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20102026
most citedSSMS - A Secure SMS Messaging Protocol for the M-payment Systems

60 citations · 427 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.CR2026

Differentially Private EEG Feature Anonymization: A Privacy-Utility Case Study in Clinical Neurophysiology

Noman Sadiq, Mohsen Toorani

Clinical electroencephalography (EEG) data are valuable for healthcare research and for developing artificial intelligence (AI)-based clinical decision-support systems, but EEG rec…

cs.CR2026

Secure Aggregation for Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning on Clinical EEG Data

Pouya Rajabi, Mohsen Toorani

Federated learning enables multiple institutions to collaboratively train a shared model without exchanging their raw data. However, individual model updates are data-dependent and…

cs.CR2023★ 5 cited

Blockchain-based Decentralized Identity Management for Healthcare Systems

Arnaf Aziz Torongo, Mohsen Toorani

Blockchain-based decentralized identity management provides a promising solution to improve the security and privacy of healthcare systems and make them scalable. Traditional Ident…

cs.CR2020

A Decentralized Dynamic PKI based on Blockchain

Mohsen Toorani, Christian Gehrmann

The central role of the certificate authority (CA) in traditional public key infrastructure (PKI) makes it fragile and prone to compromises and operational failures. Maintaining CA…

cs.CR2016

Security Protocols in a Nutshell

Mohsen Toorani

Security protocols are building blocks in secure communications. They deploy some security mechanisms to provide certain security services. Security protocols are considered abstra…

cs.CR2015★ 52 cited

On Vulnerabilities of the Security Association in the IEEE 802.15.6 Standard

Mohsen Toorani

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) support a variety of real-time health monitoring and consumer electronics applications. The latest international standard for WBAN is the IEEE 80…

cs.CR2010★ 55 cited

An Elliptic Curve-based Signcryption Scheme with Forward Secrecy

M. Toorani, A. A. Beheshti

An elliptic curve-based signcryption scheme is introduced in this paper that effectively combines the functionalities of digital signature and encryption, and decreases the computa…

cs.CR2010★ 36 cited

Cryptanalysis of an Elliptic Curve-based Signcryption Scheme

M. Toorani, A. A. Beheshti

The signcryption is a relatively new cryptographic technique that is supposed to fulfill the functionalities of encryption and digital signature in a single logical step. Although…

cs.CR2010★ 51 cited

A Secure Variant of the Hill Cipher

M. Toorani, A. Falahati

The Hill cipher is a classical symmetric encryption algorithm that succumbs to the know-plaintext attack. Although its vulnerability to cryptanalysis has rendered it unusable in pr…

cs.CR2010★ 14 cited

A Directly Public Verifiable Signcryption Scheme based on Elliptic Curves

M. Toorani, A. A. Beheshti

A directly public verifiable signcryption scheme is introduced in this paper that provides the security attributes of message confidentiality, authentication, integrity, non-repudi…

cs.CR2010★ 12 cited

Cryptanalysis of an Efficient Signcryption Scheme with Forward Secrecy Based on Elliptic Curve

M. Toorani, A. A. Beheshti

The signcryption is a relatively new cryptographic technique that is supposed to fulfill the functionalities of encryption and digital signature in a single logical step. Several s…

cs.CR2010★ 32 cited

LPKI - A Lightweight Public Key Infrastructure for the Mobile Environments

M. Toorani, A. A. Beheshti

The non-repudiation as an essential requirement of many applications can be provided by the asymmetric key model. With the evolution of new applications such as mobile commerce, it…

cs.CR2010★ 9 cited

SMEmail - A New Protocol for the Secure E-mail in Mobile Environments

M. Toorani

The electronic mail plays an unavoidable role in the humankind communications. With the great interest for the connection via mobile platforms, and the growing number of vulnerabil…

cs.CR2010★ 43 cited

Solutions to the GSM Security Weaknesses

M. Toorani, A. A. Beheshti

Recently, the mobile industry has experienced an extreme increment in number of its users. The GSM network with the greatest worldwide number of users succumbs to several security…

cs.LG2010★ 58 cited

A new approach to content-based file type detection

M. C. Amirani, M. Toorani, A. A. Beheshti

File type identification and file type clustering may be difficult tasks that have an increasingly importance in the field of computer and network security. Classical methods of fi…

cs.CR2010★ 60 cited

SSMS - A Secure SMS Messaging Protocol for the M-payment Systems

M. Toorani, A. A. Beheshti

The GSM network with the greatest worldwide number of users, succumbs to several security vulnerabilities. The short message service (SMS) is one of its superior and well-tried ser…