Shahid Rahman¹, Fahad Masood², Wajid Ullah Khan², Niamat Ullah¹, Fazal Qudus Khan³, Georgios Tsaramirsis³, Sadeeq Jan^{4, *}, Majid Ashraf⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.1, pp. 31-61, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.09186

Abstract Steganography aims to hide the messages from unauthorized persons for various purposes, e.g., military correspondence, financial transaction data. Securing the data during transmission is of utmost importance these days. The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the data are at risk because of the emerging technologies and complexity in software applications, and therefore, there is a need to secure such systems and data. There are various methodologies to deal with security issues when utilizing an open system like the Internet. This research proposes a new technique in steganography within RGB shading space to achieve enhanced security compared with existing systems. We… More >

Ruoyu Su^{1, 4}, Xiaojun Sun^{1, 3}, Fei Ding^{1, 2, *}, Dengyin Zhang^{1, 2}, Hongbo Zhu^{1, 2}, M. I. M. Wahab⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.3, pp. 1387-1395, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.06864

Abstract Wireless communications have to face to several different security issues in practice due to the nature of broadcast. The information theory is well known to provide efficient approaches to address security issues in wireless communications, which attracts much attention in both industry and academia in recent years. In this paper, inspired by information theory, we study the outage probability of the opportunistic relay selection based on cognitive decode-and-forward relaying with the secrecy consideration. Specifically, the closed-form expression of the outage probability is proposed. Moreover, the asymptotic performance evaluation on the basis of the analytical results is investigated. The simulation results… More >

Mingming Wang^1,2,*, Chen Yang¹, Reza Mousoli³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.55, No.2, pp. 321-329, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.02064

Abstract Quantum secure communications could securely transmit quantum information by using quantum resource. Recently, novel applications such as bidirectional and asymmetric quantum protocols have been developed. In this paper, we propose a new method for generating entanglement which is highly useful for multiparty quantum communications such as teleportation and Remote State Preparation (RSP). As one of its applications, we propose a new type of quantum secure communications, i.e. cyclic RSP protocols. Starting from a four-party controlled cyclic RSP protocol of one-qubit states, we show that this cyclic protocol can be generalized to a multiparty controlled cyclic RSP protocol for preparation of… More >