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Chaos-Based Cryptographic Mechanism for Smart Healthcare IoT Systems

Muhammad Samiullah1, Waqar Aslam1, Arif Mehmood1, Muhammad Saeed Ahmad2, Shafiq Ahmad3, Adel M. Al-Shayea3, Muhammad Shafiq4,*

1 Department of Computer Science & IT, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, 63100, Pakistan
2 Department of Computer Science & IT, Government Sadiq College Women University, Bahawalpur, Pakistan
3 Industrial Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud University, P.O. Box 800, Riyadh, 11421, Saudi Arabia
4 Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, 38541, Korea

* Corresponding Author: Muhammad Shafiq. Email: email

Computers, Materials & Continua 2022, 71(1), 753-769. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2022.020432

Abstract

Smart and interconnected devices can generate meaningful patient data and exchange it automatically without any human intervention in order to realize the Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare (HIoT). Due to more and more online security and data hijacking attacks, the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data are considered serious issues in HIoT applications. In this regard, lightweight block ciphers (LBCs) are promising in resource-constrained environment where security is the primary consideration. The prevalent challenge while designing an LBC for the HIoT environment is how to ascertain platform performance, cost, and security. Most of the existing LBCs primarily focus on text data or grayscale images. The main focus of this paper is about securing color images in a cost-effective way. We emphasis high confidentiality of color images captured by cameras in resource-constrained smartphones, and high confidentiality of sensitive images transmitted by low-power sensors in IoT systems. In order to reduce computational complexity and simulation time, the proposed Lightweight Symmetric Block Cipher (LSBC) exploits chaos-based confusion-diffusion operations at the inter-block level using a single round. The strength of LSBC is assessed by cryptanalysis, while it is ranked by comparing it to other privacy-preserving schemes. Our results show that the proposed cipher produces promising results in terms of key sensitivity and differential attacks, which proves that our LSBC is a good candidate for image security in HIoT.

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Samiullah, M., Aslam, W., Mehmood, A., Ahmad, M.S., Ahmad, S. et al. (2022). Chaos-based cryptographic mechanism for smart healthcare iot systems. Computers, Materials & Continua, 71(1), 753-769. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2022.020432
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Samiullah M, Aslam W, Mehmood A, Ahmad MS, Ahmad S, Al-Shayea AM, et al. Chaos-based cryptographic mechanism for smart healthcare iot systems. Comput Mater Contin. 2022;71(1):753-769 https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2022.020432
IEEE Style
M. Samiullah et al., “Chaos-Based Cryptographic Mechanism for Smart Healthcare IoT Systems,” Comput. Mater. Contin., vol. 71, no. 1, pp. 753-769, 2022. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2022.020432



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