scholarly journals SecureVision: An Open-Source User-Customizable Image Encryption Program

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
pp. 7915
Author(s):  
Mehrdad Shahmohammadi Beni ◽  
Hiroshi Watabe ◽  
Kwan Ngok Yu
Keyword(s):  
Image Encryption ◽  
Random Number Generator ◽  
Sensitive Information ◽  
Brute Force ◽  
File Transfer ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Custom Made ◽  
Encryption And Decryption ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Program Modules

Data security has become indispensable, with a view to keep sensitive information confidential. One important method is through image encryption, upon which features in an image would no longer be visible. The original image with its features could only be restored upon decryption using a set of keys. There are prestigious works in the literature regarding image encryption. However, there is a lack of easy-to-use, GUI-based, user-customizable computer programs for image encryption. In the present work, we developed a GUI-based image encryption and decryption program with server file transfer support, namely, SecureVision. A custom-made random number generator using the equation of an ellipse was developed to randomly shuffle the pixel positions. SecureVision was found to be robust, user-friendly and fast in both encryption and decryption. The program was highly sensitive to the supplied keys, which prevented brute-force attacks. SecureVision provided full user control, where users could modify the program modules to match their desired applications, which was particularly desirable for pedagogical purposes in that interested parties had the freedom to explore the concept of image encryption and decryption. SecureVision is distributed under a GPLv3 license, which would allow everyone to use, modify and distribute the program without any restriction.

scholarly journals A Lightweight Chaos-Based Medical Image Encryption Scheme Using Random Shuffling and XOR Operations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fawad Masood ◽  
Maha Driss ◽  
Wadii Boulila ◽  
Jawad Ahmad ◽  
Sadaqat Ur Rehman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Image Encryption ◽  
Storage Systems ◽  
Medical Images ◽  
Chaotic Map ◽  
Communication Channels ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Sensitive Information ◽  
X Rays ◽  
Brain Images ◽  
Contrast Analysis

AbstractMedical images possess significant importance in diagnostics when it comes to healthcare systems. These images contain confidential and sensitive information such as patients’ X-rays, ultrasounds, computed tomography scans, brain images, and magnetic resonance imaging. However, the low security of communication channels and the loopholes in storage systems of hospitals or medical centres put these images at risk of being accessed by unauthorized users who illegally exploit them for non-diagnostic purposes. In addition to improving the security of communication channels and storage systems, image encryption is a popular strategy adopted to ensure the safety of medical images against unauthorized access. In this work, we propose a lightweight cryptosystem based on Henon chaotic map, Brownian motion, and Chen’s chaotic system to encrypt medical images with elevated security. The efficiency of the proposed system is proved in terms of histogram analysis, adjacent pixels correlation analysis, contrast analysis, homogeneity analysis, energy analysis, NIST analysis, mean square error, information entropy, number of pixels changing rate, unified average changing intensity, peak to signal noise ratio and time complexity. The experimental results show that the proposed cryptosystem is a lightweight approach that can achieve the desired security level for encrypting confidential image-based patients’ information.

scholarly journals Hybrid Image Encryption Technique Using Genetic Algorithm and Lorenz Chaotic System

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 03009
Author(s):  
Vishwanath Chikkareddi ◽  
Anurag Ghosh ◽  
Preksha Jagtap ◽  
Sahil Joshi ◽  
Jeel Kanzaria
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Image Encryption ◽  
Chaotic System ◽  
Random Number ◽  
Current Image ◽  
Space Efficiency ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Key Sensitivity ◽  
Lorenz Chaotic System ◽  
Time And Space Complexity

One of the important application of image encryption is storing confidential and important images on a local device or a database in such a way that only the authorized party can view or perceive it. The current image encryption technique employs the genetic algorithm to increase confusion in the image, but compromises in time and space complexity. The other method employs chaos or pseudo random number generating systems which have fast and highly sensitive keys but fails to make the image sufficiently noisy and is risky due to its deterministic nature. We propose a technique which employs the non-deterministic, optimizing power of genetic algorithm and the space efficiency and key sensitivity of chaotic systems into a unified, efficient algorithm which will retain the merits of both the methods whereas tries to minimize their demerits in a software system. The encryption process proceeds in two steps, generating two keys. First, an encryption sequence is generated using Lorenz Chaotic system of differential equation. The seed values used are the user’s actual key having key sensitivity of 10-14. Second, the encrypted image’s genetic encryption sequence is generated which will result in an encrypted image with entropy value greater than 7.999 thus ensuring the image is very noisy. Proposed technique uses variations of Lorenz system seed sets to generate all random mutations and candidate solutions in Genetic encryption. Since only the seed sets leading to desired solution is stored, space efficiency is higher compared to storing the entire sequences. Using this image encryption technique we will ensure that the images are hidden securely under two layers of security, one chaotic and other non-deterministic.

FPGA implementation and image encryption application of a new PRNG based on a memristive Hopfield neural network with a special activation gradient

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fei Yu ◽  
Zinan Zhang ◽  
Hui Shen ◽  
Yuanyuan Huang ◽  
Shuo Cai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Image Encryption ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Random Sequence ◽  
Random Number Generator ◽  
Security Analysis ◽  
Hopfield Neural Network ◽  
Data Encryption ◽  
Design Tool ◽  
Processing Unit

Abstract In this paper, a memristive Hopfield neural network with a special activation gradient (MHNN) is proposed by adding a suitable memristor to the Hopfield neural network (HNN) with a special activation gradient. The MHNN is simulated and dynamic analyzed, and implemented on FPGA. Then, a new pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) based on MHNN is proposed. The post-processing unit of the PRNG is composed of nonlinear post-processor and XOR calculator, which effectively ensures the randomness of PRNG. The experiments in this paper comply with the IEEE 754-1985 high precision 32-bit floating point standard and are done on the Vivado design tool using a Xilinx XC7Z020CLG400-2 FPGA chip and the Verilog-HDL hardware programming language. The random sequence generated by the PRNG proposed in this paper has passed the NIST SP800-22 test suite and security analysis, proving its randomness and high performance. Finally, an image encryption system based on PRNG is proposed and implemented on FPGA, which proves the value of the image encryption system in the field of data encryption connected to the Internet of Things (IoT).

scholarly journals Study A Public Key in RSA Algorithm

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 395-398
Author(s):  
Taleb Samad Obaid
Keyword(s):  
Private Information ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Prime Numbers ◽  
Public Key ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Sensitive Information ◽  
Rsa Algorithm ◽  
Encryption And Decryption ◽  
Main Disadvantage ◽  
Encryption Decryption

To transmit sensitive information over the unsafe communication network like the internet network, the security is precarious tasks to protect this information. Always, we have much doubt that there are more chances to uncover the information that is being sent through network terminals or the internet by professional/amateur parasitical persons. To protect our information we may need a secure way to safeguard our transferred information. So, encryption/decryption, stenographic and vital cryptography may be adapted to care for the required important information. In system cryptography, the information transferred between both sides sender/receiver in the network must be scrambled using the encryption algorithm. The second side (receiver) should be outlook the original data using the decryption algorithms. Some encryption techniques applied the only one key in the cooperation of encryption and decryption algorithms. When the similar key used in both proceeds is called symmetric algorithm. Other techniques may use two different keys in encryption/decryption in transferring information which is known as the asymmetric key.  In general, the algorithms that implicated asymmetric keys are much more secure than others using one key.   RSA algorithm used asymmetric keys; one of them for encryption the message, and is known as a public key and another used to decrypt the encrypted message and is called a private key. The main disadvantage of the RSA algorithm is that extra time is taken to perform the encryption process. In this study, the MATLAB library functions are implemented to achieve the work. The software helps us to hold very big prime numbers to generate the required keys which enhanced the security of transmitted information and we expected to be difficult for a hacker to interfere with the private information. The algorithms are implemented successfully on different sizes of messages files.

scholarly journals An Efficient Method of Image Encryption Using Rossler Chaotic System

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Yasir Ahmed Hamza ◽  
Marwan Dahar Omer
Keyword(s):  
Image Encryption ◽  
Chaotic System ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Computation Time ◽  
Encryption Algorithm ◽  
Brute Force ◽  
Symmetric Encryption ◽  
New Approach ◽  
System Parameters ◽  
Plain Image

In this study, a new approach of image encryption has been proposed. This method is depends on the symmetric encryption algorithm RC4 and Rossler chaotic system. Firstly, the encryption key is employed to ciphering a plain image using RC4 and obtains a ciphered-image. Then, the same key is used to generate the initial conditions of the Rossler system. The system parameters and the initial conditions are used as the inputs for Rossler chaotic system to generate the 2-dimensional array of random values. The resulted array is XORed with the ciphered-image to obtain the final encrypted-image. Based on the experimental results, the proposed method has achieved high security and less computation time. Also, the proposed method can be resisted attacks like (statistical, brute-force, and differential).

scholarly journals A New Symmetric Key Cryptographic Algorithm using Paley Graphs and ASCII Values

2021 ◽  
Vol 297 ◽  
pp. 01046
Author(s):  
Zhour Oumazouz ◽  
Driss Karim
Keyword(s):  
Brute Force ◽  
Strong Regularity ◽  
Quadratic Residues ◽  
Cryptographic Algorithm ◽  
Paley Graph ◽  
Encryption And Decryption ◽  
Symmetric Key ◽  
Brute Force Attack ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Paley Graphs

The main objective of the study conducted in this article is to introduce a new algorithm of encryption and decryption of a sensitive message after transforming it into a binary message. Our proposed encryption algorithm is based on the study of a particular graph constructed algebraically from the quadratic residues. We have exploited the Paley graph to introduce an abstract way of encryption of such message bit according to the other message bits by the intermidiate study of the neighborhood of a graph vertex. The strong regularity of the Paley graphs and the unknown behavior of the quadratic residues will play a very important role in the cryptanalysis part which allows to say that the brute force attack remains for the moment the only way to obtain the set of possible messages.

Readable Diagrammatic Query Language ViziQuer

2018 ◽  
pp. 1389-1408
Author(s):  
Martins Zviedris
Keyword(s):  
Query Language ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
Iterative Approach ◽  
Data Input ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
End User ◽  
Data Querying ◽  
Custom Made ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
User Friendly

End-user interaction with data is one of key aspects in data processing. Nowadays a lot of information systems have a custom made user interface for data input and data querying. From 1970s it is envisioned that a generic, user-friendly approach for data querying could be built, but no wide spread solution has been developed. In the paper we present a diagrammatic query language. We have done an iterative approach to design and improve the diagrammatic query language to make it user readable. Readability is analyzed with questionnaires. Readable diagrammatic query language is the first step to create a more generic and user-friendly data querying.

Who is Guarding the Doors

2011 ◽  
pp. 299-315
Author(s):  
Manish Gupta ◽  
Pradeep Kumar KB ◽  
H. R. Rao
Keyword(s):  
Recent Trend ◽  
Internet Banking ◽  
Online Banking ◽  
Sensitive Information ◽  
Banking Services ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Public Channel ◽  
Social Demographics ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Use Of Internet

Internet banking has become the preferred channel for conducting banking activities across globe and amongst all social demographics. Only a few other technological adoptions can compare with the recent trend of use of Internet banking facilities. Given the cost advantages and benefits it has to offer, it is widely touted as a win-win strategy for both banks and customers. However, with the growth in E-banking services and reliance on a public channel–Internet–to conduct business, it has been challenging for banks to ensure integrity and confidentiality of highly sensitive information. This chapter presents an overview of authentication issues and challenges in the online banking area with analysis on some of the better approaches. The chapter compares different authentication methods and discusses ensuing issues. The chapter will be invaluable for managers and professionals in understanding the current authentication landscape.

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