About this Journal

IET Information Security publishes original research and review articles in the following areas of information security and cryptography. Submitting authors should specify clearly in their cover letter the area into which their paper falls.

• Access Control and Database Security
• Ad-Hoc Network Aspects
• Anonymity and E-Voting
• Authentication
• Block Ciphers and Hash Functions
• Blockchain, Bitcoin (technical aspects only)
• Broadcast Encryption and Traitor Tracing
• Combinatorial Aspects
• Covert Channels and Information Flow
• Critical Infrastructures
• Cryptanalysis
• Dependability
• Digital Banking
• Digital Currencies
• Digital Rights Management
• Digital Signature Schemes
• Digital Steganography
• DNS Security
• Economic Aspects of Information Security
• Elliptic Curve Cryptography and Number Theory
• Embedded Systems Aspects
• Embedded Systems Security and Forensics
• Financial Cryptography
• Firewall Security
• Formal Methods and Security Verification
• Hardware Security
• Human Aspects
• Information Warfare and Survivability
• Intrusion Detection
• Java and XML Security
• Key Distribution
• Key Management
• Malware
• Multi-Party Computation and Threshold Cryptography
• Network Security
• Peer-to-peer Security
• PKIs
• Public-Key and Hybrid Encryption
• Quantum Cryptography
• Risks of using Computers
• Robust Networks
• Secret Sharing
• Secure Electronic Commerce
• Software Obfuscation
• Stream Ciphers
• Trust Models
• Watermarking and Fingerprinting

This journal is published by Hindawi as part of a publishing collaboration with The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). It is a fully open access journal produced under the Hindawi and IET brands. 

The IET has a large scale publishing partnership with Wiley, who own Hindawi, and the Wiley IET Hub can be found here.

ISSN: 1751-8709 (Print) 

ISSN: 1751-8717 (Online) 

DOI: 10.1049/ietis

Content published prior to July 2023 is hosted on the Wiley Online Library and the IET Digital Library. 

IET Information Security is an open access journal. All articles are immediately available to read and reuse upon publication. More information about our Open Access policy can be found on our copyright page.

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