This journal seeks original manuscripts in English for a special issue scheduled to appear in the June issue of 2018. This journal is an international journal publishing original research and review papers on all security areas including network security, cryptography, and cybersecurity.

There have been tremendous efforts exerted in the field of cryptography by mathematicians and computer scientists. However, at the same time, there are security concerns that still have to be properly addressed. Also, for cipher to be secure and robust, the power constraints should also be considered. Moreover, one critical requirement for a modern cipher is to be distortion tolerant; the distortion can be inserted intentionally by an unauthenticated user or can be unintentionally caused by a wireless channel.

The goal followed in this special issue is to create a volume of recent work on advances in all aspects of cryptography, especially towards those ciphers which can tolerate channel noise.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Noise resistant cryptography
• Lightweight cryptography
• Public key cryptography
• Efficient implementation of cryptographic algorithms
• Computational number theory
• Cryptanalytic attacks
• Side-channel attacks
• Data hiding
• Authentication
• Key management
• Multiparty computation
• Quantum-safe cryptography
• Symmetric cryptography
• Pairing based cryptography
• Pseudo-random sequences
• Cryptographic protocols
• Cryptanalysis
• Security applications
• Privacy
• Public key infrastructure
• Zero knowledge proofs
• Untraceability