Cryptography: Mathematical Advancements on Cyber Security

The origin of cryptography, the study of encoding and decoding messages, dates back to ancient times around 1900 BC. The ancient Egyptians enlisted the use of basic encryption techniques to conceal personal information. Eventually, the realm of cryptography grew to include the concealment of more important information, and cryptography quickly became the backbone of cyber security. Many companies today use encryption to protect online data, and the government even uses encryption to conceal confidential information. Mathematics played a huge role in advancing the methods of cryptography. By looking at the math behind the most basic methods to the newest methods of cryptography, one can learn how cryptography has advanced and will continue to advance

Agri-Food Traceability Management using a RFID System with Privacy Protection

In this paper an agri-food traceability system based on public key cryptography and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is proposed. In order to guarantee safety in food, an efficient tracking and tracing system is required. RFID devices allow recording all useful information for traceability directly on the commodity. The security issues are discussed and two different methods based on public cryptography are proposed and evaluated. The first algorithm uses a nested RSA based structure to improve security, while the second also provides authenticity of data. An experimental analysis demonstrated that the proposed system is well suitable on PDAs to

Ensuring patients privacy in a cryptographic-based-electronic health records using bio-cryptography

Several recent works have proposed and implemented cryptography as a means to preserve privacy and security of patients health data. Nevertheless, the weakest point of electronic health record (EHR) systems that relied on these cryptographic schemes is key management. Thus, this paper presents the development of privacy and security system for cryptography-based-EHR by taking advantage of the uniqueness of fingerprint and iris characteristic features to secure cryptographic keys in a bio-cryptography framework. The results of the system evaluation showed significant improvements in terms of time efficiency of this approach to cryptographic-based-EHR. Both the fuzzy vault and fuzzy commitment demonstrated false acceptance rate (FAR) of 0%, which reduces the likelihood of imposters gaining successful access to the keys protecting patients protected health information. This result also justifies the feasibility of implementing fuzzy key binding scheme in real applications, especially fuzzy vault which demonstrated a better performance during key reconstruction

Application of Elliptical Curve Cryptography in Empowering Cloud Data Security

Cloud computing is one of the most preferable and used technologies in IT Industry in the present scenario. Providing security to cloud data in cloud environment has become popular feature in industry and academic research. Cloud Computing is a conceptual concept based on technology that is widely used by many companies these days. The Elliptical Curve Cryptography algorithm ensures the integrity and authentication of secure communications with non-repudiation of communication and data confidentiality. Elliptical Curve Cryptography is also known as a public key cryptography technique based on the elliptic curve theory that can be used to create a fast, small, more efficient and unpredictable cryptographic key. This paper provides authentication and confidentiality to cloud data using Elliptical Curve Cryptography. This paper attempts to evolve cloud security and cloud data security by creating digital signatures and encryption with elliptical curve cryptography. The proposed method is an attempt to provide security to encryption keys using access control list, wherein it lists all the authorized users to give access to the encryption keys stored in cloud

Quantum cryptography for secured communication networks

Quantum cryptography is a method for accessing data with the cryptosystem more efficiently. The network security and the cryptography are the two major properties in securing the data in the communication network. The quantum cryptography uses the single photon passing through the polarization of a photon. In Quantum Cryptography, it's impossible for the eavesdropper to copy or modify the encrypted messages in the quantum states in which we are sending through the optical fiber channels. Cryptography performed by using the protocols BB84 and B92 protocols. The two basic algorithms of quantum cryptography are Shor’s algorithm and the Grover’s’s algorithm. For finding the number of integer factorization of each photon, Shor’s algorithm is used. Grover’s’s algorithm used for searching the unsorted data. Shor’s algorithm overcomes RSA algorithm by high security. By the implementation of quantum cryptography, we are securing the information from the eavesdropper and thereby preventing data in the communication channel

A More Effective Approach Securing Text Data Based On Private Key Cryptography

Internet & smart phone makes easy to access and share data from anywhere in the world. Every day terabytes of data are being generated and used. Several important real life applications like banking transactions, credit information, and confidential data is transferred using internet. All the users need to prevent their data from unauthorized access. Data security during communication using internet and smart phone is a difficult task. Cryptography plays an integral part in data security. Cryptography provides confidentiality and maintains integrity between genuine users. Cryptography used mathematical techniques for security aspects such as confidentiality, data integrity, entity authentication, and data authentication. A cryptographic algorithm works using combination of keys to encrypt the plaintext. The security of encrypted data is entirely dependent on the strength of the cryptographic algorithm and the secrecy of the key. In this paper an efficient approach based on private key to encrypt and decrypt text data is proposed

Security improvement of using modified coherent state for quantum cryptography

Weak coherent states as a photon source for quantum cryptography have limit in secure data rate and transmission distance because of the presence of multi-photon events and loss in transmission line. Two-photon events in a coherent state can be taken out by a two-photon interference scheme. We investigate the security issue of utilizing this modified coherent state in quantum cryptography. A 4 dB improvement in secure data rate or a nearly two-fold increase in transmission distance over the coherent state are found. With a recently proposed and improved encoding strategy, further improvement is possible.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Physical Review