Yuling Chen^1,2, Junhong Tao¹, Tao Li^1,*, Jiangyuan Cai³, Xiaojun Ren⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.3, pp. 5141-5158, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.037783

Abstract With the development of cloud computing technology, more and more data owners upload their local data to the public cloud server for storage and calculation. While this can save customers’ operating costs, it also poses privacy and security challenges. Such challenges can be solved using secure multi-party computation (SMPC), but this still exposes more security issues. In cloud computing using SMPC, clients need to process their data and submit the processed data to the cloud server, which then performs the calculation and returns the results to each client. Each client and server must be honest. If there is cooperation or… More >

Jiansheng Zhang¹, Yang Xin^1,*, Yuyan Wang², Xiaohui Lei², Yixian Yang¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.3, pp. 6323-6336, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.034668

Abstract With the increasing use of distributed electric vehicles (EV), energy management in the Internet of vehicles (IoV) has attracted more attention, especially demand response (DR) management to achieve efficient energy management in IoV. Therefore, it is a tendency to introduce distributed energy such as renewable energy into the existing supply system. For optimizing the energy internet (EI) for IoV, in this paper, we introduce blockchain into energy internet and propose a secure EI scheme for IoV based on post-quantum blockchain, which provides the new information services and an incentive cooperation mechanism for the current energy IoV system. Firstly, based on… More >

Mohammad Yamin^1,*, Tom Gedeon², Saleh Bajaba³, Mona M. Abusurrah⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.3, pp. 5659-5674, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.034005

Abstract In recent years, the demand for biometric-based human recognition methods has drastically increased to meet the privacy and security requirements. Palm prints, palm veins, finger veins, fingerprints, hand veins and other anatomic and behavioral features are utilized in the development of different biometric recognition techniques. Amongst the available biometric recognition techniques, Finger Vein Recognition (FVR) is a general technique that analyzes the patterns of finger veins to authenticate the individuals. Deep Learning (DL)-based techniques have gained immense attention in the recent years, since it accomplishes excellent outcomes in various challenging domains such as computer vision, speech detection and Natural Language… More >

Dawood Shah^1,*, Tariq Shah¹, Sajjad Shaukat Jamal², Mohammad Mazyad Hazzazi², Amer Aljaedi³, Adel R. Alharbi³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.3, pp. 5073-5086, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.020513

Abstract Data Encryption Standard (DES) is a symmetric key cryptosystem that is applied in different cryptosystems of recent times. However, researchers found defects in the main assembling of the DES and declared it insecure against linear and differential cryptanalysis. In this paper, we have studied the faults and made improvements in their internal structure and get the new algorithm for Improved DES. The improvement is being made in the substitution step, which is the only nonlinear component of the algorithm. This alteration provided us with great outcomes and increase the strength of DES. Accordingly, a novel good quality S-box construction scheme… More >

Guangxia Xu^1,*, Lei Liu², Jingnan Dong³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.137, No.1, pp. 903-922, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.026627

Abstract In recent years, with the great success of pre-trained language models, the pre-trained BERT model has been gradually applied to the field of source code understanding. However, the time cost of training a language model from zero is very high, and how to transfer the pre-trained language model to the field of smart contract vulnerability detection is a hot research direction at present. In this paper, we propose a hybrid model to detect common vulnerabilities in smart contracts based on a lightweight pre-trained language model BERT and connected to a bidirectional gate recurrent unit model. The downstream neural network adopts… More >

S. Priya^1,*, K. Pradeep Mohan Kumar²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.3, pp. 3339-3353, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.030630

Abstract An intrusion detection system (IDS) becomes an important tool for ensuring security in the network. In recent times, machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) models can be applied for the identification of intrusions over the network effectively. To resolve the security issues, this paper presents a new Binary Butterfly Optimization algorithm based on Feature Selection with DRL technique, called BBOFS-DRL for intrusion detection. The proposed BBOFSDRL model mainly accomplishes the recognition of intrusions in the network. To attain this, the BBOFS-DRL model initially designs the BBOFS algorithm based on the traditional butterfly optimization algorithm (BOA) to elect feature subsets.… More >

Thien-Phuc Doan, Ngoc-Tu Chau, Jungsoo Park, Souhwan Jung^*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.3, pp. 3059-3073, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.038664

Abstract Nowadays, with the significant growth of the mobile market, security issues on the Android Operation System have also become an urgent matter. Trusted execution environment (TEE) technologies are considered an option for satisfying the inviolable property by taking advantage of hardware security. However, for Android, TEE technologies still contain restrictions and limitations. The first issue is that non-original equipment manufacturer developers have limited access to the functionality of hardware-based TEE. Another issue of hardware-based TEE is the cross-platform problem. Since every mobile device supports different TEE vendors, it becomes an obstacle for developers to migrate their trusted applications to other… More >

Walid El-Shafai^1,2,*, Fatma Khallaf^2,3, El-Sayed M. El-Rabaie², Fathi E. Abd El-Samie², Iman Almomani^1,4

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.3, pp. 3599-3618, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.037655

Abstract This paper presents a robust multi-stage security solution based on fusion, encryption, and watermarking processes to transmit color healthcare images, efficiently. The presented solution depends on the features of discrete cosine transform (DCT), lifting wavelet transform (LWT), and singular value decomposition (SVD). The primary objective of this proposed solution is to ensure robustness for the color medical watermarked images against transmission attacks. During watermark embedding, the host color medical image is transformed into four sub-bands by employing three stages of LWT. The resulting low-frequency sub-band is then transformed by employing three stages of DCT followed by SVD operation. Furthermore, a… More >

Sahar Badri¹, Sana Ullah Jan^2,*, Daniyal Alghazzawi¹, Sahar Aldhaheri¹, Nikolaos Pitropakis²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.3, pp. 3667-3684, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.037531

Abstract Rapid technological advancement has enabled modern healthcare systems to provide more sophisticated and real-time services on the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT). The existing cloud-based, centralized IoMT architectures are vulnerable to multiple security and privacy problems. The blockchain-enabled IoMT is an emerging paradigm that can ensure the security and trustworthiness of medical data sharing in the IoMT networks. This article presents a private and easily expandable blockchain-based framework for the IoMT. The proposed framework contains several participants, including private blockchain, hospital management systems, cloud service providers, doctors, and patients. Data security is ensured by incorporating an attribute-based encryption scheme. Furthermore,… More >

Mohammed Basheri, Mahmoud Ragab^*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.3, pp. 3783-3798, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.037130

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the emergent technologies with advanced developments in several applications like creating smart environments, enabling Industry 4.0, etc. As IoT devices operate via an inbuilt and limited power supply, the effective utilization of available energy plays a vital role in designing the IoT environment. At the same time, the communication of IoT devices in wireless mediums poses security as a challenging issue. Recently, intrusion detection systems (IDS) have paved the way to detect the presence of intrusions in the IoT environment. With this motivation, this article introduces a novel Quantum Cat Swarm Optimization… More >