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Impact Factor News

IET Information Security's Impact Factor increased by an impressive 227% to 0.892 in 2010.

Scope

IET Information Security publishes original research papers in the following areas of information security and cryptography. Submitting authors should specify clearly in their covering statement the area into which their paper falls:

• Access Control and Database Security
• Ad-Hoc Network Aspects
• Anonymity and E-Voting
• Authentication
• Biometrics
• Block Ciphers and Hash Functions
• Broadcast Encryption and Traitor Tracing
• Combinatorial Aspects
• Covert Channels and Information Flow
• Critical Infrastructures
• Cryptanalysis
• Dependability
• Digital Rights Management
• Digital Signature Schemes
• Digital Steganography
• 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
• Human Aspects
• Information Warfare and Survivability
• Intrusion Detection
• Java and XML Security
• Key Distribution
• Key Management and Secret Sharing
• Malware
• Multi-Party Computation and Threshold Cryptography
• Peer-to-peer Security
• PKIs
• Public-Key and Hybrid Encryption
• Quantum Cryptography
• Risks of using Computers
• Robust Networks
• Secure Electronic Commerce
• Software Obfuscation
• Stream Ciphers
• Trust Models
• Watermarking and Fingerprinting

Forthcoming Special Issue

• Multi-Agent and Distributed Information Security

Featured Paper

Design and verification of a non-repudiation protocol based on receiver-side smart card, Vol.4, No.1, p.15–29

Author and Reader Benefits

• Online Submissions and tracking platform
• Prompt and rigorous peer review
• No page charges
• Worldwide readership and database coverage
• All content also available via the IEEE Xplore digital library

IET Research Journals are available online (in advance of printed publication) via the IET Digital Library. To access the full-text of articles for this journal, you will need a valid subscription, or you can purchase individual articles by clicking the 'Buy This PDF' link on the article abstract page.

Citing this Journal

IET Information Security is usually cited by the abbreviated title 'IET Inf. Secur.' Every article in this journal is assigned a Crossref DOI, which is displayed on the article abstract page.

Previous Title

Online subscribers to IET Information Security can access all backfile issues from 2007 onwards as well as all issues of IEE Proceedings Information Security from 2005-2006 as part of their current online subscription.