M. Antony Joans Kumar^1,*, C. Christopher Columbus², E. Ben George³, T. Ajith Bosco Raj⁴

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.2, pp. 1735-1747, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.025906

Abstract The sensitive data stored in the public cloud by privileged users, such as corporate companies and government agencies are highly vulnerable in the hands of cloud providers and hackers. The proposed Virtual Cloud Storage Architecture is primarily concerned with data integrity and confidentiality, as well as availability. To provide confidentiality and availability, the file to be stored in cloud storage should be encrypted using an auto-generated key and then encoded into distinct chunks. Hashing the encoded chunks ensured the file integrity, and a newly proposed Circular Shift Chunk Allocation technique was used to determine the order of chunk storage. The… More >

B. Murugeshwari^1,*, D. Selvaraj², K. Sudharson³, S. Radhika⁴

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.35, No.1, pp. 839-851, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.028548

Abstract Protecting the privacy of data in the multi-cloud is a crucial task. Data mining is a technique that protects the privacy of individual data while mining those data. The most significant task entails obtaining data from numerous remote databases. Mining algorithms can obtain sensitive information once the data is in the data warehouse. Many traditional algorithms/techniques promise to provide safe data transfer, storing, and retrieving over the cloud platform. These strategies are primarily concerned with protecting the privacy of user data. This study aims to present data mining with privacy protection (DMPP) using precise elliptic curve cryptography (PECC), which builds… More >

S. Sakthivel¹, V. Vivekanandhan^2,*, M. Manikandan²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.35, No.1, pp. 853-866, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.026289

Abstract Irrigation plays a significant role in various agricultural cropping methods deployed in semiarid and arid regions where valuable water applications and managing are considered crucial concerns. Multiple factors such as weather, soil, water, and crop data need to be considered for irrigation maintenance in an efficient besides uniform manner from multifaceted and different information-based systems. A Multi-Agent System (MAS) has been proposed recently based on diverse agent subsystems with definite objectives for attaining global MAS objective and is deployed on Cloud Computing paradigm capable of gathering information from Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) positioned in rice, cotton, cassava crops for knowledge… More >

G. Ravikumar¹, K. Venkatachalam², Mohammed A. AlZain³, Mehedi Masud⁴, Mohamed Abouhawwash^5,6,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.1, pp. 945-959, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.024605

Abstract Sleep apnea syndrome (SAS) is a breathing disorder while a person is asleep. The traditional method for examining SAS is Polysomnography (PSG). The standard procedure of PSG requires complete overnight observation in a laboratory. PSG typically provides accurate results, but it is expensive and time consuming. However, for people with Sleep apnea (SA), available beds and laboratories are limited. Resultantly, it may produce inaccurate diagnosis. Thus, this paper proposes the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) framework with a machine learning concept of fully connected neural network (FCNN) with k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) classifier. This paper describes smart monitoring of a patient’s… More >

Kavitha Chinniyan^*, Thamil Vani Samiyappan, Aishvarya Gopu, Narmatha Ramasamy

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.34, No.3, pp. 1877-1891, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.027274

Abstract Steganography is the technique of hiding secret data within ordinary data by modifying pixel values which appear normal to a casual observer. Steganography which is similar to cryptography helps in secret communication. The cryptography method focuses on the authenticity and integrity of the messages by hiding the contents of the messages. Sometimes, it is not only just enough to encrypt the message but also essential to hide the existence of the message itself. As this avoids misuse of data, this kind of encryption is less suspicious and does not catch attention. To achieve this, Stacked Autoencoder model is developed which… More >

K. Sudharson^1,*, S. Arun²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.34, No.3, pp. 1769-1784, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.026483

Abstract Quantum Computing (QC). The content of node or sink nodes is processed using the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics. However, cryptography techniques face several other issues, such as availability, integrity, and vulnerability, to name a few. The researchers have overcome many obstacles, yet security remains a crucial concern in QC. However, experimenters recently discovered that the QC has a lot more data hacking than static networks. Moreover, the bitwise error is still present in implementing the Quantum Computing Cryptography Protocol (QCCP). Because all nodes are mobile and dynamic topology occurs, the proposed research uses the Quantum Elliptical Curve Cryptography (QECC)… More >

Muhammad Islam Kamran¹, Muazzam A. Khan¹, Suliman A. Alsuhibany², Yazeed Yasin Ghadi³, Arshad⁴, Jameel Arif¹, Jawad Ahmad^5,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 657-672, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.028876

Abstract The use of multimedia data sharing has drastically increased in the past few decades due to the revolutionary improvements in communication technologies such as the 4th generation (4G) and 5th generation (5G) etc. Researchers have proposed many image encryption algorithms based on the classical random walk and chaos theory for sharing an image in a secure way. Instead of the classical random walk, this paper proposes the quantum walk to achieve high image security. Classical random walk exhibits randomness due to the stochastic transitions between states, on the other hand, the quantum walk is more random and achieve randomness due… More >

Sikandar Zulqarnain Khan^1,*, Sajjad Shaukat Jamal², Asher Sajid³, Muhammad Rashid⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 1879-1894, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.028152

Abstract This paper presents an efficient crypto processor architecture for key agreement using ECDH (Elliptic-curve Diffie Hellman) protocol over . The composition of our key-agreement architecture is expressed in consisting of the following: (i) Elliptic-curve Point Multiplication architecture for public key generation (DESIGN-I) and (ii) integration of DESIGN-I with two additional routing multiplexers and a controller for shared key generation (DESIGN-II). The arithmetic operators used in DESIGN-I and DESIGN-II contain an adder, squarer, a multiplier and inversion. A simple shift and add multiplication method is employed to retain lower hardware resources. Moreover, an essential inversion operation is operated using the Itoh-Tsujii… More >

Hussein Abulkasim^1,*, Eatedal Alabdulkreem², Safwat Hamad³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 225-232, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.025727

Abstract Quantum key agreement is a promising key establishing protocol that can play a significant role in securing 5G/6G communication networks. Recently, Liu et al. (Quantum Information Processing 18(8):1-10, 2019) proposed a multi-party quantum key agreement protocol based on four-qubit cluster states was proposed. The aim of their protocol is to agree on a shared secret key among multiple remote participants. Liu et al. employed four-qubit cluster states to be the quantum resources and the X operation to securely share a secret key. In addition, Liu et al.'s protocol guarantees that each participant makes an equal contribution to the final key.… More >

Gang Xu¹, Yibo Cao¹, Shiyuan Xu¹, Xin Liu^2,*, Xiu-Bo Chen³, Yiying Yu¹, Xiaojun Wang⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 5429-5441, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.028562

Abstract With the increasing popularity of cloud storage, data security on the cloud has become increasingly visible. Searchable encryption has the ability to realize the privacy protection and security of data in the cloud. However, with the continuous development of quantum computing, the standard Public-key Encryption with Keyword Search (PEKS) scheme cannot resist quantum-based keyword guessing attacks. Further, the credibility of the server also poses a significant threat to the security of the retrieval process. This paper proposes a searchable encryption scheme based on lattice cryptography using blockchain to address the above problems. Firstly, we design a lattice-based encryption primitive to… More >