Aleksandar Kelec^∗, Zoran Djuric^†

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.35, No.4, pp. 271-282, 2020, DOI:10.32604/csse.2020.35.271

Abstract One of the constant challenges faced by the Android community, when it comes to the safety of the end users, is the ability of applications to load code dynamically. This mechanism may be used for both legitimate and malicious purposes. A particular problem is the fact that remote code is not analyzed during the verification process because it doesn’t have to be present in the application package at the publishing time. Previous research has shown that using this concept in an insecure way can cause serious consequences for the user and his device. Solving this problem has proved to be… More >

Jing Chen^∗,Yuchen Luo^2,†, Ruiqi Du^3,‡

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.35, No.3, pp. 199-206, 2020, DOI:10.32604/csse.2020.35.199

Abstract In the age of big data, the issue of online privacy has attracted much attention from all sectors. The introduction and establishment of an evaluation system for the privacy agreement based on a third party, together with the establishment of a safer internet transaction environment, can help to establish mutual trust between users and the platform. With the research background links to the online trading platform, this article investigates how the privacy seal which is provided by the third-party evaluation organization influences and addresses trust-awareness and privacy concerns of users, as well as exposing information and purchasing data. According to… More >

Weilie Liu, Jialing He, Meng Li, Rui Jin, Jingjing Hu, Zijian Zhang

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.25, No.3, pp. 585-593, 2019, DOI:10.31209/2019.100000113

Abstract Smart energy disaggregation is receiving increasing attention because it can be used to save energy and mine consumer's electricity privacy by decomposing aggregated meter readings. Many smart energy disaggregation schemes have been proposed; however, the accuracy and efficiency of these methods need to be improved. In this work, we consider a supervised energy disaggregation method which initially learns the power consumption of each appliance and then disaggregates meter readings using the previous learning result. In this study, we improved the fast search and find of density peaks clustering algorithm to cluster appliance power signals twice to learn appliance feature matrices.… More >

Wenbo Shi¹, Jiaqi Wang², Jinxiu Zhu³, YuPeng Wang⁴, Dongmin Choi⁵

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.25, No.1, pp. 171-181, 2019, DOI:10.31209/2018.100000053

Abstract With the further development of Internet, the decision-making ability of the smart service is getting stronger and stronger, and the electronic auction is paid attention to as one of the ways of decision system. In this paper, a secure multi-attribute reverse auction protocol without the trusted third party is proposed. It uses the Paillier public key cryptosystem with homomorphism and combines with oblivious transfer and anonymization techniques. A single auction server easily collides with a bidder, in order to solve this problem, a single auction server is replaced with multiple auction servers. The proposed scheme uses multiple auction servers to… More >

Ilsun You, Chang Choi, Vishal Sharma, Isaac Woungang, Bharat K. Bhargava

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.25, No.1, pp. 117-119, 2019, DOI:10.31209/2018.100000048

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Jun Li^{1, 2}, Jieren Cheng^{2, *}, Naixue Xiong³, Lougao Zhan⁴, Yuan Zhang¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 723-741, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011272

Abstract Security and privacy issues have become a rapidly growing problem with the fast development of big data in public health. However, big data faces many ongoing serious challenges in the process of collection, storage, and use. Among them, data security and privacy problems have attracted extensive interest. In an effort to overcome this challenge, this article aims to present a distributed privacy preservation approach based on smart contracts and Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX). First of all, we define SGX as a trusted edge computing node, design data access module, data protection module, and data integrity check module, to achieve… More >

Haijiang Liu¹, Lianwei Cui², Xuebin Ma^{1, *}, Celimuge Wu³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 369-385, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010987

Abstract Frequent itemset mining is an essential problem in data mining and plays a key role in many data mining applications. However, users’ personal privacy will be leaked in the mining process. In recent years, application of local differential privacy protection models to mine frequent itemsets is a relatively reliable and secure protection method. Local differential privacy means that users first perturb the original data and then send these data to the aggregator, preventing the aggregator from revealing the user’s private information. We propose a novel framework that implements frequent itemset mining under local differential privacy and is applicable to user’s… More >

Bao Le Nguyen¹, E. Laxmi Lydia², Mohamed Elhoseny³, Irina V. Pustokhina⁴, Denis A. Pustokhin⁵, Mahmoud Mohamed Selim⁶, Gia Nhu Nguyen^{7, 8}, K. Shankar^{9, *}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 87-107, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011599

Abstract In present digital era, an exponential increase in Internet of Things (IoT) devices poses several design issues for business concerning security and privacy. Earlier studies indicate that the blockchain technology is found to be a significant solution to resolve the challenges of data security exist in IoT. In this view, this paper presents a new privacy-preserving Secure Ant Colony optimization with Multi Kernel Support Vector Machine (ACOMKSVM) with Elliptical Curve cryptosystem (ECC) for secure and reliable IoT data sharing. This program uses blockchain to ensure protection and integrity of some data while it has the technology to create secure ACOMKSVM… 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 >

Yun Tan¹, Jiaohua Qin^{1, *}, Hao Tang², Xuyu Xiang¹, Ling Tan², Neal N. Xiong³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.3, pp. 1797-1817, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010802

Abstract With the development of the internet of medical things (IoMT), the privacy protection problem has become more and more critical. In this paper, we propose a privacy protection scheme for medical images based on DenseNet and coverless steganography. For a given group of medical images of one patient, DenseNet is used to regroup the images based on feature similarity comparison. Then the mapping indexes can be constructed based on LBP feature and hash generation. After mapping the privacy information with the hash sequences, the corresponding mapped indexes of secret information will be packed together with the medical images group and… More >