Leena S. Alotaibi, Sultan S. Alshamrani^*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.38, No.1, pp. 93-101, 2021, DOI:10.32604/csse.2021.015547

Abstract Smart contracts are simply self-activated contracts between two parties. The idea behind their implementation relies on the concept of blockchain, wherein the details and execution of the contract are turned into code and distributed among users of a network. This process controls counterfeiting and money laundering by its ability to trace who owes whom. It also boosts the general economy. This research paper shows how smart contracts in modern-day systems have changed the approach to money tracing. We present case studies about the uses of smart contracts with high levels of security and privacy. As a building block of smart… More >

Bijeta Seth¹, Surjeet Dalal¹, Dac-Nhuong Le^2,3,*, Vivek Jaglan⁴, Neeraj Dahiya¹, Akshat Agrawal⁵, Mayank Mohan Sharma⁶, Deo Prakash⁷, K. D. Verma⁸

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.1, pp. 779-798, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014466

Abstract Cloud computing utilizes enormous clusters of serviceable and manageable resources that can be virtually and dynamically reconfigured in order to deliver optimum resource utilization by exploiting the pay-per-use model. However, concerns around security have been an impediment in the extensive adoption of the cloud computing model. In this regard, advancements in cryptography, accelerated by the wide usage of the internet worldwide, has emerged as a key area in addressing some of these security concerns. In this document, a hybrid cryptographic protocol deploying Blowfish and Paillier encryption algorithms has been presented and its strength compared with the existing hybrid Advanced Encryption… More >

Pranati Rakshit¹, Sreeparna Ganguly¹, Souvik Pal², Ayman A. Aly³, Dac-Nhuong Le^4,5,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.1, pp. 1207-1224, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014293

Abstract With the increasing need of sensitive or secret data transmission through public network, security demands using cryptography and steganography are becoming a thirsty research area of last few years. These two techniques can be merged and provide better security which is nowadays extremely required. The proposed system provides a novel method of information security using the techniques of audio steganography combined with visual cryptography. In this system, we take a secret image and divide it into several subparts to make more than one incomprehensible sub-images using the method of visual cryptography. Each of the sub-images is then hidden within individual… More >

Yuhua Sun¹, Lili Yan^1,*, Zhibin Sun², Shibin Zhang¹, Jiazhong Lu¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.3, pp. 2385-2395, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.012696

Abstract

Private comparison is the basis of many encryption technologies, and several related Quantum Private Comparison (QPC) protocols have been published in recent years. In these existing protocols, secret information is encoded by using conjugate coding or orthogonal states, and all users are quantum participants. In this paper, a novel semi-quantum private comparison scheme is proposed, which employs Bell entangled states as quantum resources. Two semi-quantum participants compare the equivalence of their private information with the help of a semi-honest third party (TP). Compared with the previous classical protocols, these two semi-quantum users can only make some particular action, such as… More >

Srinath Doss¹, Jothi Paranthaman², Suseendran Gopalakrishnan³, Akila Duraisamy³, Souvik Pal⁴, Balaganesh Duraisamy⁵, Chung Le Van^6,*, Dac-Nhuong Le⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.2, pp. 1577-1594, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.012379

Abstract In the healthcare system, the Internet of Things (IoT) based distributed systems play a vital role in transferring the medical-related documents and information among the organizations to reduce the replication in medical tests. This datum is sensitive, and hence security is a must in transforming the sensational contents. In this paper, an Evolutionary Algorithm, namely the Memetic Algorithm is used for encrypting the text messages. The encrypted information is then inserted into the medical images using Discrete Wavelet Transform 1 level and 2 levels. The reverse method of the Memetic Algorithm is implemented when extracting a hidden message from the… More >

Poomagal C T^1,∗, Sathish kumar G A², Deval Mehta³

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.35, No.1, pp. 51-63, 2020, DOI:10.32604/csse.2020.35.051

Abstract The burgeoning network communications for multiple applications such as commercial, IoT, consumer devices, space, military, and telecommunications are facing many security and privacy challenges. Over the past decade, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been a focus of study. Security and privacy are the most important problems for IoT applications and are still facing huge difficulties. To promote this high-security IoT domain and prevent security attacks from unauthorized users, keys are frequently exchanged through a public key exchange algorithm. This paper introduces a novel algorithm based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography(ECC) for multi-level Public Key Exchange and Encryption Mechanism. It also… More >

Tian Cao¹, Yan Chang^{1, *}, Lili Yan¹, Shibin Zhang¹, Qirun Wang²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.2, pp. 1507-1517, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010213

Abstract An electronic contract is a contract signed by electronic means, which is widely used in electronic commerce activities. In recent years, with the rapid development of quantum cryptography technology, the quantum electronic contract has been widely studied by researchers. Supported by the basic principles of quantum mechanics, a quantum electronic contract scheme based on the single photon is proposed in this paper. In this scheme, two copies of the same contract are signed by both parties involved, and then a copy of each contract is sent to a trusted third party. The trusted third party verifies the signatures of both… More >

N. RajeshKumar¹, D. Yuvaraj², G. Manikandan^{3, *}, R. BalaKrishnan¹, B. Karthikeyan³, D. Narasimhan¹, N. R. Raajan⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.2, pp. 1283-1301, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011226

Abstract Visual cryptographic scheme is specially designed for secret image sharing in the form of shadow images. The basic idea of visual cryptography is to construct two or more secret shares from the original image in the form of chaotic image. In this paper, a novel secret image communication scheme based on visual cryptography and Tetrolet tiling patterns is proposed. The proposed image communication scheme will break the secret image into more shadow images based on the Tetrolet tiling patterns. The secret image is divided into 4×4 blocks of tetrominoes and employs the concept of visual cryptography to hide the secret… More >

Tao Liu, Gan Huang^*, Ping Zhang

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.24, No.3, pp. 519-529, 2018, DOI:10.31209/2018.100000019

Abstract In this article, a new user authentication protocol using trust model, elliptic curve cryptography and biometrics for WSNs is submitted. The result of the trust model analysis indicates that the model can improve the model’s ability of withstanding attacks from the malicious nodes. The results of safety analysis and performance analysis for our proposed user authentication protocol demonstrate that this protocol can be flexible to all sorts of common known attacks and performs similarly or better compared with some active user authentication protocols. It is suitable for WSNs which have a prominent request for the security and the performance. More >

Kejia Zhang^{1, 2, 3, 4}, Chunguang Ma⁵, Zhiwei Sun^{4, 6, *}, Xue Zhang^{2, 3}, Baomin Zhou², Yukun Wang⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.3, pp. 1915-1928, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.09836

Abstract Oblivious key transfer (OKT) is a fundamental problem in the field of secure multi-party computation. It makes the provider send a secret key sequence to the user obliviously, i.e., the user may only get almost one bit key in the sequence which is unknown to the provider. Recently, a number of works have sought to establish the corresponding quantum oblivious key transfer model and rename it as quantum oblivious key distribution (QOKD) from the well-known expression of quantum key distribution (QKD). In this paper, a new QOKD model is firstly proposed for the provider and user with limited quantum capabilities,… More >