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Go to Editorial ManagerBecause elliptic curve cryptography offers a promising trade-off between security and computational performance, the field of current cryptographic techniques has taken a particular interest in it. Two basic digital signature algorithms—the Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Algorithm (ECDH) and the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) are the subject of this performance analysis and comparison. These methods are based on elliptic curve cryptography. The analysis takes into consideration realistic application demands as well as factors like key length and security level. The results provide useful information on trade-offs between performance and security. A list of acceptable ECDSA requirements for digital signatures was used for the comparison. These characteristics are sign, sign/s, no PC verify, no PC verify/s, siglen, keygen, keygen/s, verify, and verify/s.
In the world of modern technology and the huge spread of its use, it has been combined with healthcare systems and the establishment of electronic health records (EHR) to follow up on patients. This merging of technology with healthcare has allowed for more accurate EHRs that follow a patient to different healthcare facilities. Timely exchange of electronic health information (EHR) between providers is critical for aiding medical research and providing fast patient treatment. As a result, security issues and privacy problems are viewed as significant difficulties in the healthcare system. Several remote user authentication methods have been suggested. In this research, we present a feasible patient EHR migration solution for each patient. finally, each patient may securely delegate their current hospital’s information system to a hospital certification authority in order to receive migration proof that can be used to transfer their EHR to a different hospital. In addition, the proposed scheme is based on crypto-hash functions and asymmetric cryptosystems by using homomorphic cryptography. The proposed scheme carried out two exhaustive formal security proofs for the work that was provided. Using Scyther, a formal security tool, we present a secure user authentication technique in the proposed healthcare scheme that ensures security and informal analysis.
The security of communications in various transmitted information’s forms such as video, audio, image, and even text and preserving them from attackers has become of great importance in the age of the Internet and cellular networks. Perhaps one of the most important media used to transmit information is digital images. They are distinguished from video and audio by their lack of complexity, and at the same time they are distinguished from text by the possibility of containing more information. Due to the necessity of transmitting huge amounts of information via digital images through additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels for various applications. This transmission of images over unsecured channels is vulnerable to many attacks that must be protected by information security tools. In this research, a hybrid chaos-based system was developed to encrypt and secure images and send them via an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) channel, which leads to transferring large amounts of transmitted information in a short time, with very little interference between the data, and maintaining the transfer rate. Two chaotic techniques, Rossler and Modified Chau system, are used together to create a secret encryption key. This combination of chaotic systems provides highly random sensitive keys with amplitude of 10252 that are difficult to predict by the attacker and which makes restoring the original image very difficult in the event of a very small change in the chaotic parameters. Many tests were conducted to determine the strength of the proposed system, including statistical and differential analysis and entropy to verify the strength of the image security approach, in addition to applying some types of attacks to the encrypted image, such as noise and cropping different parts of the image. It is clear that the proposed scheme has strong immunity to these attacks. This was proven by the comparative experimental results. The entropy ratio was very excellent compared to the rest of the results obtained in the rest of the research. This was also the case with the values of (NPCR), (UACI), (NPCR), and Mean Square Error (MSE) was also very good as compared with other researches in the literature. The proposed security approach for OFDM gave a low link and a low bit error rate. And a higher signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR).
Lately, image encryption has stand out as a highly urgent demand to provide high security for digital images against use and unauthorized distribution. A lot of existing researches use chaotic systems, symmetric or asymmetric schemes for image encryption, but cryptosystem based on one encryption technique only, faces many challenges like weak security and low complexity. Therefore, incorporating two or more different ciphering methods yields a secure and efficient algorithm to protect image information. In this work, a new image cryptosystem is suggested by joining zigzag scan technique, RSA algorithm and chaotic systems. These three security factors introduce Triple Incorporated Ciphering stages system (TIC). Initially, the plaintext image is divided into 8 × 8 non-overlapping blocks, then the odd blocks are isolated from the even blocks. After that, a new modified zigzag scan in two different directions is adopted for shuffling pixels in the odd and even blocks. This operation effectively enhances the shuffling degree. Next, the RSA algorithm is utilized after combining the scrambled blocks in one matrix. Finally, chaotic systems are implemented on the resultant encrypted matrix to complete the ciphering process. The chaos is implemented in two steps; confusion and diffusion. Duffing map is exploited in the confusion stage, whereas L¨u system is adopted on the shuffled matrix in the diffusion stage. The simulation results show the superiority of TIC in both security and attacks robustness compared to other cryptographic algorithms. Therefore, TIC can be exploited in real-time communication systems for secure image transmission.
Nowadays, it is difficult to imagine a powerful algorithm of cryptography that can continue cryptanalyzing and attacking without the use of unconventional techniques. Although some of the substitution algorithms are old, such as Vigen`ere, Alberti, and Trithemius ciphers, they are considered powerful and cannot be broken. In this paper we produce the novelty algorithm, by using of biological computation as an unconventional search tool combined with an uninhibited analysis method is the vertical probabilistic model, that makes attacking and analyzing these ciphers possible and very easy to transform the problem from a complex to a linear one, which is a novelty achievement. The letters of the encoded message are processed in the form of segments of equal length, to report the available hardware components. Each letter codon represents a region of the memory strand, and the letters calculated for it are symbolized within the probabilistic model so that each pair has a triple encoding: the first is given as a memory strand encoding and the others are its complement in the sticker encoding; These encodings differ from one region to another. The solution space is calculated and then the parallel search process begins. Some memory complexities are excluded even though they are within the solution paths formed, because the natural language does not contain its sequences. The precision of the solution and the time consuming of access to it depend on the length of the processed text, and the precision of the solution is often inversely proportional to the speed of access to it. As an average of the time spent to reach the solution, a text with a length of 200 cipher characters needs approximately 15 minutes to give 98% of the correct components of the specific hardware. The aim of the paper is to transform OTP substitution analysis from a NP problem to a O(nm) problem, which makes it easier to find solutions to it easily with the available capabilities and to develop methods that are harnessed to attack difficult and powerful ciphers that differ in class and type from the OTP polyalphabetic substitution ciphers.
IoHT has several benefits for real-time smart healthcare, but because of its limited processing power, storage capacity, and self-defense capabilities, security issues are growing. Although newer blockchain-based authentication solutions have strong security features due to their tamper-resistant decentralized architecture, they come with a high resource cost, requiring a lot of processing power, more storage, and time-consuming authentication procedures. As such, these difficulties provide barriers to reaching the ideal levels of scalability and temporal efficiency, which are essential for the efficient functioning of large-scale, time-sensitive IoHT systems. To solve these challenges, this paper presents an authentication approach designed especially for IoHT systems. Our work consists four-phase process, which includes setting, registration, login and authentication, and HERs Exchange data. To enhance both efficiency and scalability, the proposed scheme employs a combination of 3-D map dimensions chaotic-based public key cryptosystems, and blockchain-based, fog computing technologies and IPFS. We simulate the proposed work to implement health electronic record (HER) by the Ethereum platform and solidity language, the simulation experiments were tested using the JMeter tool. Showed that the key generation time for chaotic-based is faster than (ECC)—furthermore, the average latency ≈ 3.7 ms. A security analysis of the proposed scheme was implemented by the Scyther tool. The formal security analysis demonstrated that the proposed scheme is secured against potential attacks and supports the scalability of the IoHT system.
Technology and digital communications have advanced so that digital photos, videos, or text may be easily manipulated by those not authorized to do so. In addition, the availability of specialized picture editing programs like Photoshop has simplified the process of altering photographs. At first glance, there may seem to be no problem, especially when an image editing method is necessary to delete or add a certain scene that increases the picture's beauty. But what about personal images or images with copyright? Attempts are constantly made to spoof these images using different approaches. Therefore, measures to reduce the likelihood of counterfeiting in digital and printed forms of media are required. The proposed approach aims to detect a counterfeit in images using a unique generator that conceals the data represented by the embedded watermark utilizing modern visual cryptography and hash algorithms. Image extractions may easily be analyzed for signs of forgery. As a result, our approach will detect and validate phony documents and images.
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.
Audio encryption has gained popularity in a variety of fields including education, banking over the phone, military, and private audio conferences. Data encryption algorithms are necessary for processing and sending sensitive information in the context of secure speech conversations. In recent years, the importance of security in any communications system has increased. To transfer data securely, a variety of methods have been used. Chaotic system-based encryption is one of the most significant encryption methods used in the field of security. Chaos-based communication is a promising application of chaos theory and nonlinear dynamics. In this research, a chaotic algorithm for the new chaotic chameleon system was proposed, studied, and implemented. The chameleon chaotic system has been preferred to be employed because it has the property of changing from self-excited (SA) to hidden-attractor (HA) which increases the complexity of the system dynamics and gives strength to the encryption algorithm. A chaotic chameleon system is one in which, depending on the parameter values, the chaotic attractor alternates between being a hidden attractor and a self-excited attractor. This is an important feature, so it is preferable to use it in cryptography compared to other types of chaotic systems. This model was first implemented using a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), which is the first time it has been implemented in practical applications. The chameleon system model was implemented using MATLAB Simulink and the Xilinx System Generator model. Self-excited, hidden, and coexisting attractors are shown in the proposed system. Vivado software was used to validate the designs, and Xilinx ZedBoard Zynq-7000 FPGA was used to implement them. The dynamic behavior of the proposed chaotic system was also studied and analysis methods, including phase portrait, bifurcation diagrams, and Lyapunov exponents. Assessing the quality of the suggested method by doing analyses of many quality measures, including correlation, differential signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), entropy, histogram analysis, and spectral density plot. The numerical analyses and simulation results demonstrate how well the suggested method performs in terms of security against different types of cryptographic assaults.
Nowadays, multimedia communication has become very widespread and this requires it to be protected from attackers and transmitted securely for reliability. Encryption and decryption techniques are useful in providing effective security for speech signals to ensure that these signals are transmitted with secure data and prevent third parties or the public from reading private messages. Due to the rapid improvement in digital communications over the recent period up to the present, the security of voice data transmitted over various networks has been classified as a favored field of study in earlier years. The contributions to audio encryption are discussed in this review. This Comprehensive review mainly focuses on presenting several kinds of methods for audio encryption and decryption the analysis of these methods with their advantages and disadvantages have been investigated thoroughly. It will be classified into encryption based on traditional methods and encryption based on advanced chaotic systems. They are divided into two types, continuous-time system, and discrete-time system, and also classified based on the synchronization method and the implementation method. In the fields of information and communications security, system designers face many challenges in both cost, performance, and architecture design, Field Programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) provide an excellent balance between computational power and processing flexibility. In addition, encryption methods will be classified based on Chaos-based Pseudo Random Bit Generator, Fractional-order systems, and hybrid chaotic generator systems, which is an advantageous point for this review compared with previous ones. Audio algorithms are presented, discussed, and compared, highlighting important advantages and disadvantages. Audio signals have a large volume and a strong correlation between data samples. Therefore, if traditional cryptography systems are used to encrypt such huge data, they gain significant overhead. Standard symmetric encryption systems also have a small key-space, which makes them vulnerable to attacks. On the other hand, encryption by asymmetric algorithms is not ideal due to low processing speed and complexity. Therefore, great importance has been given to using chaotic theory to encode audio files. Therefore, when proposing an appropriate encryption method to ensure a high degree of security, the key space, which is the critical part of every encryption system, and the key sensitivity must be taken into account. The key sensitivity is related to the initial values and control variables of the chaotic system chosen as the audio encryption algorithm. In addition, the proposed algorithm should eliminate the problems of periodic windows, such as limited chaotic range and non-uniform distribution, and the quality of the recovered audio signal remains good, which confirms the convenience, reliability, and high security.