Muqadar Ali, Chungen Xu^*, Abid Hussain

Journal of New Media, Vol.2, No.1, pp. 31-43, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jnm.2020.09946 - 14 August 2020

Abstract Attribute-based encryption is cryptographic techniques that provide flexible data access control to encrypted data content in cloud storage. Each trusted authority needs proper management and distribution of secret keys to the user’s to only authorized user’s attributes. However existing schemes cannot be applied multiple authority that supports only a single keywords search compare to multi keywords search high computational burden or inefficient attribute’s revocation. In this paper, a ciphertext policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE) scheme has been proposed which focuses on multi-keyword search and attribute revocation by new policy updating feathers under multiple authorities and central More >

Leqi Jiang^{1, 2}, Zhangjie Fu^{1, 2, *}

Journal of Cyber Security, Vol.2, No.1, pp. 49-61, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jcs.2020.09308

Abstract Genetic Algorithm (GA) has been widely used to solve various optimization problems. As the solving process of GA requires large storage and computing resources, it is well motivated to outsource the solving process of GA to the cloud server. However, the algorithm user would never want his data to be disclosed to cloud server. Thus, it is necessary for the user to encrypt the data before transmitting them to the server. But the user will encounter a new problem. The arithmetic operations we are familiar with cannot work directly in the ciphertext domain. In this More >

Lei Li¹, Chungen Xu^{1, *}, Xiaoling Yu¹, Bennian Dou¹, Cong Zuo²

Journal of Cyber Security, Vol.2, No.1, pp. 9-23, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jcs.2020.06313

Abstract Searchable encryption technology makes it convenient to search encrypted data with keywords for people. A data owner shared his data with other users on the cloud server. For security, it is necessary for him to build a fine-grained and flexible access control mechanism. The main idea of this paper is to let the owner classify his data and then authorizes others according to categories. The cloud server maintains a permission matrix, which will be used to verify whether a trapdoor is valid or not. In this way we can achieve access control and narrow the More >

Yepeng Liu^{1, 2}, Yongjun Ren^{1, 2, *}, Qirun Wang³, Jinyue Xia⁴

Journal of Cyber Security, Vol.2, No.1, pp. 1-8, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jcs.2020.05878

Abstract With the diversification of electronic devices, cloud-based services have become the link between different devices. As a cryptosystem with secure conversion function, proxy re-encryption enables secure sharing of data in a cloud environment. Proxy re-encryption is a public key encryption system with ciphertext security conversion function. A semi-trusted agent plays the role of ciphertext conversion, which can convert the user ciphertext into the same plaintext encrypted by the principal’s public key. Proxy re-encryption has been a hotspot in the field of information security since it was proposed by Blaze et al. [Blaze, Bleumer and Strauss More >

Xiaoling Yu¹, Chungen Xu^{1, *}, Lei Xu¹, Yuntao Wang²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.2, pp. 1107-1125, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.09680 - 10 June 2020

Abstract To save the local storage, users store the data on the cloud server who offers convenient internet services. To guarantee the data privacy, users encrypt the data before uploading them into the cloud server. Since encryption can reduce the data availability, public-key encryption with keyword search (PEKS) is developed to achieve the retrieval of the encrypted data without decrypting them. However, most PEKS schemes cannot resist quantum computing attack, because the corresponding hardness assumptions are some number theory problems that can be solved efficiently under quantum computers. Besides, the traditional PEKS schemes have an inherent… More >

Changji Wang^{1, *}, Yuan Yuan²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.63, No.2, pp. 1031-1041, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.06278 - 01 May 2020

Abstract Ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE) is a promising cryptographic solution to the problem for enforcing fine-grained access control over encrypted data in the cloud. However, when applying CP-ABE to data outsourcing scenarios, we have to address the challenging issue of policy updates because access control elements, such as users, attributes, and access rules may change frequently. In this paper, we propose a notion of access policy updatable ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption (APU-CP-ABE) by combining the idea of ciphertext-policy attribute-based key encapsulation and symmetric proxy re-encryption. When an access policy update occurs, data owner is no longer required… More >

Chunpeng Ge^{1, *}, Jinyue Xia², Liming Fang¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.63, No.2, pp. 633-647, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.06217 - 01 May 2020

Abstract An identity-based proxy re-encryption scheme (IB-PRE) allows a semi-trusted proxy to convert an encryption under one identity to another without revealing the underlying message. Due to the fact that the proxy was semi-trusted, it should place as little trust as necessary to allow it to perform the translations. In some applications such as distributed file system, it demands the adversary cannot identify the sender and recipient’s identities. However, none of the exiting IB-PRE schemes satisfy this requirement. In this work, we first define the security model of key-private IB-PRE. Finally, we propose the first key-private More >

Jiaohua Qin¹, Yusi Cao¹, Xuyu Xiang^{1, *}, Yun Tan¹, Lingyun Xiang², Jianjun Zhang³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.63, No.1, pp. 389-399, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.07819 - 30 March 2020

Abstract With the massive growth of images data and the rise of cloud computing that can provide cheap storage space and convenient access, more and more users store data in cloud server. However, how to quickly query the expected data with privacy-preserving is still a challenging in the encryption image data retrieval. Towards this goal, this paper proposes a ciphertext image retrieval method based on SimHash in cloud computing. Firstly, we extract local feature of images, and then cluster the features by K-means. Based on it, the visual word codebook is introduced to represent feature information More >

Omid Mahdi Ebadati E.^{1, *}, Farshad Eshghi², Amin Zamani¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.122, No.1, pp. 323-349, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2020.08079 - 01 January 2020

Abstract Transmission pipelines are vulnerable to various accidents and acts of vandalism. Therefore, a reliable monitoring system is needed to secure the transmission pipelines. A wireless sensor network is a wireless network consisting of distributed devices distributed at various distances, which monitors the physical and environmental conditions using sensors. Wireless sensor networks have many uses, including the built-in sensor on the outside of the pipeline or installed to support bridge structures, robotics, healthcare, environmental monitoring, etc. Wireless Sensor networks could be used to monitor the temperature, pressure, leak detection and sabotage of transmission lines. Wireless sensor… More >

Resul Das^1,∗, Muhammet Baykara¹, Gurkan Tuna²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.34, No.1, pp. 23-32, 2019, DOI:10.32604/csse.2019.34.023

Abstract One of the most well-known and used algorithms for Steganography is Least Significant Bit (LSB) substitution. Although LSB has several advantages such as simplicity, efficiency, and easy-to-do implementation, it has some distinct disadvantages such as it openness to miscellaneous attacks. In this study, we aim to improve the traditional LSB algorithm by eliminating its main disadvantage, being easy to detect, and this way propose an enhanced LSB algorithm called E-LSB. We mainly aim to minimize differences which are due to encryption and image hiding steps in LSB algorithm and make it more difficult to notice… More >