Fortifying Healthcare Data Security in the Cloud:A Comprehensive Examination of the EPM-KEA Encryption Protocol

A new era of data access and management has begun with the use of cloud computing in the healthcare industry.Despite the efficiency and scalability that the cloud provides, the security of private patient data is still a majorconcern. Encryption, network security, and adherence to data protection laws are key to ensuring the confidentialityand integrity of healthcare data in the cloud. The computational overhead of encryption technologies could leadto delays in data access and processing rates. To address these challenges, we introduced the Enhanced ParallelMulti-Key Encryption Algorithm (EPM-KEA), aiming to bolster healthcare data security and facilitate the securestorage of critical patient records in the cloud. The data was gathered from two categories Authorization forHospital Admission (AIH) and Authorization for High Complexity Operations.We use Z-score normalization forpreprocessing. The primary goal of implementing encryption techniques is to secure and store massive amountsof data on the cloud. It is feasible that cloud storage alternatives for protecting healthcare data will become morewidely available if security issues can be successfully fixed. As a result of our analysis using specific parametersincluding Execution time (42%), Encryption time (45%), Decryption time (40%), Security level (97%), and Energyconsumption (53%), the system demonstrated favorable performance when compared to the traditional method.This suggests that by addressing these security concerns, there is the potential for broader accessibility to cloudstorage solutions for safeguarding healthcare data.

Lossless embedding: A visually meaningful image encryption algorithm based on hyperchaos and compressive sensing

A novel visually meaningful image encryption algorithm is proposed based on a hyperchaotic system and compressive sensing(CS), which aims to improve the visual security of steganographic image and decrypted quality. First, a dynamic spiral block scrambling is designed to encrypt the sparse matrix generated by performing discrete wavelet transform(DWT)on the plain image. Then, the encrypted image is compressed and quantified to obtain the noise-like cipher image. Then the cipher image is embedded into the alpha channel of the carrier image in portable network graphics(PNG) format to generate the visually meaningful steganographic image. In our scheme, the hyperchaotic Lorenz system controlled by the hash value of plain image is utilized to construct the scrambling matrix, the measurement matrix and the embedding matrix to achieve higher security. In addition, compared with other existing encryption algorithms, the proposed PNG-based embedding method can blindly extract the cipher image, thus effectively reducing the transmission cost and storage space. Finally, the experimental results indicate that the proposed encryption algorithm has very high visual security.

An Image Encryption Algorithm Based on BP Neural Network and Hyperchaotic System

To reduce the bandwidth and storage resources of image information in communication transmission, and improve the secure communication of information. In this paper, an image compression and encryption algorithm based on fractional-order memristive hyperchaotic system and BP neural network is proposed. In this algorithm, the image pixel values are compressed by BP neural network, the chaotic sequences of the fractional-order memristive hyperchaotic system are used to diffuse the pixel values. The experimental simulation results indicate that the proposed algorithm not only can effectively compress and encrypt image, but also have better security features. Therefore, this work provides theoretical guidance and experimental basis for the safe transmission and storage of image information in practical communication.

A realizable quantum encryption algorithm for qubits

A realizable quantum encryption algorithm for qubits is presented by employing bit-wise quantum computation. System extension and bit-swapping are introduced into the encryption process, which makes the ciphertext space expanded greatly. The security of the proposed algorithm is analysed in detail and the schematic physical implementation is also provided. It is shown that the algorithm, which can prevent quantum attack strategy as well as classical attack strategy, is effective to protect qubits. Finally, we extend our algorithm to encrypt classical binary bits and quantum entanglements.

A self-cited pixel summation based image encryption algorithm

In this paper, a novel image encryption algorithm is presented based on self-cited pixel summation. With the classical mechanism of permutation plus diffusion, a pixel summation of the plain image is employed to make a gravity influence on the pixel positions in the permutation stage. Then, for each pixel in every step of the diffusion stage, the pixel summation calculated from the permuted image is updated. The values from a chaotic sequence generated by an intertwining logistic map are selected by this summation. Consequently, the keystreams generated in both stages are dependent on both the plain image and the permuted image. Because of the sensitivity of the chaotic map to its initial conditions and the plain-imagedependent keystreams, any tiny change in the secret key or the plain image would lead to a significantly different cipher image. As a result, the proposed encryption algorithm is immune to the known plaintext attack（KPA） and the chosen plaintext attack（CPA）. Moreover, experimental simulations and security analyses show that the proposed permutationdiffusion encryption scheme can achieve a satisfactory level of security.

Dynamically Reconfigurable Encryption System of the AES

Reconfigurable computing has grown to become an important and large field of research, it offers advantages over traditional hardware and software implementations of computational algorithms. The Advanced Encryption Standard （AES） algorithm is widely applied in government department and commerce. This paper analyzed the AES algorithms with different cipher keys, adopted a novel key scheduler that generated the round key real-time, proposed a dynamically reconfigurable encryption system which supported the AES algorithm with different cipher keys, and designed the architecture of the reconfigurable system. The dynamically reconfigurable AES system had been realized on FPGA. The result proves that the reconfigurable AES system is flexible, lower cost and high security level.

Internet-Oriented Optimization Schemes for Joint Compression and Encryption

Compression and encryption are widely used in network traffic in order to improve efficiency and security of some systems.We propose a scheme to concatenate both functions and run them in a paralle pipelined fashion,demonstrating both a hardware and a software implementation.With minor modifications to the hardware accelerators,latency can be reduced to half.Furthermore,we also propose a seminal and more efficient scheme,where we integrate the technology of encryption into the compression algorithm.Our new integrated optimization scheme reaches an increase of 1.6X by using parallel software scheme However,the security level of our new scheme is not desirable compare with previous ones.Fortunately,we prove that this does not affect the application of our schemes.

Reconfigurable implementation of AES algorithm IP core based on pipeline structure

In order to improve the data throughput of the advanced encryption standard （AES） IP core while reducing the hardware resource consumption and finally achieving a tradeoff between speed and area, a mixed pipeline architecture and reconfigurable technology for the design and implementation of the AES IP core is proposed. The encryption and decryption processes of the AES algorithm are achieved in the same process within the mixed pipeline structure. According to the finite field characterizations, the Sbox in the AES algorithm is optimized. ShiftRow and MixColumn, which are the main components in AES round transformation, are optimized with the reconfigurable technology. The design is implemented on the Xilinx Virtex2p xc2vp20-7 field programmable gate array （FPGA） device. It can achieve a data throughput above 2.58 Gbit/s, and it only requires 3 233 slices. Compared with other related designs of AES IP cores on the same device, the proposed design can achieve a tradeoff between speed and area, and obtain satisfactory results in both data throughput and hardware resource consumption.

Preventing“Bad”Content Dispersal in Named Data Networking

Named Data Networking(NDN)improves the data delivery efficiency by caching contents in routers. To prevent corrupted and faked contents be spread in the network,NDN routers should verify the digital signature of each published content. Since the verification scheme in NDN applies the asymmetric encryption algorithm to sign contents,the content verification overhead is too high to satisfy wire-speed packet forwarding. In this paper, we propose two schemes to improve the verification performance of NDN routers to prevent content poisoning. The first content verification scheme, called "user-assisted",leads to the best performance, but can be bypassed if the clients and the content producer collude. A second scheme, named ``RouterCooperation ‘', prevents the aforementioned collusion attack by making edge routers verify the contents independently without the assistance of users and the core routers no longer verify the contents. The Router-Cooperation verification scheme reduces the computing complexity of cryptographic operation by replacing the asymmetric encryption algorithm with symmetric encryption algorithm.The simulation results demonstrate that this Router-Cooperation scheme can speed up18.85 times of the original content verification scheme with merely extra 80 Bytes transmission overhead.

Security Analysis and Enhanced Design of a Dynamic Block Cipher

There are a lot of security issues in block cipher algorithm.Security analysis and enhanced design of a dynamic block cipher was proposed.Firstly,the safety of ciphertext was enhanced based on confusion substitution of S-box,thus disordering the internal structure of data blocks by four steps of matrix transformation.Then,the diffusivity of ciphertext was obtained by cyclic displacement of bytes using column ambiguity function.The dynamic key was finally generated by using LFSR,which improved the stochastic characters of secret key in each of round of iteration.The safety performance of proposed algorithm was analyzed by simulation test.The results showed the proposed algorithm has a little effect on the speed of encryption and decryption while enhancing the security.Meanwhile,the proposed algorithm has highly scalability,the dimension of S-box and the number of register can be dynamically extended according to the security requirement.

Meaningful image encryption algorithm based on compressive sensing and integer wavelet transform

A new meaningful image encryption algorithm based on compressive sensing(CS)and integer wavelet transformation(IWT)is proposed in this study.First of all,the initial values of chaotic system are encrypted by RSA algorithm,and then they are open as public keys.To make the chaotic sequence more random,a mathematical model is constructed to improve the random performance.Then,the plain image is compressed and encrypted to obtain the secret image.Secondly,the secret image is inserted with numbers zero to extend its size same to the plain image.After applying IWT to the carrier image and discrete wavelet transformation(DWT)to the inserted image,the secret image is embedded into the carrier image.Finally,a meaningful carrier image embedded with secret plain image can be obtained by inverse IWT.Here,the measurement matrix is built by both chaotic system and Hadamard matrix,which not only retains the characteristics of Hadamard matrix,but also has the property of control and synchronization of chaotic system.Especially,information entropy of the plain image is employed to produce the initial conditions of chaotic system.As a result,the proposed algorithm can resist known-plaintext attack(KPA)and chosen-plaintext attack(CPA).By the help of asymmetric cipher algorithm RSA,no extra transmission is needed in the communication.Experimental simulations show that the normalized correlation(NC)values between the host image and the cipher image are high.That is to say,the proposed encryption algorithm is imperceptible and has good hiding effect.

An Analysis of International Data Encryption Algorithm(IDEA) Security against Differential Cryptanalysis

The security of international date encryption algorithm （IDEA（16））, a mini IDEA cipher, against differential cryptanalysis is investigated. The results show that [DEA（16） is secure against differential cryptanalysis attack after 5 rounds while IDEA（8） needs 7 rounds for the same level of security. The transition matrix for IDEA（16） and its eigenvalue of second largest magnitude are computed. The storage method for the transition matrix has been optimized to speed up file I/O. The emphasis of the work lies in finding out an effective way of computing the eigenvalue of the matrix. To lower time complexity, three mature algorithms in finding eigenvalues are compared from one another and subspace iteration algorithm is employed to compute the eigenvalue of second largest module, with a precision of 0.001.

Image Encryption Application of Chaotic Sequences Incorporating Quantum Keys

This paper proposes an image encryption algorithm LQBPNN（logistic quantum and back propagation neural network）based on chaotic sequences incorporating quantum keys. Firstly, the improved one-dimensional logistic chaotic sequence is used as the basic key sequence. After the quantum key is introduced, the quantum key is incorporated into the chaotic sequence by nonlinear operation. Then the pixel confused process is completed by the neural network. Finally, two sets of different mixed secret key sequences are used to perform two rounds of diffusion encryption on the confusing image. The experimental results show that the randomness and uniformity of the key sequence are effectively enhanced. The algorithm has a secret key space greater than 2182. The adjacent pixel correlation of the encrypted image is close to 0, and the information entropy is close to 8. The ciphertext image can resist several common attacks such as typical attacks, statistical analysis attacks and differential attacks.

CRH Public Encryption - the Study on High Intensity Data Encryption Algorithm

Encrypted Communication technique is an important measure to the information safety. Based on the advantages of two public encryption algorithm RSA & DES, a novel high intensity public encryption algorithm Chaos Random High Intensity (CHR) is proposed in this paper. The principle of CRH is described and analyzed in detail, and the results of computer simulation has proved its effectiveness and correctness.

Research on medical data storage and sharing model based on blockchain

With the process of medical informatization,medical diagnosis results are recorded and shared in the form of electronic data in the computer.However,the security of medical data storage cannot be effectively protected and the unsafe sharing of medical data among different institutions is still a hidden danger that cannot be underestimated.To solve the above problems,a secure storage and sharing model of private data based on blockchain technology and homomorphic encryption is constructed.Based on the idea of blockchain decentralization,the model maintains a reliable medical alliance chain system to ensure the safe transmission of data between different institutions;A privacy data encryption and computing protocol based on homomorphic encryption is constructed to ensure the safe transmission of medical data;Using its complete anonymity to ensure the Blockchain of medical data and patient identity privacy;A strict transaction control management mechanism of medical data based on Intelligent contract automatic execution of preset instructions is proposed.After security verification,compared with the traditional medical big data storage and sharing mode,the model has better security and sharing.

A New Compression Scheme for Secure Transmission

Encryption techniques ensure security of data during transmission. However, in most cases, this increases the length of the data, thus it increases the cost. When it is desired to transmit data over an insecure and bandwidth-constrained channel, it is customary to compress the data first and then encrypt it. In this paper, a novel algorithm, the new compression with encryption and compression （CEC）, is proposed to secure and compress the data. This algorithm compresses the data to reduce its length. The compressed data is encrypted and then further compressed using a new encryption algorithm without compromising the compression efficiency and the information security. This CEC algorithm provides a higher compression ratio and enhanced data security. The CEC provides more confidentiality and authentication between two communication systems.