Jin Wang¹, Ying Liu¹, Shuying Rao¹, R. Simon Sherratt², Jinbin Hu^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.2, pp. 3849-3865, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.037150

Abstract Data security and user privacy have become crucial elements in multi-tenant data centers. Various traffic types in the multi-tenant data center in the cloud environment have their characteristics and requirements. In the data center network (DCN), short and long flows are sensitive to low latency and high throughput, respectively. The traditional security processing approaches, however, neglect these characteristics and requirements. This paper proposes a fine-grained security enhancement mechanism (SEM) to solve the problem of heterogeneous traffic and reduce the traffic completion time (FCT) of short flows while ensuring the security of multi-tenant traffic transmission. Specifically, for short flows in DCN,… More >

T. Haritha, A. Anitha^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.2, pp. 3923-3939, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.036278

Abstract In crowded cities, searching for the availability of parking lots is a herculean task as it results in the wastage of drivers’ time, increases air pollution, and traffic congestion. Smart parking systems facilitate the drivers to determine the information about the parking lot in real time and book them depending on the requirement. But the existing smart parking systems necessitate the drivers to reveal their sensitive information that includes their mobile number, personal identity, and desired destination. This disclosure of sensitive information makes the existing centralized smart parking systems more vulnerable to service providers’ security breaches, single points of failure,… More >

Khaled M. Suwais^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.2, pp. 2685-2704, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.036161

Abstract Data encryption is essential in securing exchanged data between connected parties. Encryption is the process of transforming readable text into scrambled, unreadable text using secure keys. Stream ciphers are one type of an encryption algorithm that relies on only one key for decryption and as well as encryption. Many existing encryption algorithms are developed based on either a mathematical foundation or on other biological, social or physical behaviours. One technique is to utilise the behavioural aspects of game theory in a stream cipher. In this paper, we introduce an enhanced Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)-coded stream cipher based on an iterated n-player… More >

Ghofran Kh. Shraida¹, Hameed A. Younis¹, Taief Alaa Al-Amiedy², Mohammed Anbar^2,*, Hussain A. Younis^3,4, Iznan H. Hasbullah²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.2, pp. 2641-2654, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.035793

Abstract Nowadays, high-resolution images pose several challenges in the context of image encryption. The encryption of huge images’ file sizes requires high computational resources. Traditional encryption techniques like, Data Encryption Standard (DES), and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) are not only inefficient, but also less secure. Due to characteristics of chaos theory, such as periodicity, sensitivity to initial conditions and control parameters, and unpredictability. Hence, the characteristics of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), such as vast parallelism and large storage capacity, make it a promising field. This paper presents an efficient color image encryption method utilizing DNA encoding with two types of hyper-chaotic maps.… More >

Ali Arshad^1,*, Muhammad Nadeem², Saman Riaz¹, Syeda Wajiha Zahra², Ashit Kumar Dutta³, Zaid Alzaid⁴, Rana Alabdan⁵, Badr Almutairi⁶, Sultan Almotairi^4,7

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.2, pp. 3065-3089, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.035695

Abstract There are many cloud data security techniques and algorithms available that can be used to detect attacks on cloud data, but these techniques and algorithms cannot be used to protect data from an attacker. Cloud cryptography is the best way to transmit data in a secure and reliable format. Various researchers have developed various mechanisms to transfer data securely, which can convert data from readable to unreadable, but these algorithms are not sufficient to provide complete data security. Each algorithm has some data security issues. If some effective data protection techniques are used, the attacker will not be able to… More >

Caihui Lan¹, Haifeng Li^2,3,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.136, No.3, pp. 2985-3010, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.026321

Abstract Sharing of personal health records (PHR) in cloud computing is an essential functionality in the healthcare system. However, how to securely, efficiently and flexibly share PHRs data of the patient in a multi-receiver setting has not been well addressed. For instance, since the trust domain of the cloud server is not identical to the data owner or data user, the semi-trust cloud service provider may intentionally destroy or tamper shared PHRs data of user or only transform partial ciphertext of the shared PHRs or even return wrong computation results to save its storage and computation resource, to pursue maximum economic… More >

Mohammed S. Alshehri¹, Sultan Almakdi^1,*, Mimonah Al Qathrady², Jawad Ahmad³

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.2, pp. 2401-2414, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.036152

Abstract Chaos-based cryptosystems are considered a secure mode of communication due to their reliability. Chaotic maps are associated with the other domains to construct robust encryption algorithms. There exist numerous encryption schemes in the literature based on chaotic maps. This work aims to propose an attack on a recently proposed hyper-chaotic map-based cryptosystem. The core notion of the original algorithm was based on permutation and diffusion. A bit-level permutation approach was used to do the permutation row-and column-wise. The diffusion was executed in the forward and backward directions. The statistical strength of the cryptosystem has been demonstrated by extensive testing conducted… More >

Rawia Abdulla Mohammed^1,*, Maisa’a Abid Ali Khodher¹, Ashwak Alabaichi²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 2137-2153, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.036861

Abstract Encryption algorithms are one of the methods to protect data during its transmission through an unsafe transmission medium. But encryption methods need a lot of time during encryption and decryption, so it is necessary to find encryption algorithms that consume little time while preserving the security of the data. In this paper, more than one algorithm was combined to obtain high security with a short implementation time. A chaotic system, DNA computing, and Salsa20 were combined. A proposed 5D chaos system was used to generate more robust keys in a Salsa algorithm and DNA computing. Also, the confusion is performed… More >

Wangke Yu, Shuhua Wang^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 67-80, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.035337

Abstract Wireless network is the basis of the Internet of things and the intelligent vehicle Internet. Due to the complexity of the Internet of things and intelligent vehicle Internet environment, the nodes of the Internet of things and the intelligent vehicle Internet are more vulnerable to malicious destruction and attacks. Most of the proposed authentication and key agreement protocols for wireless networks are based on traditional cryptosystems such as large integer decomposition and elliptic curves. With the rapid development of quantum computing, these authentication protocols based on traditional cryptography will be more and more threatened, so it is necessary to design… More >

Xiaohong Wang, Huiqing Wu, Yuying Ma, Shuzhen Huang^*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.1, pp. 1093-1108, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.036652

Abstract With the rapid development of 5G technology, it has become fast and easy for people to transmit information on the Internet. Digital images can express information more intuitively, so transmitting information through images has excellent applications. This paper uses a new chaotic system called 1D-Sin-Logistic-Map (1D-SLM). 1D-SLM has two control parameters, which can provide larger parameter space, and the parameter space in the chaotic state is continuous. Through Lyapunov exponent analysis (LE), bifurcation diagrams analysis, spectral entropy analysis (SE), and 0-1 test, it is verified that 1D-SLM has complex dynamic behavior and is very suitable for cryptography. Compared with other… More >