Computer and Network Security
Refereed Journal Publications
J17. D. G. Berbecaru, "SAM-PAY: A Location-Based Authentication Method for Mobile Environments", in Electronics 2025, 14, 621. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14030621.
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J16. D. G. Berbecaru and A. Lioy, "An Evaluation of X.509 Certificate Revocation and Related Privacy Issues in the Web PKI Ecosystem," in IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 79156-79175, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3299357.
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J15. D. G. Berbecaru, S. Sisinni, A. Lioy, B. Rat, D. Margaria and A. Vesco, "Mitigating Software Integrity Attacks With Trusted Computing in a Time Distribution Network," in IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 50510-50527, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3276476.
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J14. Diana Gratiela Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy and Cesare Cameroni, "On Enabling Additional Natural Person and Domain-Specific Attributes in the eIDAS Network," in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 134096-134121, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3115853.
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J13. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Cesare Cameroni, "Providing Login and Wi-Fi Access Services with the eIDAS Network: A Practical Approach", in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 126186-126200, 2020, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3007998.
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J12. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy , Cesare Cameroni, "Supporting authorize-then-authenticate for wi-fi access based on an electronic identity infrastructure", in Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications, 11(2), pp. 34-54, doi: 10.22667/JOWUA.2020.06.30.034
J11. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Cesare Cameroni, "Providing digital identity and academic attributes through European eID infrastructures: Results achieved, limitations, and future steps", in Software: Practice and Experience, Vol.49, Issue 11, November 2019, pp. 1643-1662, Online ISSN: 1097-024X, Print ISSN: 0038-0644, doi: 10.1002/spe.2738
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J10. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Cesare Cameroni, "Electronic identification for universities: Building cross-border services based on the eIDAS infrastructure" in Information (Switzerland), Volume 10, Issue 6, June 2019, 210, doi:10.3390/info10060210
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J9. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, "Exploiting the European Union trusted service status list for certificate validation in STORK: design, implementation, and lessons learnt", in Software: Practice and Experience, Vol.45, Issue 11, November 2015, pp. 1457-1477, Online ISSN: 1097-024X, Print ISSN: 0038-0644, doi: 10.1002/spe.2292
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J8. Diana Berbecaru, Matteo Maria Casalino, Antonio Lioy, "FcgiOCSP: a scalable OCSP-based Certificate Validation System exploiting the FastCGI interface" in Software: Practice and Experience, John Wiley & Sons, Vol.43, Issue 12, December 2013, pp. 1489-1518, Online ISSN: 1097-024X, Print ISSN: 0038-0644, doi: 10.1002/spe.2148
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J7. Diana Berbecaru, Luca Albertalli, Antonio Lioy, "The ForwardDiffSig scheme for multicast authentication" in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol.18, No.6, December 2010, pp.1855-1868, ISSN: 1063-6692, doi: 10.1109/TNET.2010.2052927
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J6. Diana Berbecaru, Amarkumar Desai, Antonio Lioy, "A unified, flexible solution for integrating CRL and OCSP into PKI applications", in Software: Practice and Experience, John Wiley & Sons, Volume 39, Issue 10, July 2009, pp. 891-921, Online ISSN: 1097-024X Print ISSN:0038-0644, doi: 10.1002/spe.918
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J5. Verso applicazioni concrete della firma digitale (prima parte). Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Daniele Mazzocchi, Fabio Maino, Gianluca Ramunno, In: IGED - Informazioni sulla Gestione Elettronica dei Documenti, Anno X, Ottobre/Dicembre 2001, No. 4, pp. 32-37.
J4. Verso applicazioni concrete della firma digitale (seconda parte). Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Daniele Mazzocchi, Fabio Maino, Gianluca Ramunno. In: IGED - Informazioni sulla Gestione Elettronica dei Documenti, Anno XI, Gennaio/Marzo 2002, No. 1, pp. 26-34.
J3. Management of attribute certificates for access control. Diana Berbecaru, Marius Marian. In: Annals of the University of Craiova, Series: Electrical Engineering, Anno 26, No. 26/2002, pp. 10-21, ISSN 1223-530X.
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J2. A practical approach to expressing digitally signed documents. Diana Berbecaru, Marius Marian. In: Annals of the University of Craiova, Series: Electrical Engineering, Anno 27, No. 27/2003, pp. 79-86, ISSN 1223-530X. [PDF]
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J1. DNS-based implementation of a PKI repository. Marius Marian, Diana Berbecaru. In: Annals of the University of Craiova, Series: Electrical Engineering, Anno 27, No. 27/2003, pp. 157-165, ISSN 1223-530X.
Book Chapters
B2. On creating digital evidence in IP networks with NetTrack. Diana Berbecaru. In: Handbook of research on network forensics and analysis techniques, IGI Global, 2018, ISBN13: 9781522541004,ISBN10: 1522541004,EISBN13: 9781522541011, doi: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4100-4
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B1. Digital Certificates and Public Key Infrastructures. Diana Berbecaru, Corrado Derenale, Antonio Lioy. In: Information Security Policies and Actions in Modern Integrated Systems, a cura di M.G.Fugini e C.Bellettini, IDEA group, February 2004, pp. 64-97, ISBN 1-59140-291-3 (soft cover) / 1-59140-186-0 (hard cover), doi: 10.4018/978-1-59140-186-5.ch002
Conference proceedings
C42. Diana Gratiela Berbecaru and Antonio Lioy. 2024. Threat-TLS: A Tool for Threat Identification in Weak, Malicious, or Suspicious TLS Connections. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 125, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1145/3664476.3670945
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C41. G. D’Onghia, D. G. Berbecaru and A. Lioy, "Shaping a Quantum-Resistant Future: Strategies for Post-Quantum PKI," 2024 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Paris, France, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ISCC61673.2024.10733624.
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C40. D. G. Berbecaru and S. Giannuzzi, "On Detecting Anomalous TLS Connections with Artificial Intelligence Models," 2024 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Paris, France, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ISCC61673.2024.10733669.
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C39. S. Sisinni, D. G. Berbecaru, V. Donnini and A. Lioy, "MATCH-IN: Mutual Attestation for Trusted Collaboration in Heterogeneous IoT Networks," 2024 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Paris, France, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ISCC61673.2024.10733616.
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C38. D. G. Berbecaru, S. Sisinni and M. Simone, "On the evaluation of X.509 certificate processing in Transport Layer Security interceptors," 2024 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Paris, France, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ISCC61673.2024.10733685.
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C37. E. Bravi, A. Lioy and D. G. Berbecaru, "Integrity Management in Softwarized Networks," NOMS 2024-2024 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 2024, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/NOMS59830.2024.10574994.
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C36. Berbecaru, D.G., Giannuzzi, S. (2024). Fighting TLS Attacks: An Autoencoder-Based Model for Heartbleed Attack Detection. In: Köhler-Bußmeier, M., Renz, W., Sudeikat, J. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing XVI. IDC 2023. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1138. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60023-4_9
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​C35. E. Bravi, D. G. Berbecaru and A. Lioy, "A Flexible Trust Manager for Remote Attestation in Heterogeneous Critical Infrastructures," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), Naples, Italy, 2023, pp. 91-98, doi: 10.1109/CloudCom59040.2023.00027.
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C34. D. G. Berbecaru and L. Pintaldi, "Exploiting Emercoin Blockchain and Trusted Computing for IoT Scenarios: A Practical Approach," 2023 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Gammarth, Tunisia, 2023, pp. 771-776, doi: 10.1109/ISCC58397.2023.10217961.
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C33. D. G. Berbecaru, S. Giannuzzi and D. Canavese, "Autoencoder-SAD: An Autoencoder-based Model for Security Attacks Detection," 2023 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Gammarth, Tunisia, 2023, pp. 758-763, doi: 10.1109/ISCC58397.2023.10217930.
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C32. D. G. Berbecaru and S. Sisinni, "Counteracting software integrity attacks on IoT devices with remote attestation: a prototype," 2022 26th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), Sinaia, Romania, 2022, pp. 380-385, doi: 10.1109/ICSTCC55426.2022.9931765.
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C31. D. Berbecaru, "Verification of X.509 Attribute Certificates for Attribute-based Authorization: A Practical Approach," 2021 25th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), Iasi, Romania, 2021, pp. 346-351, doi: 10.1109/ICSTCC52150.2021.9607273.
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C30. Berbecaru, D.G., Lioy, A. (2022). Attack Strategies and Countermeasures in Transport-Based Time Synchronization Solutions. In: Camacho, D., Rosaci, D., Sarné, G.M.L., Versaci, M. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing XIV. IDC 2021. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1026. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96627-0_19
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C29. M. Pini et al., "Satellite-derived Time for Enhanced Telecom Networks Synchronization: the ROOT Project," 2021 IEEE 8th International Workshop on Metrology for AeroSpace (MetroAeroSpace), Naples, Italy, 2021, pp. 288-293, doi: 10.1109/MetroAeroSpace51421.2021.9511780.
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C28. D. Berbecaru and C. Cameroni, "ATEMA: An attribute enablement module for attribute retrieval and transfer through the eIDAS Network," 2020 24th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), Sinaia, Romania, 2020, pp. 532-539, doi: 10.1109/ICSTCC50638.2020.9259642.
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C27. Authorize-then-Authenticate: Supporting Authorization Decisions Prior to Authentication in an Electronic Identity Infrastructure. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Cesare Cameroni. In: Intelligent Distributed Computing XIII, 13th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing, IDC 2019, St. Petersburg, Russia, 7-9 October, 2019. Studies in Computational Intelligence 868, Springer 2020, ISBN 978-3-030-32257-1, pp. 313-322, doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-32258-8_37. PlumX Metrics
C26. On integration of academic attributes in the eIDAS infrastructure to support cross-border services. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy. In: IEEE Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC 2018), 10-12 October 2018, Sinaia (Romania), pp. 691-696, IEEE, doi: 10.1109/ICSTCC.2018.8540674
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C25. Towards Stronger Data Security in an eID Management Infrastructure. Diana Berbecaru, Andrea, Atzeni, Marco De Benedictis, Paolo Smiraglia. In: IEEE Proceedings of 25th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP 2017), 06-08 March 2017, St. Petersburg (Russia), pp. 391-395, IEEE Computer Society, doi: 10.1109/PDP.2017.90
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C24. On the Design, Implementation and Integration of an Attribute Provider in the Pan-European eID Infrastructure. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy. In: IEEE Proceedings of the Twenty-First IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (IEEE ISCC 2016), 27-30 June 2016, Messina (Italy), pp. 1263-1269, IEEE Computer Society, doi: 10.1109/ISCC.2016.7543910
C23. Efficient Attribute Management in a Federated Identity Management Infrastructure. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy. In: IEEE Proceedings of 24th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP 2016), 17-19 February 2016, Heraklion (Greece), pp. 590-595, IEEE Computer Society, doi: 10.1109/PDP.2016.102
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C22. Federating e-identities across Europe, or how to build cross-border e-services. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Marco Mezzalama, Giorgio Santiano, Enrico Venuto, Marco Oreglia. In: Proceedings of AICA 2011: Smart Tech and Smart Innovation conference, Torino (Italy), November 15-17, 2011, pp. 1-10, ISBN: 9788890540646. [PDF]
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C21. Exploiting proxy-based federated identity management in wireless roaming access. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Marco Domenico Aime. In: Proceeding of TrustBus 2011: 8th Int. Conf. on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business, Toulouse (France), August 29-September 2, 2011, pp. 13-23, vol. 6863 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer, 2011, ISSN: 0302-9743, ISBN: 978-3-642-22889-6, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-22890-2_2
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C20. LRAP: A Location-Based Remote Client Authentication Protocol for Mobile Environments. Diana Berbecaru. In: Proceeding of PDP 2011: The 19th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing, Ayia Napa (Cyprus), February 9-11, 2011, pp. 141 - 145, IEEE Computer Society, ISSN Number: 1066-6192, ISBN Number: 978-0-7695-4328-4, doi: 10.1109/PDP.2011.32
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C19. Performance of two one-time signature schemes in space/time constrained environments. Diana Berbecaru. In: Proceedings of IEEE ISWPC 2010: IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing, Modena (Italy), May 5-7, 2010, pp.238-243, ISBN: 978-1-4244-6857-7, doi: 10.1109/ISWPC.2010.5483755
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C18. On the Performance and Use of a Space-Efficient Merkle Tree Traversal Algorithm in Real-Time Applications for Wireless and Sensor Networks. Diana Berbecaru, Luca Albertalli. In: Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference onWireless and Mobile Networking and Communications (WiMob 2008), Avignon (France), October 12-14, 2008, pp. 234-240, IEEE Computer Society, ISBN: 978-0-7695-3393-3, doi: 10.1109/WiMob.2008.14
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C17. An Optimized Double Cache Technique for Efficient Use of Forward-secure Signature Schemes. Diana Berbecaru, Luca Albertalli. In: Proceedings of the 16th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing (PDP 2008), Toulouse (France),13-15 February 2008, pp. 581-589 IEEE Computer Society, doi: 10.1109/PDP.2008.64
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C16. On the Robustness of Applications Based on the SSL and TLS Security Protocols. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy. In: Proceedings of the 4th European PKI Workshop: Theory and Practice (EuroPKI 2007), Palma de Mallorca (Spagna), 28-30 June, 2007, vol. 4582 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, pp. 248-264, doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-73408-6_18
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C15. On the tradeoff between performance and security in OCSP-based certificate revocation systems for wireless environments. Diana Berbecaru. In: Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC 2006), Cagliari (Sardinia), Italia, 26-29 June, 2006, pp. 340-346, doi: 10.1109/ISCC.2006.114
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C14. On Measuring SSL-based Secure Data Transfer with Handheld Devices. Diana Berbecaru. In: Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Symposium onWireless Communication Systems (ISWCS2005), Siena (Italy), 5-7 September, 2005, pp. 409-413, doi: 10.1109/ISWCS.2005.1547731
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C13. FIrDA-SSL: Experiments with securing communication in PANs. Diana Berbecaru. In: Proceedings of the First IEEE/CREATE-NET Workshop on Security and QoS in Communication Networks (SeCQos 2005), workshop held in conjunction with SecureComm-2005: IEEE/Create-Net International Conference on Security and Privacy for Emerging Areas in Communication Networks, Athens (Greece), 5-9 September, 2005, pp. 295-305, doi: 10.1109/SECCMW.2005.1588324
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C12. MBS-OCSP: an OCSP based certificate revocation system for wireless environments. Diana Berbecaru. In: Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT 2004), Rome (Italy), 18-21 December, 2004, pp. 267-272, doi: 10.1109/ISSPIT.2004.1433737
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C11. Preliminary steps in designing and implementing a Privilege Verifier for PMI. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy. In: Proceedings of IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2004 (IADIS 2004), Madrid (Spagna), 6-9 October, 2004, pp. 317-324, ISBN 972-99353-0-0. [PDF]
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C10. Support for public-key infrastructures in DNS. Marius Marian, Diana Berbecaru. In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on systems theory, automation, robotics, computers, informatics, electronics and instrumentation (SINTES 11), XIth edition, Vol. II (Software engineering, Computer engineering and Electronics), 23-24 October, 2003, Craiova (Romania), pp. 451-456, ISBN 973-8043-415-5 / 973-8043-416-6. [PDF]
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C9. Representation of E-documents in AIDA Project. Diana Berbecaru, Marius Marian, In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on systems theory, automation, robotics, computers, informatics, electronics and instrumentation (SINTES 11), XIth edition, Vol. II (Software engineering, Computer engineering and Electronics), 23-24 October, 2003, Craiova (Romania), pp. 393-398, ISBN 973-8043-415-5 / 973-8043-416-6. [PDF]
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C8. Towards Simplifying PKI Implementation: Client-Server based Validation of Public Key Certificates. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy. In: Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT 2002), 18-21 December, 2002, Marrakech (Marocco), pp. 277-282, ISBN 0-9727186-0-5. [PDF]
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C7. Secure Digital Administration in Medical Environment. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Diana Marano, Marius Marian. In: Proceedings of IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2002, Lisbon (Portugal), 13-15 Novembre, 2002, pp. 299-306, ISBN 972-9027-53-6. [PDF]
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C6. Security aspects in standard certificate revocation mechanisms: a case study for OCSP. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Marius Marian. In: Proceedings of 7th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2002), Taormina/Giardini Naxos (Italy), 1-4 July, 2002, pp. 484-489, doi: 10.1109/ISCC.2002.1021719
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C5. A Framework for Secure Digital Administration. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Marius Marian. In: Proceedings of EuroWeb2001 - The Web in Public Administration, IW3C endorsed conference, 18-20 Dicembre, 2001, Pisa (Italy), pp. 119-133, ISBN 88-88327-33-9. [PDF]
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C4. PKI-based System Management. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Marius Marian. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Automatic Control and Computer Science (SACCS 2001), 26-27 October, 2001, Iasi (Romania). [PDF]
C3. On the Complexity of Public-Key Certificate Validation. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Marius Marian. In: Proceedings of the 4th International Information Security Conference (ISC 2001), 1-3 October, 2001, Malaga (Spagna), vol. 2200 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2001, pp. 183-203, doi: 10.1007/3-540-45439-X_13
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C2. A Flexible Management Framework for Certificate Status Validation. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Fabio Maino, Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montanari, Cesare Stefanelli. In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Security (IFIPSEC 2000), IFIP 16th World Computer Congress, 21-25 Agosto, 2000, Beijing (China), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 481-490, doi: 10.1007/978-0-387-35515-3_49
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C1. Towards concrete application of electronic signature. Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy, Daniele Mazzocchi, Fabio Maino, Gianluca Ramunno. In: Proceedings of AICA Congress 2000, 27-30 September, 2000, Taormina (Italy), pp. 543-561. [PDF]
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