Editorial

摘要

We are pleased to bring this issue of publication. In the first paper on "Novel Mutual Authentication Protocol for Cloud Computing using Secret Sharing and Steganography" the authors Nimmy and Sethumadhavan have proposed a mutual authentication between user and cloud server where they authenticate one another. The protocol designed by them and the scheme achieves authentication using secret sharing. They claim that the security features makes the protocol well suited for the cloud environment. Ahmad Alomari in his paper on "Fully Self Organized of Certificate Authority in MANETs" has prepared a proposal that will provide the mobile ad hoc network flexible and efficient to make renewal and revoke certificate authority. The approach he has used can able to enhance the process of building fully self certificate authority of nodes.