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Overview

Zhenfu Cao is affiliated with East China Normal University in China and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence, information systems, computer networks and communications, computational theory and mathematics, and computer vision and pattern recognition. Their research output includes over 200 publications in these subfields.

Their main research topics encompass a broad range of areas related to security and privacy in computing, including cryptography and data security, privacy-preserving technologies in data, blockchain technology applications and security, cloud data security solutions, complexity and algorithms in graphs, coding theory and cryptography, and cryptographic implementations and security.

Zhenfu Cao has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including Xiaolei Dong, Jiachen Shen, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, and Jun Zhou. These partnerships have contributed to a substantial number of joint publications across multiple venues.

The scientist has published in leading venues such as:

  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
  • Frontiers of Computer Science
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Zhenfu Cao are:

  • "A Differentially Private Federated Learning Model against Poisoning Attacks in Edge Computing" (2022, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing)
  • "Blockchain-Based Lightweight Certificate Authority for Efficient Privacy-Preserving Location-Based Service in Vehicular Social Networks" (2020, IEEE Internet of Things Journal)
  • "PADP: Efficient Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation and Dynamic Pricing for Vehicle-to-Grid Networks" (2020, IEEE Internet of Things Journal)
  • "Two Secure and Efficient Lightweight Data Aggregation Schemes for Smart Grid" (2020, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid)
  • "SESCF: A Secure and Efficient Supply Chain Framework via Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts" (2021, Security and Communication Networks)

Best Publications

  • Security and privacy for storage and computation in cloud computing

    Lifei Wei;Haojin Zhu;Zhenfu Cao;Xiaolei Dong

  • Security and Privacy for Cloud-Based IoT: Challenges

    Jun Zhou;Zhenfu Cao;Xiaolei Dong;Athanasios V. Vasilakos

  • CCA-Secure Proxy Re-encryption without Pairings

    Jun Shao;Zhenfu Cao

  • Secure Threshold Multi Authority Attribute Based Encryption without a Central Authority

    Huang Lin;Zhenfu Cao;Xiaohui Liang;Jun Shao

  • Attribute based proxy re-encryption with delegating capabilities

    Xiaohui Liang;Zhenfu Cao;Huang Lin;Jun Shao

  • White-Box Traceable Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption Supporting Any Monotone Access Structures

    Zhen Liu;Zhenfu Cao;D. S. Wong

  • White-Box Traceable Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption Supporting Flexible Attributes

    Jianting Ning;Xiaolei Dong;Zhenfu Cao;Lifei Wei

  • Simple three-party key exchange protocol

    Rongxing Lu;Zhenfu Cao

  • Proxy re-encryption with keyword search

    Jun Shao;Zhenfu Cao;Xiaohui Liang;Huang Lin

  • A Probabilistic Misbehavior Detection Scheme toward Efficient Trust Establishment in Delay-Tolerant Networks

    Haojin Zhu;Suguo Du;Zhaoyu Gao;Mianxiong Dong

  • 4S: A secure and privacy-preserving key management scheme for cloud-assisted wireless body area network in m-healthcare social networks

    Jun Zhou;Zhenfu Cao;Zhenfu Cao;Xiaolei Dong;Xiaolei Dong;Naixue Xiong

  • Auditable $\sigma $ -Time Outsourced Attribute-Based Encryption for Access Control in Cloud Computing

    Jianting Ning;Zhenfu Cao;Xiaolei Dong;Kaitai Liang

  • Provably secure and efficient bounded ciphertext policy attribute based encryption

    Xiaohui Liang;Zhenfu Cao;Huang Lin;Dongsheng Xing

  • Secure threshold multi authority attribute based encryption without a central authority

    Huang Lin;Zhenfu Cao;Xiaohui Liang;Jun Shao

  • Survey of information security

    ChangXiang Shen;HuangGuo Zhang;DengGuo Feng;ZhenFu Cao

  • PDAFT: A privacy-preserving data aggregation scheme with fault tolerance for smart grid communications

    Le Chen;Le Chen;Rongxing Lu;Zhenfu Cao

  • Fully secure multi-authority ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption without random oracles

    Zhen Liu;Zhenfu Cao;Qiong Huang;Duncan S. Wong

  • Blackbox traceable CP-ABE: how to catch people leaking their keys by selling decryption devices on ebay

    Zhen Liu;Zhenfu Cao;Duncan S. Wong

  • Human-Factor-Aware Privacy-Preserving Aggregation in Smart Grid

    Weiwei Jia;Haojin Zhu;Zhenfu Cao;Xiaolei Dong

  • Efficient and provably secure multi-receiver identity-based signcryption

    Shanshan Duan;Zhenfu Cao

Frequent Co-Authors

Rongxing Lu
Rongxing Lu Queen's University
Jun Shao
Jun Shao Zhejiang Gongshang University
Haojin Zhu
Haojin Zhu Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Xiaodong Lin
Xiaodong Lin University of Guelph
Xiaohui Liang
Xiaohui Liang University of Massachusetts Boston
Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo
Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo The University of Texas at San Antonio
Xuemin Shen
Xuemin Shen University of Waterloo
Duncan S. Wong
Duncan S. Wong City University of Hong Kong
Athanasios V. Vasilakos
Athanasios V. Vasilakos University of Agder
Yuguang Fang
Yuguang Fang City University of Hong Kong

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