The Cloud Storage Ciphertext Retrieval Scheme Based on ORAM

Due to its characteristics distribution and virtualization, cloud storage also brings new security problems. User＇s data is stored in the cloud, which separated the ownership from management. How to ensure the security of cloud data, how to increase data availability and how to improve user privacy perception are the key issues of cloud storage research, especially when the cloud service provider is not completely trusted. In this paper, a cloud storage ciphertext retrieval scheme based on AES and homomorphic encryption is presented. This ciphertext retrieval scheme will not only conceal the user retrieval information, but also prevent the cloud from obtaining user access pattern such as read-write mode, and access frequency, thereby ensuring the safety of the ciphertext retrieval and user privacy. The results of simulation analysis show that the performance of this ciphertext retrieval scheme requires less overhead than other schemes on the same security level.

Content Authentication Based on JPEG-to-JPEG Watermarking

A content authentication technique based on JPEG-to-JPEG watermarking is proposed in this paper. In this technique, each 8x8 block in a JPEG compressed image is first processed by entropy decoding, and then the quantized discrete cosine transform （DCT） is applied to generate DCT coefficients： one DC coefficient and 63 AC coefficients in frequency coefficients. The DCT AC coefficients are used to form zero planes in which the watermark is embedded by a chaotic map. In this way, the watermark information is embedded into JPEG compressed domain, and the output watermarked image is still a JPEG format. The proposed method is especially applicable to content authentication of JPEG image since the quantized coefficients are modified for embedding the watermark and the chaotic system possesses an important property with the high sensitivity on initial values. Experimental results show that the tamper regions are localized accurately when the watermarked JPEG image is maliciously tampered.

A VECTOR QUANTIZATION BASED APPROACH FOR CFA DATA COMPRESSION IN WIRELESS ENDOSCOPY CAPSULE

A novel approach for near-lossless compression of Color Filtering Array (CFA) data in wireless endoscopy capsule is proposed in this paper. The compression method is based on pre-processing and vector quantization. First, the CFA raw data are low pass filtered and rearranged during pre-processing. Then, pairs of pixels are vector quantized into macros of 9 bits by applying block par-tition and index mapping in succession. These macros are entropy compressed by Joint Photographic Experts Group-Lossless Standard (JPEG-LS) finally. The complex step of codeword searching in Vector Quantization (VQ) is avoided by a predefined partition rule, which is suitable for hardware imple-mentation. By control of the pre-processor and VQ scheme, either high quality compression under un- filtered case or high ratio compression under filtered case can be realized, with the average Peak Sig-nal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) more than 43dB and 37dB respectively. Compared with the state-of-the-art method and the previously proposed method, our compression approach outperforms in compression performance as well as in flexibility.