An Improved Bit Masking Technique to Enhance Covert Channel Attacks in Everyday IT Systems -- Security and Complexity of a New Variant of the McEliece Cryptosystem using Non-linear Convolutional Codes -- A Secure Distributed Hash-Based Encryption suited for Big Data Systems -- An Assurance Framework and Process for Hybrid Systems -- PakeMail: Authentication and Key Management in Decentralized Secure Email and Messaging via PAKE -- Practically Efficient Attribute-based Encryption for Compartmented and Multilevel Access Structures -- Analysis of In-place Randomized Bit-flipping Decoders for the Design of LDPC and MDPC Code-based Cryptosystems -- Business Analyst Tasks for Requirement Elicitation -- Chained Transaction Protocol Automated Verification using Cl-AtSe -- Overall Feasibility of RF Energy Harvesting for IoT.