Cryptography and Security

In a previous post , the notion of treating conferences and journals on equal footing was discussed, challenging the prevailing view among certain quarters that journals hold an always-superior status over conferences. In that post, I pointed out instances where impactful results can emerge from conferences, and not necessarily exclusively from journals. Here, I present other examples from the literature. " Integral Cryptanalysis on Full MISTY1 " by Yasuke Todo was initially presented at CRYPTO 2015 and the research was later extended and published in Vol. 30 (2017) of the Journal of Cryptology (JoC) . The original work was the first to succesfully attack the full-round MISTY1, and is typically regarded as a significant result in cryptography. " Improved Key Recovery Attacks on Reduced-Round AES with Practical Data and Memory Complexities " by Achiya Bar-On and others was first unveiled at CRYPTO 2018. An extended version of this research was subsequently published ...

The answer to the question posed by the title of this article is: It depends on the field and the specific conference and journals that we are referring to. In certain science fields, journals have more prestige than conferences. Articles published in conferences are typically not considered as "publications" when evaluating the annual performance of an academician. In computer science, it can be argued that an article published in a peer-reviewed premier conference proceedings has the same value as an article published in a prestigious journal. You can read Michael Ernst's (a Computer Science Professor at Washington University) opinion about this issue here (written in 2006) . In 2009, when Mosche Vardi (a Computer Science Professor at Rice University) was the Editor-in-Chief of the Communications of the ACM, he  wrote a letter to open up discussions wether conferences are indeed superior in computer science . In January 2020, he wrote another article related to this i...

This is my personal opinion on how to write certain sections of a project including research and final-year projects (FYP) proposal. The following are sections that are typically required in a project proposal. Note that not all proposals strictly follow the structure described in this article. In Malaysia, however, when writing proposals for a Master/PhD research work, a final-year project, a research grant, the proposal's structure is similar to the one described here. Abstract According to the Oxford Dictionary, an abstract is a " summary of the contents of a book, article or speech ". Therefore, an abstract should contain a summary of relevant sections in your project proposal. For a proposal, you may begin with a short introduction, then to the research problems, objectives (what you plan to solve) and methodology (how you plan to solve the problems). The final report or thesis should include a brief mention about what you have accomplished (e.g. the solutions/findin...