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As content is transmitted in content-driven manner in the content-centric network (CCN), it does not require any host address; therefore, it is infeasible to establish a traditional secure channel between hosts. Securing the content transmission in the CCN is a challenging problem. We solve this problem with the content-based encryption, where the encryption key is associated with the content itself, and the private decryption keys are distributed to the authorized consumers. To deal with the security requirements for content-based encryption, we define a security model that captures the key existential unforgeability and semantic security. We then propose a content-based encryption scheme with short ciphertexts, which is proven to be strong key existentially unforgeable and semantically secure in the standard model. We apply the scheme to construct a secure content transmission protocol in the CCN, which captures the security properties of content confidentiality, integrity, resistance to replay attacks and resistance to key forgery attacks. The performance analysis shows that our protocol is efficient for large content transmission.

Biometric cryptosystems and cancelable biometrics are both practical and promising schemes to enhance the security and privacy of biometric systems. Though a number of bio-crypto algorithms have been proposed, they have limited practical applicability because they lack of cancelability. Since biometrics are immutable, the users whose biometrics are stolen cannot use bio-crypto systems anymore. Cancelable biometric schemes are of cancelability; however, they are difficult to compromise the conflicts between the security and performance. By embedded a novel cancelable palmprint template, namely ''two dimensional (2D) Palmprint Phasor'', the proposed palmprint cryptosystem overcomes the lack of cancelability in existing biometric cryptosystems. Besides, the authentication performance is enhanced when users have different tokens/keys. Furthermore, we develop a novel dual-key-binding cancelable palmprint cryptosystem to enhance the security and privacy of palmprint biometric. 2D Palmprint Phasor template is scrambled by the scrambling transformation based on the chaotic sequence that is generated by both the user's token/key and strong key extracted from palmprint. Dual-key-binding scrambling not only has more robustness to resist against chosen plain text attack, but also enhances the secure requirement of non-invertibility. 2D Palmprint Phasor algorithm and dual-key-binding scrambling both increase the difficulty of adversary's statistical analysis. The experimental results and security analysis confirm the efficiency of the proposed scheme.