Ibtisam A. Taqi^*, Sarab M. Hameed

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.85, No.1, pp. 1653-1674, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.067524 - 29 August 2025

Abstract The exponential growth of audio data shared over the internet and communication channels has raised significant concerns about the security and privacy of transmitted information. Due to high processing requirements, traditional encryption algorithms demand considerable computational effort for real-time audio encryption. To address these challenges, this paper presents a permutation for secure audio encryption using a combination of Tent and 1D logistic maps. The audio data is first shuffled using Tent map for the random permutation. The high random secret key with a length equal to the size of the audio data is then generated… More >

Borja Bordel Sánchez^1,*, Fernando Rodríguez-Sela¹, Ramón Alcarria², Tomás Robles¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.83, No.2, pp. 1821-1853, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.059012 - 16 April 2025

Abstract The Industry 4.0 revolution is characterized by distributed infrastructures where data must be continuously communicated between hardware nodes and cloud servers. Specific lightweight cryptosystems are needed to protect those links, as the hardware node tends to be resource-constrained. Then Pseudo Random Number Generators are employed to produce random keys, whose final behavior depends on the initial seed. To guarantee good mathematical behavior, most key generators need an unpredictable voltage signal as input. However, physical signals evolve slowly and have a significant autocorrelation, so they do not have enough entropy to support high-randomness seeds. Then, electronic… More >

Umer Nauman¹, Yuhong Zhang², Zhihui Li³, Tong Zhen^1,3,*

Journal of Intelligent Medicine and Healthcare, Vol.2, pp. 15-34, 2024, DOI:10.32604/jimh.2024.048784 - 11 April 2024

Abstract The convergence of handheld devices and cloud-based computing has transformed how Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are stored in mobile cloud paradigms, offering benefits such as affordability, adaptability, and portability. However, it also introduces challenges regarding network security and data confidentiality, as it aims to exchange EHRs among mobile users while maintaining high levels of security. This study proposes an innovative blockchain-based solution to these issues and presents secure cloud storage for healthcare data. To provide enhanced cryptography, the proposed method combines an enhanced Blowfish encryption method with a new key generation technique called Elephant Herding… More >

Mesfer Al Duhayyim^1,*, Fatma S. Alrayes², Saud S. Alotaibi³, Sana Alazwari⁴, Nasser Allheeib⁵, Ayman Yafoz⁶, Raed Alsini⁶, Amira Sayed A. Aziz⁷

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.3, pp. 3209-3223, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.034185 - 03 April 2023

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) offers a new era of connectivity, which goes beyond laptops and smart connected devices for connected vehicles, smart homes, smart cities, and connected healthcare. The massive quantity of data gathered from numerous IoT devices poses security and privacy concerns for users. With the increasing use of multimedia in communications, the content security of remote-sensing images attracted much attention in academia and industry. Image encryption is important for securing remote sensing images in the IoT environment. Recently, researchers have introduced plenty of algorithms for encrypting images. This study introduces an Improved… More >

Ping Zhang¹, Haoran Zhu¹, Wenjun Li², Osama Alfarraj³, Amr Tolba³, Gwang-jun Kim^4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.2, pp. 3589-3605, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.032097 - 31 March 2023

Abstract Many Internet of things application scenarios have the characteristics of limited hardware resources and limited energy supply, which are not suitable for traditional security technology. The security technology based on the physical mechanism has attracted extensive attention. How to improve the key generation rate has always been one of the urgent problems to be solved in the security technology based on the physical mechanism. In this paper, superlattice technology is introduced to the security field of Internet of things, and a high-speed symmetric key generation scheme based on superlattice for Internet of things is proposed. More >

S. Castro^1,*, R. PushpaLakshmi²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.2, pp. 2267-2279, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.032222 - 05 January 2023

Abstract Cloud computing has become ubiquitous in our daily lives in recent years. Data are the source of technology that is generated hugely by various sources. Big data is dealing with huge data volumes or complex data. The major concern in big data is security threats. Security concerns create a negative impact on the user on the aspect of trust. In big data still, security threats exist as commonly known as DDOS (Distributed-Denial-of-Service) attacks, data loss, Inadequate Data Backups, System Vulnerabilities, and Phishing as well as Social Engineering Attacks. In our work, we have taken the… More >

Mesfer Al Duhayyim^1,*, Mohammed Maray², Ayman Qahmash², Fatma S. Alrayes³, Nuha Alshuqayran⁴, Jaber S. Alzahrani⁵, Mohammed Alghamdi^2,6, Abdullah Mohamed⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.2, pp. 3133-3149, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.032740 - 31 October 2022

Abstract Nowadays, security plays an important role in Internet of Things (IoT) environment especially in medical services’ domains like disease prediction and medical data storage. In healthcare sector, huge volumes of data are generated on a daily basis, owing to the involvement of advanced health care devices. In general terms, health care images are highly sensitive to alterations due to which any modifications in its content can result in faulty diagnosis. At the same time, it is also significant to maintain the delicate contents of health care images during reconstruction stage. Therefore, an encryption system is… More >

S. Hanis^*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.1, pp. 865-878, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.030597 - 29 September 2022

Abstract In the recent past, the storage of images and data in the cloud has shown rapid growth due to the tremendous usage of multimedia applications. In this paper, a modulated version of the Ikeda map and key generation algorithm are proposed, which can be used as a chaotic key for securely storing images in the cloud. The distinctive feature of the proposed map is that it is hyperchaotic, highly sensitive to initial conditions, and depicts chaos over a wide range of control parameter variations. These properties prevent the attacker from detecting and extracting the keys… More >

K. S. Riya¹, R. Surendran^2,*, Carlos Andrés Tavera Romero³, M. Sadish Sendil⁴

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.35, No.1, pp. 507-520, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.027779 - 06 June 2022

Abstract Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) enabled e-healthcare has the potential to greately improve conventional healthcare services significantly. However, security and privacy become major issues of IoMT because of the restricted processing abilities, storage, and energy constraints of the sensors. Therefore, it leads to infeasibility of developing traditional cryptographic solutions to the IoMT sensors. In order to ensure security on sensitive medical data, effective encryption and authentication techniques need to be designed to assure security of the patients and healthcare service providers. In this view, this study designs an effective metaheuristic optimization based encryption with user… More >

C. S. S. Anupama¹, Raed Alsini², N. Supriya³, E. Laxmi Lydia⁴, Seifedine Kadry⁵, Sang-Soo Yeo⁶, Yongsung Kim^7,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 3219-3233, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.030267 - 16 June 2022

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain receive significant interest owing to their applicability in different application areas such as healthcare, finance, transportation, etc. Medical image security and privacy become a critical part of the healthcare sector where digital images and related patient details are communicated over the public networks. This paper presents a new wind driven optimization algorithm based medical image encryption (WDOA-MIE) technique for blockchain enabled IoT environments. The WDOA-MIE model involves three major processes namely data collection, image encryption, optimal key generation, and data transmission. Initially, the medical images were captured from the… More >