Security and Privacy in Communication Networks by Cao, Yinzhi; Luo, Bo; Meng, Weizhi;

Long description:

This two-volume set LNICST 704 - 705 constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, SecureComm 2026, held in Lancaster, UK, during July 21–24, 2026.

The 50 full papers and 1 poster paper included in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 143 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections:

Part I: Authentication, Biometrics & Human Factors; Mobile/Network Security & Measurement; Cryptanalysis, Post-Quantum & Smart-Contract Incentives; Secure & Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning; Blockchain Protocols, Mining & Cross-Chain Systems; Cryptography: Credentials, FE, FHE & PIR; Post-Quantum & Lattice Cryptography; and Applied Crypto for Authentication & Data Hiding.

Part II: AI for Threat Detection & Network Defense; Network Measurement, Fingerprinting & Routing Anomalies; System & Software Security; LLMs and LLM-assisted Analysis; Privacy-Preserving Analytics & Energy Trading; Work-in-Progress session; and Posters.

Table of Contents:

.- Authentication, Biometrics & Human Factors.

.- SAFE: Secret Algebraic Fusion of Embeddings for Private Multi-Modal Biometric Authentication.

.- How Enforcement Shapes 2FA Usability and Perceived Workload: A Comparative Study Across Populations.

.- Full-Stack Model Extraction: Evaluating System-Wide Stealing Attacks.

.- Mobile/Network Security & Measurement.

.- Beyond Local Views: Static-Guided Exploration for Deep-State Android Security Auditing.

.- Fingerprinting and Biasing Bandwidth Measurements.

.- Imperceptible Key Generation with Delay Side-Channel and Multi-Path Routing over Wide-Area Networks.

.- CRChecker: LLM-based Semi-Automated Compliance Checking of 5G Core Implementations against 3GPP Change Requests.

.- Cryptanalysis, Post-Quantum & Smart-Contract Incentives.

.- Strengthening Practical Non-Profiling Side-Channel Attacks via Kalman Filter-Based Power–EM Fusion on AES-128 Devices.

.- Fine-Grained Residual Interval Screening Enhanced Least Square for the Secret Key Recovery of Dilithium.

.- Delegate: Coalition Proof Incentivized Outsourced Computation with Smart Contracts.

.- Secure & Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning.

.- DOOR: Dynamic Orthogonal Obfuscation for Secure and Collusion-Resistant Federated Learning Aggregation.

.- GroHFL: A Group Aggregation Method for Hierarchical Federated Learning Based on Data Distribution and Training Efficiency.

.- Lightweight Privacy-First Federated Learning for Medical AI.

.- TEE-Aided Asynchronous Trust Verification for Federated Learning via Functional Encryption.

.- Blockchain Protocols, Mining & Cross-Chain Systems.

.- Ontology-Driven Authorization Semantics for Cross-Chain Bridges.

.- On the Effectiveness of Insightful Mining against Stubborn Mining.

.- ParaShard: A Fast Path Parallel Execution Approach for Accelerating Cross-Shard Transactions.

.- DiVeR: Differential and Verifiable Data Dissemination for Multi-path Payment Routing.

.- Cryptography: Credentials, FE, FHE & PIR.

.- Revocable Issuer-Hiding Anonymous Credential.

.- Matchmaking Inner Product Functional Encryption.

.- GPU Accelerated Fully Homomorphic Encryption Framework for End-to-End Logistic Regression.

.- Sinba: Low-Latency Vectorized Batch PIR via 2D Baby-Step/Giant-Step.

.- Post-Quantum & Lattice Cryptography.

.- Decompressing LWE: Unlocking Field-Like Operations via Polynomial Matrices.

.- Vulnerability Analysis of Mersenne Number-Based Post-Quantum Cryptosystems in Secure Communication Networks.

.- The Bridge to the Quantum Fortress: How Do Hybrid Cloud Attacks Exploit the Quantum Core?.

.- Applied Crypto for Authentication & Data Hiding.

.- Registration-Optimized Dynamic Group Time-based One-time Passwords for Mobile Access.

.- Adaptive Image Steganography Based on CNN and GAN Architecture and Lightweight Frequency-Domain Encryption.

.- Near-Ultrasonic Environmental Presence as a Third Factor for Usable Authentication.