The demand for a secured web storage system is increasing daily for its reliability which ensures data privacy and confidentiality. The proposed paper aims to find the most secure ways to maintain integrity and protect privacy and security in healthcare management systems. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm is used to encrypt data transferred by providing a means to check the integrity of information transmitted and make it more immune to cyberattack techniques, this was implemented by using Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC) and Secured Hash Algorithm-256 (SHA-256). The risk of exposure to attackers can be avoided by using honeypot systems combined with Intrusion detection systems (IDSs) as a firewall system is not effective against such attacks alone. The experimental results evaluate the proposed security health information management system by comparing the performance of the encryption algorithm based on encryption time, memory and CPU usage, and entropy for different plaintext lengths. In addition, it can be seen that when changing the AES key size, more memory and time are required the longer the key size is used. The 128 bits AES key is therefore advised if the system must operate in hard real-time.
In nowadays world of rapid evolution of exchanging digital data, data protection is required to protect data from the unauthorized parities. With the widely use of digital images of diverse fields, it is important to conserve the confidentiality of image’s data form any without authorization access. In this paper the problem of secret key exchanging with the communicated parities had been solved by using a random number generator which based on Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR). The encryption/decryption is based on Advance Encryption Standard (AES) with the random key generator. Also, in this paper, both grayscale and colored RGB images have been encrypted/decrypted. The functionality of proposed system of this paper, is concerned with three features: First feature, is dealing with the obstetrics of truly random and secure encryption key while the second one deals with encrypting the plain or secret image using AES algorithm and the third concern is the extraction the original image by decrypting the encrypted or cipher one. “Mean Square Error (MSE)”, “Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR)”, “Normalized Correlation (NK)”, and “Normalized Absolute Error (NAE)” are measured for both (original-encrypted) images and (original-decrypted) image in order to study and analyze the performance of the proposed system according to image quality features.
Cryptography is one of the technological means to provide security to data being transmitted on information and communication systems. When it is necessary to securely transmit data in limited bandwidth, both compression and encryption must be performed. Researchers have combined compression and encryption together to reduce the overall processing time. In this paper, new partial encryption schemes are proposed to encrypt only part of the compressed image. Soft and hard threshold compression methods are used in the compression step and the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cipher is used for the encryption step. The effect of different threshold values on the performance of the proposed schemes are studied. The proposed partial encryption schemes are fast, secure, and do not reduce the compression performance of the underlying selected compression methods.
The incredible growth of FPGA capabilities in recent years and the new included features have made them more and more attractive for numerous embedded systems. There is however an important shortcoming concerning security of data and design. Data security implies the protection of the FPGA application in the sense that the data inside the circuit and the data transferred to/from the peripheral circuits during the communication are protected. This paper suggests a new method to support the security of any FPGA platform using network processor technology. Low cost IP2022 UBICOM network processor was used as a security shield in front of any FPGA device. It was supplied with the necessary security methods such as AES ciphering engine, SHA-1, HMAC and an embedded firewall to provide confidentiality, integrity, authenticity, and packets filtering features.