Ademola Olusola Adesina¹, Patrick Seun Ayobioloja², Ibidun Christiana Obagbuwa³, Tola John Odule¹, Adenrele A. Afolorunso², Sunday Adeola Ajagbe^4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.2, pp. 2661-2675, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.031245

Abstract CAPTCHA is an acronym that stands for Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA), it is a good example of an authentication system that can be used to determine the true identity of any user. It serves as a security measure to prevent an attack caused by web bots (automatic programs) during an online transaction. It can come as text-based or image-based depending on the project and the programmer. The usability and robustness, as well as level of security, provided each of the varies and call for the development of an improved system. Hence, this… More >

Lamiaa A. Abou Elazm^1,2, Walid El-Shafai^3,4, Sameh Ibrahim², Mohamed G. Egila¹, H. Shawkey¹, Mohamed K. H. Elsaid², Naglaa F. Soliman⁵, Hussah Nasser AlEisa^6,*, Fathi E. Abd El-Samie³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.1, pp. 929-955, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.031386

Abstract Biometric security is a growing trend, as it supports the authentication of persons using confidential biometric data. Most of the transmitted data in multimedia systems are susceptible to attacks, which affect the security of these systems. Biometric systems provide sufficient protection and privacy for users. The recently-introduced cancellable biometric recognition systems have not been investigated in the presence of different types of attacks. In addition, they have not been studied on different and large biometric datasets. Another point that deserves consideration is the hardware implementation of cancellable biometric recognition systems. This paper presents a suggested hybrid cancellable biometric recognition system… More >

Shu-Yu Kuo¹, Kuo-Chun Tseng², Yao-Hsin Chou³, Fan-Hsun Tseng^4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 915-932, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.032320

Abstract In cryptography, oblivious transfer (OT) is an important multi-party cryptographic primitive and protocol, that is suitable for many upper-layer applications, such as secure computation, remote coin-flipping, electrical contract signing and exchanging secrets simultaneously. However, some no-go theorems have been established, indicating that one-out-of-two quantum oblivious transfer (QOT) protocols with unconditional security are impossible. Fortunately, some one-out-of-two QOT protocols using the concept of Crépeau’s reduction have been demonstrated not to conform to Lo’s no-go theorem, but these protocols require more quantum resources to generate classical keys using all-or-nothing QOT to construct one-out-of-two QOT. This paper proposes a novel and efficient one-out-of-two… 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 >

Fawaz Alassery¹, Ahmed Alzahrani², Asif Irshad Khan², Kanika Sharma³, Masood Ahmad⁴, Raees Ahmad Khan^4,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.1, pp. 859-872, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.025796

Abstract In recent years, it has been observed that the disclosure of information increases the risk of terrorism. Without restricting the accessibility of information, providing security is difficult. So, there is a demand for time to fill the gap between security and accessibility of information. In fact, security tools should be usable for improving the security as well as the accessibility of information. Though security and accessibility are not directly influenced, some of their factors are indirectly influenced by each other. Attributes play an important role in bridging the gap between security and accessibility. In this paper, we identify the key… More >

Haya Mesfer Alshahrani¹, Faisal S. Alsubaei², Taiseer Abdalla Elfadil Eisa³, Mohamed K. Nour⁴, Manar Ahmed Hamza^5,*, Abdelwahed Motwakel⁵, Abu Sarwar Zamani⁵, Ishfaq Yaseen⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 1557-1570, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.027135

Abstract The increasing quantity of sensitive and personal data being gathered by data controllers has raised the security needs in the cloud environment. Cloud computing (CC) is used for storing as well as processing data. Therefore, security becomes important as the CC handles massive quantity of outsourced, and unprotected sensitive data for public access. This study introduces a novel chaotic chimp optimization with machine learning enabled information security (CCOML-IS) technique on cloud environment. The proposed CCOML-IS technique aims to accomplish maximum security in the CC environment by the identification of intrusions or anomalies in the network. The proposed CCOML-IS technique primarily… 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 >

Khaled Suwais^*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.33, No.3, pp. 1815-1834, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.025076

Abstract Securing communication over public communication channels is one of the challenging issues in the field of cryptography and information security. A stream cipher is presented as an approach for securing exchanged data between different parties through encryption. The core of stream cipher relies on its keystream generator, that is responsible for generating random and secure keystream of encrypting streaming data. Thus, the security of the keystream is measured by its randomness and its resistance to statistical and cryptanalytic attacks. As there is always a trade-off between the security and performance while designing new cryptographic primitives, we introduce a game theory-based… More >

Khalid A. El Drandaly¹, Walid Khedr¹, Islam S. Mohamed¹, Ayman Mohamed Mostafa^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 5253-5270, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023684

Abstract Information security is one of the most important methods of protecting the confidentiality and privacy of internet users. The greater the volume of data, the more the need to increase the security methods for protecting data from intruders. This task can be challenging for researchers in terms of managing enormous data and maintaining their safety and effectiveness. Protection of digital content is a major issue in maintaining the privacy and secrecy of data. Toward this end, digital watermarking is based on the concept of information security through the insertion and detection of an embedded watermark in an efficient manner. Recent… More >

A. Indumathi^*, G. Sumathi

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.32, No.3, pp. 1509-1524, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.022743

Abstract As cloud storage systems have developed and been applied in complex environments, their data security has become more prevalent in recent years. The issue has been approached through many models. Data is encrypted and stored in these models. One of the most widely used encryption methods is the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). In AES, the Substitution box(S-box) is playing a significant part in imparting the job of confusion. The security of the entire cryptosystem depends on its nonlinearity. In this work, a robust and secure S-box is constructed using a novel method, i.e., fingerprint features-based permutation function. Two stages are… More >