Optimal concurrency on FPGA for lightweight medical image encryption

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Vinoth Raj ◽  
Siva Janakiraman ◽  
Rengarajan Amirtharajan

Digitized forms of images do widely used for medical diagnostics. To maintain the privacy of an individual in e-health care applications, securing the medical image becomes essential. Hence exclusive encryption algorithms have been developed to protect the confidentiality of medical images. As an alternative to software implementations, the realization of image encryption architectures on hardware platforms such as FPGA offers significant benefit with its reconfigurable feature. This paper presents a lightweight image encryption scheme for medical image security feasible to realize as concurrent architectural blocks on reconfigurable hardware like FPGA to achieve higher throughput. In the proposed encryption scheme, Lorentz attractor’s chaotic keys perform the diffusion process. Simultaneously, the pseudo-random memory addresses obtained from a Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR) circuit accomplishes the confusion process. The proposed algorithm implemented on Intel Cyclone IV FPGA (EP4CE115F29C7) analyzed the optimal number of concurrent blocks to achieve a tradeoff among throughput and resource utilization. Security analyses such as information entropy, histogram, correlation, and PSNR confirms the algorithm’s encryption quality. The strength of diffusion keys was ensured by randomness verification through the standard test suite from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The proposed scheme has a larger keyspace of 2384 that guarantees good confusion through near-zero correlation, and successful diffusion with a PSNR of <5 dB towards the statistical attacks. Based on the hardware analysis, the optimal number of concurrent architectural blocks (2 N) on the chosen FPGA to achieve higher throughput (639.37 Mbps), low power dissipation (138.85 mW), minimal resource utilization (1268 Logic Elements) and better encryption quality for the proposed algorithm is recommended as 4 (with N = 2).

Author(s):  
Sundararaman Rajagopalan ◽  
Siva Janakiraman ◽  
Amirtharajan Rengarajan

The healthcare industry has been facing a lot of challenges in securing electronic health records (EHR). Medical images have found a noteworthy position for diagnosis leading to therapeutic requirements. Millions of medical images of various modalities are generally safeguarded through software-based encryption. DICOM format is a widely used medical image type. In this chapter, DICOM image encryption implemented on cyclone FPGA and ARM microcontroller platforms is discussed. The methodology includes logistic map, DNA coding, and LFSR towards a balanced confusion – diffusion processes for encrypting 8-bit depth 256 × 256 resolution of DICOM images. For FPGA realization of this algorithm, the concurrency feature has been utilized by simultaneous processing of 128 × 128 pixel blocks which yielded a throughput of 79.4375 Mbps. Noticeably, the ARM controller which replicated this approach through sequential embedded “C” code took 1248 bytes in flash code memory and Cyclone IV FPGA consumed 21,870 logic elements for implementing the proposed encryption scheme with 50 MHz operating clock.


Author(s):  
Jan Sher Khan ◽  
Jawad Ahmad ◽  
Saadullah Farooq Abbasi ◽  
Arshad ◽  
Sema Koc Kayhan

Author(s):  
Prajwalasimha S N ◽  
Kavya S R ◽  
Tanaaz Zeba Ahmed

In this paper, Pseudo Hadamard Transformation (PHT) and non-chaotic substitution based image encryption scheme has been proposed. Images are characterized by intrinsic properties such as, strong redundancy and correlation between the adjacent pixels, hence more vulnerable to cyber-attacks. In the proposed technique, the redundancy and correlation have been effectively reduced by pixel position transformation using PHT and pixel value variation using non chaotic substitution, providing two stage security in encryption for images. Fifteen standard test images are considered for experimental analysis. Better average Number of Pixel Changing Rate (NPCR) and Unified Average pixel Changing Intensity (UACI) are obtained for a set of standard test images compared to more popular existing algorithms.


In this article, a Modified Pseudo Hadamard Transformation (MPHT) and non-Chaotic substitution based image encryption scheme has been proposed. Due to intrinsic properties such as, strong redundancy and correlation between the adjacent pixels, images are more vulnerable to cyber-attacks. In the proposed technique, the redundancy and correlation have been effectively reduced by pixel position transformation using MPHT and pixel value variation using non chaotic substitution, providing two stage security in encryption for secrete images. An average 99.6089% of Number of Pixel Changing Rate (NPCR) and 33.4328% of Unified Average pixel Changing Intensity (UACI) are obtained for a set of standard test images compared to more popular existing techniques


2012 ◽  
Vol 182-183 ◽  
pp. 1800-1804
Author(s):  
Jin Qiu ◽  
Ping Wang

In this paper, a chaos-based image encryption scheme with stream cipher structure is proposed. The key component of the encryption system is a pseudo-random bit generator (PRBG) based on a chaotic map and a linear feedback shift register. The proposed PRBG is not only passes the statistical tests, but also improve the security. The overall design of the image encryption scheme is to be explained while detail cryptanalysis is given.


Author(s):  
Sundararaman Rajagopalan ◽  
Siva Janakiraman ◽  
Amirtharajan Rengarajan

The healthcare industry has been facing a lot of challenges in securing electronic health records (EHR). Medical images have found a noteworthy position for diagnosis leading to therapeutic requirements. Millions of medical images of various modalities are generally safeguarded through software-based encryption. DICOM format is a widely used medical image type. In this chapter, DICOM image encryption implemented on cyclone FPGA and ARM microcontroller platforms is discussed. The methodology includes logistic map, DNA coding, and LFSR towards a balanced confusion – diffusion processes for encrypting 8-bit depth 256 × 256 resolution of DICOM images. For FPGA realization of this algorithm, the concurrency feature has been utilized by simultaneous processing of 128 × 128 pixel blocks which yielded a throughput of 79.4375 Mbps. Noticeably, the ARM controller which replicated this approach through sequential embedded “C” code took 1248 bytes in flash code memory and Cyclone IV FPGA consumed 21,870 logic elements for implementing the proposed encryption scheme with 50 MHz operating clock.


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