticity. Basic AE scheme can be constructed by a naive (serial) combination of some existing encryption mode together with a message authentication code (MAC). The computation cost of such approach equals to cost of the encryption plus the cost of the MAC. There are severa...

Security infrastructures are increasingly used in the health care and welfare sector, particularly for providing security, like confidentiality, authenticity, integrity, nonrepudiation, and auditing. Especially within the health care sector, there is a need for different kinds of certificates, namely public-key certificates and attribute certificates. This necessity is caused by the huge range ...

Advances in healthcare IT bring new concerns with respect to privacy and security. Security critical patient data no longer resides on mainframes physically isolated within an organization, where physical security measures can be taken to defend the data and the system. Modern solutions are heading towards open, interconnected environments where storage outsourcing and operations on untrusted s...

BACKGROUND/AIM The associations between emotional personality, proximity and authenticity in patient-physician communication during breast cancer (BC) consultations are rarely considered together in a prospective study. We, therefore, investigated emotional personality/proximity versus authenticity in patient-physician communication in healthy study subjects (HSS) and in patients with benign br...

Image authentication has drawn a good attention in both storage as well as communication, with the advancement of technology on the internet. Enforcement of protection of medical content that is being transmitted through the internet also has become a major issue of computer security. Since medical contents are more widely distributed, it is necessary to develop security mechanism to guarantee ...

Thispaper focuses on audio-watermarking authentication and integrity-protection within the context of the speech-data transmitted over the Internet in a real-time learning environment.The Arabic Quran recitation through distance learning is used as a case-study example that is characteristic of sensitive data requiring robust authentication and integrity measures. Thisworkproposes an approach f...

Watermarking is well known as a tool for copyright protection of documents. Digital watermarking is also useful for content authentication and tamper detection. Watermarking could be migrated to egovernance for enhancing security of various e-governance applications. Successful e-governance implementation requires all digital documents issued by the government is protected from illegal attacks ...

The purpose of this paper was to investigate the authenticity of IELTS academic tests. Bachman and Palmer (1996, p. 23) define authenticity as “the degree of correspondence of the characteristics of a given language test task to the features of a target language task”. Authenticity is then an important aspect of testing since it describes the relationship between the test and the real world. Th...