A lossless DNA data hiding approach for data authenticity in mobile cloud based healthcare systems

Abstract

We present a lossless Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) sequence hiding method that can be used for ensuring authenticity of DNA sequence in the context of Mobile Cloud based healthcare systems. Hiding data within DNA sequence results in permanent information loss in DNA sequence. Therefore, providing DNA sequence authenticity using data hiding is challenging. Moreover, existing works on DNA data hiding require a reference DNA sequence data to retrieve hidden data. Hence, current methods are not blind approaches and inappropriate for ensuring authenticity of DNA sequence in the Mobile Cloud. The proposed method hides authentication data within DNA sequence, extracts authentication data, and reconstructs the DNA sequence without any loss of information. From there, our proposed approach guarantees DNA sequence authenticity and integrity in Mobile Cloud based healthcare systems. We present a security analysis of our method to show that the method is secured. We conduct several experiments to demonstrate the performance of our proposed method.