Numerous techniques have been developed over the years in the examination of toolmarks and footwear impression. Recent development in the following aspects are described: shoemark enhancement techniques, new casting materials, comparison scanning electron microscopy, computerized identification of striations, and recovery of erased numbers in new metallic and polymeric materials. Furthermore, q...

The Internet applications and users have very diverse service expectations making the existing forwarding model, which treats all packets the same, inadequate and limiting. Consequently , there is now a widespread consensus that the Internet architecture must be extended to allow certain users and applications to get a better service than others at a higher cost. One approach, called absolute s...

6 Confidentiality is central to trust between doctors and patients. Without assurances about confidentiality, patients may be reluctant to seek medical attention or to give doctors the information they need in order to provide good care. But appropriate information sharing is essential to the efficient provision of safe, effective care, both for the individual patient and for the wider communit...

Logcrypt provides strong cryptographic assurances that data stored by a logging facility before a system compromise cannot be modified after the compromise without detection. We build on prior work by showing how log creation can be separated from log verification, and describing several additional performance and convenience features not previously considered.

Secure Multiparty Computation Privacy Assurances in Multiple Data-Aggregation Transactions. . . . . . . . . . . 3 Kim Le, Parmesh Ramanathan, and Kewal K. Saluja A Secure Priority Queue; Or: On Secure Datastructures from Multiparty Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Tomas Toft Towards Secure Two-Party Computation from the Wire-Tap Channel . . . . ...

Differentiated Services Architecture is a simple, but novel, approach for providing service differentiation in an IP network. However, there are various issues to be addressed before any sophisticated end-to-end services can be offered. This work proposes an Aggregate Flow Control (AFC) technique with a Diffserv traffic conditioner to improve the bandwidth and delay assurance of differentiated ...