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    Text file may be confidential and it can contain secret information that required protection from being hacked. In this research paper a simple method of text files cryptography will be introduced, this method will suit any text file with... more
    Text file may be confidential and it can contain secret information that required protection from being hacked. In this research paper a simple method of text files cryptography will be introduced, this method will suit any text file with any size; the sequence of required operations will remain the same without any change even if we change the text file and the private key. The introduced method of data cryptography will provide a high level of security; the private key will provide a huge key space making the hacking process impossible. The private key will have a complicated structure with multiple components, these components are to be used to generate three keys needed to apply three rounds of encryption-decryption, the keys will be very sensitive to any minor changes, any changes in the private key components in the decryption phase will be considered as a hacking attempt. The private key will base on chaotic logistic map model to generate 2D chaotic keys. The proposed method will be implemented and the obtained results will be analyzed using various types of analysis to prove the efficiency enhancement provide by the proposed method.
    Protecting speech file is a vital issue. In this paper research a simple method of speech cryptography will be introduced. The method will use indices key to perform simple replacement operations to apply speech encryption and decryption,... more
    Protecting speech file is a vital issue. In this paper research a simple method of speech cryptography will be introduced. The method will use indices key to perform simple replacement operations to apply speech encryption and decryption, the replacement operation will use the indexes and the indexes contents to apply speech cryptography. The proposed method will protect the speech signal by increasing the security level, the method will use a color image as an image_key, this key will be kept in secret between the sender and receiver and it will be used to generate the indices key. The proposed will sensitive to the selected image_key, changing this image will be considered as a hacking attempt by producing a damaged decrypted speech signal. The proposed method will be flexible, changing the image_key will not cause any changes in the proposed method algorithms. To increase the efficiency of the proposed method by decreasing the processing time the speech file will be divided into blocks, and each block will be treated separately. The proposed method will be tested and implemented using various speech files, the obtained results will be used to prove the quality, sensitivity and efficiency of the proposed method.
    A simple and easy to implement method of data cryptography will be introduced. This method can be easily used to encrypt-decrypt digital images with any type and size, it can be used to treat gray images, color images and secret messages.... more
    A simple and easy to implement method of data cryptography will be introduced. This method can be easily used to encrypt-decrypt digital images with any type and size, it can be used to treat gray images, color images and secret messages. The simplified encryption and decryption function will minimize the required time for cryptography and they will use a simple operation of pixels' values rearrangement to apply encryption and decryption. The values rearrangement is to be applied using a generated index key. The index key is generated using the chaotic logistic key formed by running a chaotic logistic map model using a selected values of chaotic parameters. The proposed method will increase the level of image protection by using a private key which is capable to increase the key space to resist hacking attacks. The proposed method will be tested and implemented using various images, the obtained results will be analyzed to prove the quality, efficiency and sensitivity of the proposed method.
    Protecting LSB method of data steganography is a vital issue. In this paper research a secure LSB method will be introduced. The method will use a private key to divide a covering image into block and a secret block will be selected to... more
    Protecting LSB method of data steganography is a vital issue. In this paper research a secure LSB method will be introduced. The method will use a private key to divide a covering image into block and a secret block will be selected to apply message hiding and message extracting. The extracted message will be very sensitive the selected block size and the selected block number. The proposed method will simplify the hiding and extraction functions by using patch method, this simplification will increase the method efficiency. The proposed method will be tested for sensitivity, several images and several messages will be selected and the quality of the stego images will be examined.
    Using chaotic logistic keys in message cryptography is a popular technique; it provides a high level of message security by protecting it from being hacked. This technique becomes inefficient when the message length is big, because a... more
    Using chaotic logistic keys in message cryptography is a popular technique; it provides a high level of message security by protecting it from being hacked. This technique becomes inefficient when the message length is big, because a chaotic key of big length requires much time to be generated. To overcome this problem this paper research will provide a novel method for short and long messages cryptography. The new method will use a complicated private key which will provide a huge key space to resist any kids of attacks. The private key will be used to divide the message into equal blocks (except the last block), and it will be also used to generate the index keys which are required to apply encryption and decryption, these keys will be generated from the obtained chaotic logistic keys. The proposed method will use a simple encryption and decryption functions, these functions will use the index keys values to distribute the source message to form the encrypted message and to retrie...
    Protecting LSB method of data steganography is a vital issue. In this paper research a secure LSB method will be introduced. The method will use a private key to divide a covering image into block and a secret block will be selected to... more
    Protecting LSB method of data steganography is a vital issue. In this paper research a secure LSB method will be introduced. The method will use a private key to divide a covering image into block and a secret block will be selected to apply message hiding and message extracting. The extracted message will be very sensitive the selected block size and the selected block number. The proposed method will simplify the hiding and extraction functions by using patch method, this simplification will increase the method efficiency. The proposed method will be tested for sensitivity, several images and several messages will be selected and the quality of the stego images will be examined.
    Using chaotic logistic keys in message cryptography is a popular technique; it provides a high level of message security by protecting it from being hacked. This technique becomes inefficient when the message length is big, because a... more
    Using chaotic logistic keys in message cryptography is a popular technique; it provides a high level of message security by protecting it from being hacked. This technique becomes inefficient when the message length is big, because a chaotic key of big length requires much time to be generated. To overcome this problem this paper research will provide a novel method for short and long messages cryptography. The new method will use a complicated private key which will provide a huge key space to resist any kids of attacks. The private key will be used to divide the message into equal blocks (except the last block), and it will be also used to generate the index keys which are required to apply encryption and decryption, these keys will be generated from the obtained chaotic logistic keys. The proposed method will use a simple encryption and decryption functions, these functions will use the index keys values to distribute the source message to form the encrypted message and to retrieve the decrypted message from the encrypted one. A recommendation of message dividing into blocks will be suggested, depending on the message length: when to divide a message and how many blocks are required. The required number of message blocks will be tested for various in length messages, the throughputs will be calculated to justify the process of message dividing into blocks. The proposed method will tested using various short and long messages, the obtained results will be analyzed to prove the quality, security, sensitivity and the efficiency of the proposed method.
    Gray and color digital images are used in many vital applications; such as fingerprint or face recognition. These applications require dealing with the digital image as a single image, even if this image is rotated with different rotation... more
    Gray and color digital images are used in many vital applications; such as fingerprint or face recognition. These applications require dealing with the digital image as a single image, even if this image is rotated with different rotation angles. This paper deals with using the digital image histogram to set image features and for multiple models of image rotation. A detailed study and analysis of wavelet packet tree decomposition will be introduced; various experiments will be done to show how to stabilize the image features for multiple modes of the image.
    Protecting digital images is an important task, because images may be secret or may be contain valuable secret information. In this paper research a simple, efficient and high secure method of digital images protection will be introduced.... more
    Protecting digital images is an important task, because images may be secret or may be contain valuable secret information. In this paper research a simple, efficient and high secure method of digital images protection will be introduced. The method will use a chaotic logistic map model with a selected chaotic parameter to generate a lookup table, which will be used in the encryption and decryption phases. The proposed method can use one lookup table to encrypt-decrypt color images, or it can use three lookup tables to encrypt-decrypt each color channel. The method will secure the encrypted image by using a complicated private key, which will provide a suitable key space capable to resist hacking attacks, the method outputs will be very sensitive to the selected private key contents, any minor changes in these contents in the decryption phase will be considered as a hacking attempt by producing a damaged decrypted image. It will be shown how using lookup table simplifies the process...
    An efficient, highly secure and simple method of short messages cryptography method will be introduced. The method will use a rearrangement key to encrypt-decrypt SMs, the key will be generated by running a chaotic logistic map model with... more
    An efficient, highly secure and simple method of short messages cryptography method will be introduced. The method will use a rearrangement key to encrypt-decrypt SMs, the key will be generated by running a chaotic logistic map model with a selected parameter, these parameters will form the private secret key which is known by the data sender and the data receiver. The private key will provide the necessary key space to resist hacking attacks. The SM up to I K bytes will be encrypted-decrypted using RK, if the message size is greater than 1 K bytes, the message will be divided into blocks of 1 K bytes’ length, and each block can be encrypted-decrypted using its own RK. The method will be simple and easy to implement, and it can suit any message with any length, the process of encryption is based on putting the character from the SM in its position maintained in the RK, the decryption will be implemented by recovering the characters from the decrypted SM by the indexes in the RK from...
    Text file some times contains secret or personal data which requires for protection from being hacked by unauthorized data hackers. In this research paper a simple, efficient and highly secure method of text file cryptography will be... more
    Text file some times contains secret or personal data which requires for protection from being hacked by unauthorized data hackers. In this research paper a simple, efficient and highly secure method of text file cryptography will be introduced. The text file will be divided into partitions with small sizes to increase the cryptography process throughput. Each partition will be encrypted-decrypted using its associated secret key. Each secret key will be generated from a chaotic logistic map by running a chaotic logistic map model with selected values of chaotic parameters. The chaotic keys will be converted to indices keys to form the secret keys. The secret keys will be used as a lockup tables to apply text file encryption-decryption. The characters of the text file will be rearranged based on the secret key indexes to form the encrypted text file. The characters of the encrypted file will be retrieved by the sequence of the indexes in the secret key. The contents of the decrypted ...
    Digital image is an important data type due to the wide applications requiring this data type. Some applications require image securing to protect the image from being hacked. Increasing the complicity of the private key will enhance the... more
    Digital image is an important data type due to the wide applications requiring this data type. Some applications require image securing to protect the image from being hacked. Increasing the complicity of the private key will enhance the security level of the image by increasing the kay space size. In this paper research a chaotic logistic map model will be used to generate the required key for data cryptography. A modification in the CLMM will be added to generate a 3D chaotic key, this key will be converted to integer key, then the obtained key will be rotated left using another information imbedded in the PK, the rotated key will be resized to match the color channel size using simple and efficient method of image resizing. Each color channel will be encrypted-decrypted separately using its own generated key. The proposed method will be implemented using various images, the obtained results will be analyzed using various methods of data analysis. The quality analysis will be use ...
    Securing transmitted speech file is a vital issue, in this paper research a new method of speech cryptography will be introduced, this method will be simple and easy to use, it can be used to encrypt-decrypt stereo and mono speeches with... more
    Securing transmitted speech file is a vital issue, in this paper research a new method of speech cryptography will be introduced, this method will be simple and easy to use, it can be used to encrypt-decrypt stereo and mono speeches with any size. The proposed method will use a complicated mixed chaotic key, this private key will hold a secret information, including the chaotic parameters required to run CTMM and CLMM to generate Chaotic keys, the PK will provide a huge key space making the hacking attempt impossible, the generated chaotic keys will sensitive to any minor changes in the chaotic parameters values, any minor changes in the decryption phase will produce a corrupted damaged decrypted file, and these changes will be considered as a hacking attempt. It will be proved how the proposed method will satisfy the quality requirements in the encryption and decryption phases, many measured will be introduced such as MSE, PSNR, CC and NSCR. The proposed method will be implemented and the obtained results will be analyzed using various types of data analysis to prove the performance issues of the proposed method.
    Gray and color digital images are used in many vital applications; such as fingerprint or face recognition. These applications require dealing with the digital image as a single image, even if this image is rotated with different rotation... more
    Gray and color digital images are used in many vital applications; such as fingerprint or face recognition. These applications require dealing with the digital image as a single image, even if this image is rotated with different rotation angles. This paper deals with using the digital image histogram to set image features and for multiple models of image rotation. A detailed study and analysis of wavelet packet tree decomposition will be introduced; various experiments will be done to show how to stabilize the image features for multiple modes of the image.
    Protecting digital images is an important task, because images may be secret or may be contain valuable secret information. In this paper research a simple, efficient and high secure method of digital images protection will be introduced.... more
    Protecting digital images is an important task, because images may be secret or may be contain valuable secret information. In this paper research a simple, efficient and high secure method of digital images protection will be introduced. The method will use a chaotic logistic map model with a selected chaotic parameter to generate a lookup table, which will be used in the encryption and decryption phases. The proposed method can use one lookup table to encrypt-decrypt color images, or it can use three lookup tables to encrypt-decrypt each color channel. The method will secure the encrypted image by using a complicated private key, which will provide a suitable key space capable to resist hacking attacks, the method outputs will be very sensitive to the selected private key contents, any minor changes in these contents in the decryption phase will be considered as a hacking attempt by producing a damaged decrypted image. It will be shown how using lookup table simplifies the process of image cryptography using the indexes and the indexes contents of the lookup table. The proposed method will be implemented and the obtained results will be analyzed to prove the quality of encryption and decryption phases based on the calculated MSE, PSNR, CC and NSCR. The speed of the proposed method will be tested, to show how the proposed method will increase the throughput of data cryptography by decreasing both the encryption and decryption times.
    An efficient, highly secure and simple method of short messages cryptography method will be introduced. The method will use a rearrangement key to encrypt-decrypt SMs, the key will be generated by running a chaotic logistic map model with... more
    An efficient, highly secure and simple method of short messages cryptography method will be introduced. The method will use a rearrangement key to encrypt-decrypt SMs, the key will be generated by running a chaotic logistic map model with a selected parameter, these parameters will form the private secret key which is known by the data sender and the data receiver. The private key will provide the necessary key space to resist hacking attacks. The SM up to I K bytes will be encrypted-decrypted using RK, if the message size is greater than 1 K bytes, the message will be divided into blocks of 1 K bytes’ length, and each block can be encrypted-decrypted using its own RK. The method will be simple and easy to implement, and it can suit any message with any length, the process of encryption is based on putting the character from the SM in its position maintained in the RK, the decryption will be implemented by recovering the characters from the decrypted SM by the indexes in the RK from the index 1 to the index L (L: is the message length).
    The proposed method will be implemented using various SMs, the results will be analyzed. Based on the obtained values of MSE, PSNR, CC and NSCR it will be proved that the proposed method satisfies the quality requirements in the encryption and decryption phases. The speed of the proposed method will be tested and the obtained results will be compared with other methods speed to show the improvements provided by the proposed method.
    Data steganography is one of the most popular methods of data protection, but most introduced methods are not secure. In this paper research a simplified LSB method of data steganography will produced, this method will easily used to hide... more
    Data steganography is one of the most popular methods of data protection, but most introduced methods are not secure. In this paper research a simplified LSB method of data steganography will produced, this method will easily used to hide any message in any covering image, changing the image or/and changing the message will not require any changes in the algorithm. The proposed method will use a complicated key to select a secret block from the covering image to be used to hide the message. The PK will contain 5 components of double data type, thus the PK will provide a huge key space which is capable to resist any hacking attempt, the algorithm of the proposed method will be very sensitive to the PK values, any changes in these values will be considered as a hacking attempt by producing unexpected outputs. The proposed method will be implemented and tested using various messages, various covering images, and various PK; the obtained results will be analyzed applying sensitivity analysis, quality analysis and security analysis to prove the improvements added to LSB method of data steganography.
    Text file some times contains secret or personal data which requires for protection from being hacked by unauthorized data hackers. In this research paper a simple, efficient and highly secure method of text file cryptography will be... more
    Text file some times contains secret or personal data which requires for protection from being hacked by unauthorized data hackers. In this research paper a simple, efficient and highly secure method of text file cryptography will be introduced. The text file will be divided into partitions with small sizes to increase the cryptography process throughput. Each partition will be encrypted-decrypted using its associated secret key. Each secret key will be generated from a chaotic logistic map by running a chaotic logistic map model with selected values of chaotic parameters. The chaotic keys will be converted to indices keys to form the secret keys. The secret keys will be used as a lockup tables to apply text file encryption-decryption. The characters of the text file will be rearranged based on the secret key indexes to form the encrypted text file. The characters of the encrypted file will be retrieved by the sequence of the indexes in the secret key. The contents of the decrypted file will be very sensitive to any changes in the chaotic parameters. The PK will have a complicated structure and it will contain the chaotic parameters values and the partition size. The partition size will be a percentage from the total text file size; this complicated structure will increase the key space, making it capable to resist any attack. The proposed method will be implemented using various in size text files, the obtained results will be analyzed to prove the quality, security and efficiency of the proposed method.
    In this paper, different 2×1 and 2×2 multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antennas were investigated with changing substrate shapes and changing the placing of the patches on the substrate, all the investigated antennas based on FR-4... more
    In this paper, different 2×1 and 2×2 multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antennas were investigated with changing substrate shapes and changing the placing of the patches on the substrate, all the investigated antennas based on FR-4 substrate are characterized by = 4.4, and loss = 0.02, with a partial ground. The original antenna covered 3.4 to 13.5 GHz. The best simulation results of the proposed 2×1 MIMO antenna received for 2×1 inverted with high ultra-wideband (UWB) with bandwidth up to 40 GHz, the received maximum gain was up to 6.51 dB, with an average gain of more than the original single antenna at about +1.27 dB. The best of eight 2×2 MIMO antennas configurations that give good results were shown. The best-received gain compared with a single antenna gain were at 4.2 GHz about +2.73, +1.17, and +0.92 dB for plus-shaped, loop, and chair-shaped respectively. A comparison between the proposed MIMO antennas and other reported works were done. The proposed MIMO antennas give a good maximum gain and are suitable for different narrow bands within the UWB such as wireless local area network (WLAN), worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX), aeronautical radio navigation (ARN), International Telecommunication Union 8-GHz (ITU-8), and X-Band applications with the ability to give high gain without the need to increase the radiated power of the transmitter antenna.
    Protecting secret messages from being hacked is a vital issue. In this paper research some standard symmetric and asymmetric methods of data cryptography will be studied and a comparative analysis of these methods will be provided. A... more
    Protecting secret messages from being hacked is a vital issue. In this paper research some standard symmetric and asymmetric methods of data cryptography will be studied and a comparative analysis of these methods will be provided. A simple, highly secure and efficient method of secret messages cryptography will be introduced; the method will use a character private key with variable length. Increasing the PK length will increase the key space making the method capable to resist any attack, the produced decrypted message will be very sensitive to the PK, any changes in the PK during the decryption phase will be considered as a hacking attempt by producing a damaged decrypted message. The proposed method will be implemented using various messages; the obtained results will be analyzed to prove the quality, security and efficiency achievements provided by the proposed method.
    LSB2 method of data steganography is a popular method of secret data hiding, this method is simple and capable of hiding long messages in a covering color image. LSB2 is not secure and it cannot protect the embedded secret message from... more
    LSB2 method of data steganography is a popular method of secret data hiding, this method is simple and capable of hiding long messages in a covering color image. LSB2 is not secure and it cannot protect the embedded secret message from being hacked. In this research paper a modified LSB2 method will be proposed, this method will solve the security issues by using a secret private key. This key will contain 8 components and will be used to rearrange the sequence of bits hiding in the covering image. The proposed method will deal with the hiding process by selecting the first bits of the message characters, the seconds and so on. An extra task will be added to LSB2 method; this task will perform the necessary substitution of the message binary matrix according to the contents pf the PK. The PK key be easily changed when the need arises without modifying the proposed algorithm. The proposed method will be implemented using various messages and various covering images. The obtained resu...
    Regression analysis, in statistic a modelling, is a set of statical processes that can be used to estimate the relationship between a dependent variable, commonly known as the outcome or response, and more independent variables generally... more
    Regression analysis, in statistic a modelling, is a set of statical processes that can be used to estimate the relationship between a dependent variable, commonly known as the outcome or response, and more independent variables generally called predictors of covariant. On the other hand, autoregression, which is based on regression equations, is a sequential model that uses time to predict the next step data from the previous step. Given the importance of accurate modelling and reliable predictions. in this paper we have analyzed the most popular methods used for data prediction. Nonlinear autoregressive methods were introduced, and then the machine deep learning approach was used to apply prediction based on a selected input data set. The mean square error was calculated for various artificial neural networks architecture to reach the optimal architecture, which minimized the error. Different artificial neural network (ANN) architectures were trained, tested, and validated using va...
    LSB2 method of data steganography is a popular method of secret data hiding, this method is simple and capable of hiding long messages in a covering color image. LSB2 is not secure and it cannot protect the embedded secret message from... more
    LSB2 method of data steganography is a popular method of secret data hiding, this method is simple and capable of hiding long messages in a covering color image. LSB2 is not secure and it cannot protect the embedded secret message from being hacked. In this research paper a modified LSB2 method will be proposed, this method will solve the security issues by using a secret private key. This key will contain 8 components and will be used to rearrange the sequence of bits hiding in the covering image. The proposed method will deal with the hiding process by selecting the first bits of the message characters, the seconds and so on. An extra task will be added to LSB2 method; this task will perform the necessary substitution of the message binary matrix according to the contents pf the PK. The PK key be easily changed when the need arises without modifying the proposed algorithm. The proposed method will be implemented using various messages and various covering images. The obtained results will be analyzed using various types of data analysis to prove the efficiency of data steganography. A quality analysis will be performed to prove the quality of the stego image, and speed analysis will be performed to prove the optimized throughputs provided by the proposed method.
    Salt and pepper noise is one of the most common types of noise that affects color and gray digital images, as this noise negatively affects the characteristics of the image and becomes blurred. And since the digital image is used in vital... more
    Salt and pepper noise is one of the most common types of noise that affects color and gray digital images, as this noise negatively affects the characteristics of the image and becomes blurred. And since the digital image is used in vital and important applications, it is necessary to provide an effective method that reduces the negative effects of noise. An easy and effective method will be presented that reduces the negative effects of salt and pepper noise, regardless of the noise ratio value in the digital image. In the proposed method, a set of windows will be used that is generated from the output of the affected image padding process, and these windows will be used to check the pixel is noise or not to be processed if this pixel is noise, using the specified window and applying the process of the median filter to this window. The proposed method will be implemented using various color and gray images, the quality parameters MSE and PSNR will be calculated. The obtained result...
    Increasing the message protection degree is a vital issue. In this paper research a new, simple, secure and efficient method of message cryptography will be proposed. The method will use two private keys for encryption decryption. The... more
    Increasing the message protection degree is a vital issue. In this paper research a new, simple, secure and efficient method of message cryptography will be proposed. The method will use two private keys for encryption decryption. The first key is to be generated from a secret image_key; the second key is to be generated using chaotic logistic map model. The two key will form a complicated complex key which cannot be hacked, thus will secure the transmitted messages from being hacked. The PK will be very sensitive to any changes: image_key, selected image color, message length and chaotic parameters. Any minor change in the decryption phase will generate new PK, and a corrupted damaged decrypted message will be produced. A set of analyses (sensitivity, quality and throughput) will be performed to prove the improvements and efficiency provides by the proposed method.
    Chaotic logistic map can be used to generate private key with different dimensions, this can be easily used to secure the process of data cryptography, required to encrypt-decrypt messages, images or audio files. Some of the... more
    Chaotic logistic map can be used to generate private key with different dimensions, this can be easily used to secure the process of data cryptography, required to encrypt-decrypt messages, images or audio files. Some of the encrypted-decrypted data (messages images) requires inter values keys, other like audio files require fraction values keys. In this research paper we will perform a detailed study of chaotic logistic map model to give some valuable recommendation of many aspects such as: the suitable range of the growth rate parameter, the suitable range of the initial generation, the sensitivity feature, the required time to generate private keys. It will be show how to generate 1D and 2D private keys with integer values and with fractional values, these key will be generated taking in mined the process of optimizing the generation time and the selected length of key which can optimize the process of cryptography.
    Many data cryptography methods are based on DES; these methods have a lot of disadvantages such as fixed block size, fixed private key length, multiple rounds and sometimes low level of security. In this research paper a method of secret... more
    Many data cryptography methods are based on DES; these methods have a lot of disadvantages such as fixed block size, fixed private key length, multiple rounds and sometimes low level of security. In this research paper a method of secret messages cryptography will be introduced. It will be shown that the proposed method can be easily used to apply data cryptography for short, medium and long messages keeping the values of the quality parameters (MSE, PSN and CC) acceptable. The method will use three image_key to generate the required private keys needed to calculate the number of rotation digits used in character rotation. The images are to be kept in secret and it is possible to change them any time without changing the operations used in the proposed method. The proposed method will be compared with DES to show the improvements provided by the proposed method.
    Color digital images are one of the most common types of digital data circulated through various social media, due to their use in important vital applications. The digital image may be confidential or of a personal nature, or it may... more
    Color digital images are one of the most common types of digital data circulated through various social media, due to their use in important vital applications. The digital image may be confidential or of a personal nature, or it may provide a carrier of confidential data, which makes providing a secure method of protection for it extremely important in order to protect the image from penetration and protect it from any side that has nothing to do with the image. In this research, a secure method will be presented to protect data, and this method will be multi-purpose, as it can be used to protect short and long secret messages and protect digital images regardless of their type or size. The high level and difficult to penetrate degree of protection will be achieved through the use of two colored images to generate two secret private keys to be used in the process of encrypting and decrypting confidential data. This method will be applied in order to prove the extent to which this m...
    Salt and pepper noise is one of the most common types of noise that affects color and gray digital images, as this noise negatively affects the characteristics of the image and becomes blurred. And since the digital image is used in vital... more
    Salt and pepper noise is one of the most common types of noise that affects color and gray digital images, as this noise negatively affects the characteristics of the image and becomes blurred. And since the digital image is used in vital and important applications, it is necessary to provide an effective method that reduces the negative effects of noise. An easy and effective method will be presented that reduces the negative effects of salt and pepper noise, regardless of the noise ratio value in the digital image. In the proposed method, a set of windows will be used that is generated from the output of the affected image padding process, and these windows will be used to check the pixel is noise or not to be processed if this pixel is noise, using the specified window and applying the process of the median filter to this window. The proposed method will be implemented using various color and gray images, the quality parameters MSE and PSNR will be calculated. The obtained results for the proposed method will be compared with the results of median, MDBUT MF, MDBPT GMF, AWMF; AAMF filters to show the enhancement of the proposed method in reducing the negative effects of salt and pepper noise.
    Increasing the message protection degree is a vital issue. In this paper research a new, simple, secure and efficient method of message cryptography will be proposed. The method will use two private keys for encryption decryption. The... more
    Increasing the message protection degree is a vital issue. In this paper research a new, simple, secure and efficient method of message cryptography will be proposed. The method will use two private keys for encryption decryption. The first key is to be generated from a secret image_key; the second key is to be generated using chaotic logistic map model. The two key will form a complicated complex key which cannot be hacked, thus will secure the transmitted messages from being hacked. The PK will be very sensitive to any changes: image_key, selected image color, message length and chaotic parameters. Any minor change in the decryption phase will generate new PK, and a corrupted damaged decrypted message will be produced. A set of analyses (sensitivity, quality and throughput) will be performed to prove the improvements and efficiency provides by the proposed method.
    Chaotic logistic map can be used to generate private key with different dimensions, this can be easily used to secure the process of data cryptography, required to encrypt-decrypt messages, images or audio files. Some of the... more
    Chaotic logistic map can be used to generate private key with different dimensions, this can be easily used to secure the process of data cryptography, required to encrypt-decrypt messages, images or audio files. Some of the encrypted-decrypted data (messages images) requires inter values keys, other like audio files require fraction values keys. In this research paper we will perform a detailed study of chaotic logistic map model to give some valuable recommendation of many aspects such as: the suitable range of the growth rate parameter, the suitable range of the initial generation, the sensitivity feature, the required time to generate private keys.
    It will be show how to generate 1D and 2D private keys with integer values and with fractional values, these key will be generated taking in mined the process of optimizing the generation time and the selected length of key which can optimize the process of cryptography.
    Many data cryptography methods are based on DES; these methods have a lot of disadvantages such as fixed block size, fixed private key length, multiple rounds and sometimes low level of security. In this research paper a method of secret... more
    Many data cryptography methods are based on DES; these methods have a lot of disadvantages such as fixed block size, fixed private key length, multiple rounds and sometimes low level of security. In this research paper a method of secret messages cryptography will be introduced. It will be shown that the proposed method can be easily used to apply data cryptography for short, medium and long messages keeping the values of the quality parameters (MSE, PSN and CC) acceptable. The method will use three image_key to generate the required private keys needed to calculate the number of rotation digits used in character rotation. The images are to be kept in secret and it is possible to change them any time without changing the operations used in the proposed method. The proposed method will be compared with DES to show the improvements provided by the proposed method.
    The purpose of steganography is to conceal the existence of the secret message in the holding image, thus making a message unreadable by a third party. Steganography is an important process due to many factors such as the confidentiality,... more
    The purpose of steganography is to conceal the existence of the secret message in the holding image, thus making a message unreadable by a third party. Steganography is an important process due to many factors such as the confidentiality, personality of the message to be sent from the sender to receiver through unsecure communication environment. In this paper we will introduce LSB2 method of data hiding in order to double the capacity of the holding image, by doubling the maximum message size which can be covered by the image. The proposed methodology of applying LSB2 will be implemented and tested in order to prove the efficiency of this method comparing with LSM method.
    Standard methods used in the encryption and decryption process are implemented to protect confidential data. These methods require many arithmetic and logical operations that negatively affect the performance of the encryption process. In... more
    Standard methods used in the encryption and decryption process are implemented to protect confidential data. These methods require many arithmetic and logical operations that negatively affect the performance of the encryption process. In addition, they use private keys of a specific length, in addition to the fixed length of the data block used in encryption, which may provide the possibility of penetration of these methods, thus decreasing the level of security. In this research paper, a new method of digital image cryptography is introduced. This method is based on using a color image as an image_key to generate a sophisticated matrix private key (MPK) that cannot be hacked. The proposed method uses an initial state to set the required parameters, with secret information needed to generate the private key. The data-block size is variable, and the complicity of the MPK depends on the number of selected rounds and the data-block size. The proposed method is appropriate for publicat...
    Color digital images are greatly affected by salt and pepper noise, which negatively affects the clarity of the image and its characteristics. In this paper research we will investigate various filter used to deal with salt and pepper... more
    Color digital images are greatly affected by salt and pepper noise, which negatively affects the clarity of the image and its characteristics. In this paper research we will investigate various filter used to deal with salt and pepper noise, a comparison will be done between these filters according to the calculated values of MSE and PSNR. An improvement procedure will be added to each filter to show how this improvement will enhance the values of MSE and PSNR and thus enhance the quality of the denoised image. Various noise densities will be experimented and it will be shown how median filter can be highly recommended to reduce the negative effects of salt and pepper noise.
    Least significant bit method is one of the most popular methods of data steganography, this method is very simple and provides good values for MSE and PSNR. LSB method is not secure enough and the embedded secret message can be easily... more
    Least significant bit method is one of the most popular methods of data steganography, this method is very simple and provides good values for MSE and PSNR. LSB method is not secure enough and the embedded secret message can be easily hacked by any person with any programming experience. To enhance the security level of LSB and to protect the secret message from being hacked and addition stage is recommended. This stage adds a necessary protection without affecting the quality parameters and the efficiency of LSB. The protection process is based on using a complex private key, this key is generated by sender depending on the block size and the selected image size and kept in secret to be used by the receiver, the private key can be changed or updated any time, when the needs arise.
    Least significant bit method is one of the most popular methods of data steganography, this method is very simple and provides good values for MSE and PSNR. LSB method is not secure enough and the embedded secret message can be easily... more
    Least significant bit method is one of the most popular methods of data steganography, this method is very simple and provides good values for MSE and PSNR. LSB method is not secure enough and the embedded secret message can be easily hacked by any person with any programming experience. To enhance the security level of LSB and to protect the secret message from being hacked and addition stage is recommended. This stage adds a necessary protection without affecting the quality parameters and the efficiency of LSB. The protection process is based on using a complex private key, this key is generated by sender depending on the block size and the selected image size and kept in secret to be used by the receiver, the private key can be changed or updated any time, when the needs arise.
    Multiple methods are used to hide secret messages in digital color images, and the most important and most common is the least significant bit (LSB) method. The LSB method is a known and exposed method, and anyone with programming... more
    Multiple methods are used to hide secret messages in digital color images, and the most important and most common is the least significant bit (LSB) method. The LSB method is a known and exposed method, and anyone with programming experience can retrieve the secret message embedded in the digital image. In this paper research we will add some enhancements to improve the security level of LSB method to protect the embedded secret message from being hacked. A simple method of secret message cryptography will be used to encrypt the secret message before bedding it using LSB method. The method will be based on using color image as an image_key; this image_key will be resized to generate the needed secret private key used to encrypt-decrypt secret message. The length and the contents of the generated private key will dynamically change depending on the message length and the selected image_key. The selected image_key will be kept in secret without transmission and will be known only by t...

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