Journal of Information Security and Cryptography (Enigma)

Alberto Fuentes
Departamento de Tratamiento de la Información y Criptograma,Instituto de Tecnologías Físicas y de la Información, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, España

Alberto Fuentes received his MSc. degree in Computer Science from the KTH Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm, Sweden in 2007. He has been employed by INTA as computer security specialist from 2007 to 2011 evaluating products and systems with Common Criteria and ITSEC standards and from 2011 to 2013 in EADS as common criteria consultant and I+D researcher. He has wide experience in PKI platforms, ad-hoc application or system penetration testing and system vulnerability analysis, and is currently involved in the design and implementation of software tools to carry out side channel attacks to cryptographic devices, pursuing his Ph.D. degree. 

Luis Hernández
Departamento de Tratamiento de la Información y Criptografía, Instituto de Tecnologías Físicas y de la Información, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, España

Luis Hernández obtained his Graduate in Mathematics at the University of Salamanca (Spain) in 1980 and his Ph.D. in Mathematics at the same university in 1992. He is a researcher at the Department of Information Processing and Cryptography (TIC) at the Institute of Physical and Information Technologies (ITEFI), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid (Spain). He has participated in more than 30 research projects.  He is author of 9 books, 9 patents, more than 150 papers, more than 100 contributions to workshops and conferences, he has supervised 3 doctoral thesis and has served as referee for different SCI journals and for many international conferences. His current research interests include Cryptography and Cryptanalysis of public key cryptosystems (RSA, ElGamal and Chor-Rivest), Cryptosystems based on elliptic and hyperelliptic curves, Graphic Cryptography, Pseudorandom number generators, Digital signature schemes, Authentication and Identification protocols, Crypto-Biometry, Secret sharing protocols, Side channel attacks, and Number Theory problems. Dr. Hernández belongs to the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). 

Agustín Martín
Departamento de Tratamiento de la Información y Criptografía, Instituto de Tecnologías Físicas y de la Información, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, España

Agustín Martín obtained his Graduate in Physics at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) in 1988 and his Ph.D. in Physics at the same university in 1995. He is currently a researcher at the Department of Information Processing and Cryptography (TIC) of the Institute of Physical and Information Technologies (ITEFI), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), in Madrid. He started his research career dealing with the development of numerical methods in electromagnetics to study the interaction of electromagnetic radiation, especially in the radiofrequency range, with different objects as satellites or biological tissues. His latest research interests are focused on the analysis of possible vulnerabilities of radiofrequency identification systems (RFID) and the study of techniques of physical attacks to cryptographic devices. He has published 20 research papers in international scientific journals and is co-author of a book and more than 60 contributions to peer reviewed workshops and conferences. He has participated in 20 research projects and contracts, has taught several courses and seminars, and is co-author of 3 patents. Dr. Martin is member of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). 

Bernardo Alarcos
Departamento de Automática, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, España

Bernardo Alarcos received his Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the University of Alcalá, Spain in 2004. He received his M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the UPM, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain in 1979. Since 1999, he has been employed as an Associate Professor at the Alcalá University. The subject of the thesis was about proposal of security architecture in Programmable Networks. He has participated in more than 5 projects developing activities related with the cybersecurity. Last projects that is working on is about Honeynet services using virtualization. Since 2010, he has been a member of Research Institute for the Police Science (IUICP), in the area of Computer forensics.