About Digital Security

The use of digital technologies is irremediably embedded in modern societies and allow us to perform daily activities such as purchasing goods online, storing health data, and expressing ourselves in social media. However, these actions could be potentially threatening if unprotected from data leakage attacks. Digital security is the collective term to define the tools employed to protect our online presence, data, and other assets.

The aim of this Collection is to gather the latest research performed in the broad area of Digital Security that analyse the current threats and limitations of our security systems, and propose alternatives and new approaches to tackle future challenging scenarios.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• Cryptography: homomorphic encryption, zero-knowledge proofs, digital signatures, light-weight devices, hardware improvements, lattice-based cryptography, among others.
• Post-quantum digital security.
• Digital Security tools: Instant Message encryption, Navigation Privacy, Telephone Encryption Tools.
• Data protection: user data leakages, effects in contemporary law and policy.

All article processing charges will be covered centrally by the European Commission.

Open Research Europe requires open access to research data supporting articles under the principle ‘as open as possible, as closed as necessary’. All articles should include citations to repositories that host the data underlying the results, together with any information needed to replicate, validate, and/or reuse the results/your study and analysis of the data. We recognise there may be exceptions due to ethical, data protection, or confidentiality considerations, or because the data have been obtained from a third party and access restrictions apply.