• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.41-49
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• 2016

Lossless encryption methods are more applicable than lossy encryption methods when marginal distortion is not tolerable. In this research, the author propose a novel lossless symmetric key encryption/decryption technique. In the proposed algorithm, the image is transformed into the frequency domain using the lifting wavelet transform, then the image sub-bands are encrypted in a such way that guarantees a secure, reliable, and an unbreakable form. The encryption involves scattering the distinguishable frequency data in the image using a reversible weighting factor amongst the rest of the frequencies. The algorithm is designed to shuffle and reverse the sign of each frequency in the transformed image before the image frequencies are transformed back to the pixel domain. The results show a total deviation in pixel values between the original and encrypted image. The decryption algorithm reverses the encryption process and restores the image to its original form. The proposed algorithm is evaluated using standard security and statistical methods; results show that the proposed work is resistant to most known attacks and more secure than other algorithms in the cryptography domain.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.83-93
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• 2021

COVID-19 poses a major risk to global health, highlighting the importance of faster and proper diagnosis. To handle the rise in the number of patients and eliminate redundant tests, healthcare information exchange and medical data are transmitted between healthcare centres. Medical data sharing helps speed up patient treatment; consequently, exchanging healthcare data is the requirement of the present era. Since healthcare professionals share data through the internet, security remains a critical challenge, which needs to be addressed. During the COVID-19 pandemic, computed tomography (CT) and X-ray images play a vital part in the diagnosis process, constituting information that needs to be shared among hospitals. Encryption and image steganography techniques can be employed to achieve secure data transmission of COVID-19 images. This study presents a new encryption with the image steganography model for secure data transmission (EIS-SDT) for COVID-19 diagnosis. The EIS-SDT model uses a multilevel discrete wavelet transform for image decomposition and Manta Ray Foraging Optimization algorithm for optimal pixel selection. The EIS-SDT method uses a double logistic chaotic map (DLCM) is employed for secret image encryption. The application of the DLCM-based encryption procedure provides an additional level of security to the image steganography technique. An extensive simulation results analysis ensures the effective performance of the EIS-SDT model and the results are investigated under several evaluation parameters. The outcome indicates that the EIS-SDT model has outperformed the existing methods considerably.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 Ⅳ
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• pp.1859-1862
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• 2003

Security of digital images attracts much attention recently, and many image encryption methods have been proposed. This paper proposed an image encryption methodology to hide the image information. The target data of it is the result from quantization in the wavelet domain. This method encrypts only part of the image data rather than the whole data of the original image. For ciphering the quantization index we use a novel image encryption Algorithm called BRIE(Bit Recirculation Image Encryption). which was proposed by J. C. Yen and J. I. Guo in 1999. According to a chaotic binary sequence generated by BRIE, the block which is produced by quantization index is cyclically shifted in the right or left direction. Finally, simulation results are included to demonstrate its effectiveness.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.242-245
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• 2019

In this paper, watermark embedding technique was proposed to securely conceal the watermark in color cover image by applying the spatial encryption technique. The embedded watermak can be extracted from stego-image without loss. The quality of the stego-image is very good. So it is not possible to visually distinguish the difference between the original cover image and the stego-image. The validity of the proposed technique was verified by mathematical analysis. The proposed watermark embedding technique can be used for intellectual property protection, military, and medical applications that require high security.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.2698-2717
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• 2019

This paper proposes a multi-stage encryption technique to enhance the level of secrecy of image to facilitate its secured transmission through the public network. A great number of researches have been done on image secrecy. The existing image encryption techniques like visual cryptography (VC), steganography, watermarking etc. while are applied individually, usually they cannot provide unbreakable secrecy. In this paper, through combining several separate techniques, a hybrid multi-stage encryption technique is proposed which provides nearly unbreakable image secrecy, while the encryption/decryption time remains almost the same of the exiting techniques. The technique consecutively exploits VC, steganography and one time pad (OTP). At first it encrypts the input image using VC, i.e., splits the pixels of the input image into multiple shares to make it unpredictable. Then after the pixel to binary conversion within each share, the exploitation of steganography detects the least significant bits (LSBs) from each chunk within each share. At last, OTP encryption technique is applied on LSBs along with randomly generated OTP secret key to generate the ultimate cipher image. Besides, prior to sending the OTP key to the receiver, first it is converted from binary to integer and then an asymmetric cryptosystem is applied to encrypt it and thereby the key is delivered securely. Finally, the outcome, the time requirement of encryption and decryption, the security and statistical analyses of the proposed technique are evaluated and compared with existing techniques.

• 정보처리학회논문지C
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• 제8C권5호
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• pp.525-534
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• 2001

일반적으로 무손실 영상압축 및 암호화 방법에는 압축과 암호화 과정이 독립적으로 이루어진다. 압축 후 암호화를 수행하면 압축열이 암호에 대한 평문으로 사용되므로 압축에 따른 엔트로피가 감소하여 랜덤한 성질을 갖게된다. 그러나 압축열 전체에 대한 암호화는 수행시간이 길어져 실시간 처리를 저해하는 원인이 되기도 한다. 본 논문에서는 무손실 영상압축과 암호의 결합에서 전체 처리시간을 줄이는 방법을 제안한다. 이는 쿼드트리 압축 알고리즘으로 그레이 영상을 분해하여 구조부분만을 암호화하는 방법이다. 아울러 영상의 무상관성과 동질영역을 확보하기 위한 변환과정을 수행하여 무손실 압축성능을 개선하였고, 쿼드트리 분해시 암호화되지 않은 데이터를 레벨별로 재구성하여 안전성을 갖도록 하였다. 모의 실험을 통하여 제안한 방법이 영상 압축율의 개선과 암호화 방법의 안전성 확보 및 실시간 처리가 가능함을 확인하였다.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.132-139
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• 2024

In this paper, we proposed an effective technique that uses location-based encryption technique and spatial encryption technique to improve security vulnerabilities in previous reversible data hiding technique that can hide twice as much confidential data as the NSAS technique. If the proposed technique is applied to hide confidential data in an image, the same amount of confidential data can be hidden compared to the previous technique, but the security of confidential data is greatly enhanced. By hiding confidential data in an image using the proposed technique, high-quality stego-image can be generated, making it impossible to visually distinguish whether confidential data is hidden in the image. Additionally, confidential data can be restored from stego-image without loss, and the original cover image can also be restored without loss. Through experiments, it was confirmed that when confidential data is hidden by applying the proposed technique, the quality of the stego-image is maintained up to 39.73dB, and the security of the stego-image is greatly strengthened.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.1201-1208
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 두 개의 선형 MLCA(Maximum Length Cellular Automata)을 이용한 영상 암호화 방법을 제안한다. 암호화 방법은 먼저 8 비트 초기 값을 임의로 설정한다. 그 다음, 설정된 초기 값을 이용하여 행과 열을 단계적으로 변화시켜 고품질의 PN(pseudo noise) 수열을 생성한다. 생성된 수열을 이용하여 기저영상을 생성한다. 마지막으로 기저영상을 원 영상과 XOR 연산함으로서 암호화 수준이 높은 결과 영상을 얻는다. 히스토그램 및 안정성 분석을 통하여 제안한 방법이 높은 암호화 수준의 성질을 가졌음을 검증한다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2009년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.953-955
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 두 개의 선형 MLCA(Maximum Length Cellular Automata)을 이용한 영상 암호화 방법을 제안한다. 암호화 방법은 먼저 8 비트 초기 값을 임의로 설정한다. 그 다음, 설정된 초기 값을 이용하여 행과 열을 단계적으로 변화시켜 고품질의 PN(pseudo noise) 수열을 생성한다. 생성된 수열을 이용하여 기저영상을 생성한다. 마지막으로 기저영상을 원 영상과 XOR 연산함으로서 암호화 수준이 높은 결과 영상을 얻는다. 히스토그램 및 안정성 분석을 통하여 제안한 방법이 높은 암호화 수준의 성질을 가졌음을 검증한다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.155-162
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• 2008

컴퓨터의 성능과 인터넷의 발달로 디지털 이미지의 보안에 대한 중요성이 더욱더 증가하고 있고, 그 결과로 혼돈신호를 이용한 암호화 알고리즘은 이미지를 암호화하는 기술 중 새로운 방법으로 그 내용이 부각되고 있다 이 논문에서 서로 다른 두 개의 혼돈계를 잡음을 이용하여 동기화 시키는 방법에 대한 연구의 수행 결과를 보인다 이 동기화 방법으로 이미지 암호화 시스템을 구축하고 석가탑 이미지를 사용하여 구축된 암호화 시스템의 성능을 증명하였다. 연구 결과로 제시한 이미지 암호화 방법은 잡음이 복호화의 킷값으로 사용되는 암호화 방법으로 기존의 방법보다 암호화 정도가 강하게 된다. 본 연구에서는 우리는 이 암호화 방법이 효과적이면서 쉽게 적용될 수 있는 새로운 알고리즘이라고 제안한다.