Aims and Scope

The overall goal of the EURASIP Journal on Information Security, sponsored by the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP), is to bring together researchers and practitioners dealing with the general field of information security, with a particular emphasis on the use of signal processing tools to enable the security of digital contents. As such, it addresses any work whereby security primitives and multimedia signal processing are used together to ensure the secure access to the data. Enabling technologies include watermarking, data hiding, steganography and steganalysis, joint signal processing and encryption, perceptual hashing, identification, biometrics, fingerprinting, and digital forensics.

The EURASIP Journal on Information Security is published using an open access publishing model, which makes the full-text of all peer-reviewed papers freely available online with no subscription or registration barriers. EURASIP Journal on Information Security employs a paperless, electronic submission and evaluation system to promote a rapid turnaround in the peer review process. Fairness and transparency of the review process are pursued by traditional and innovative means, including the possibility of reviewers of accepted papers to disclose their identity and publish a brief commentary together with the article.

In addition to creating an international forum for the publication of high quality papers in the broad range of information security, the EURASIP Journal on Information Security aims at reaching the highest quality standards with regard to the experimental section of published papers. To this aim it is required that, whenever present, experimental results are carried out and described by strictly adhering to the scientific principle of experiment reproducibility. For this reason, the editorial board will ensure that the following specific requirements are satisfied, along with the usual requirements of originality and theoretical rigour:

At the same time, it is strongly recommended that the authors share the source code of the algorithms (written in a widely diffused language, e.g. ansi c-code) with readers and reviewers. To this aim specific tools are made available by the electronic submission procedure to upload any relevant piece of the software together with the manuscript. Once the paper is accepted and published, the source code will be freely available to readers under the Creative Commons Non-Commercial License, which allows the free re-use of the source code for all non-commercial purposes.

In order to further facilitate the verification of results and the comparison among competing schemes, a section of the journal will be expressly devoted to experimental evaluation , i.e., papers whose goal is that of comparing existing systems, testing existing algorithms against new data sets, reporting experimental evidence that results published by someone else are wrong (in this last case software sharing is a mandatory requirement).