Blowfish Encryption Algorithm Research Articles

Double Layer Image Security System using Encryption and Steganography

The image security on internet transfers is the concern of the hour as the breaching attacks into the image databases are rising every year. The hackers take advantage of the stolen personal and important images to fulfill their dangerous and unethical intentions. The image data theft can be used to defame a person on the internet by posting the illegal and unacceptable images of that person (internet user). Hence the images transfers have to be secure to ensure the privacy of the user’s image data. In this research, a number of image security systems have been studied to evaluate the research gap. Majority of the existing image security systems are not up to date to protect against the latest breaching attacks. So, we have proposed an effective and robust image security framework particularly designed for the images. The proposed has been designed and implemented using MATLAB. In this research, a hybrid image security framework has been proposed to overcome the problem stated earlier, which will be implemented by combining various techniques together to achieve the image security goal. The techniques included in the combination would beimage compression, cryptography and steganography. DWT compression has been used, because it is a stronger compression algorithm. The steganographed image would be compressed to reduce its size. Blowfish encryption algorithm would be used for the encryption purposes. It offers maximum throughput (faster) and also energy efficient. Compressed image would be encrypted to enhance the image security. Real image will be hidden into another image. A cluster based steganographic technique will be used. Real image and face image would be analyzed, and the real image would be embedded in those areas of face image, where color schemes of the real image and face image would be most similar. Kmeans or Hierarchical clustering would be used as a clustering technique. An all new comparative analysis technique would be applied to make the comparison between real image and base image on the basis of color patterns.

Improving Authentication and Authorization for Identity Based Cloud Environment Using OAUTH with Fuzzy Based Blowfish Algorithm

Cloud computing involves group of remote servers, software, networks, centralized storage, which allows different number of online services and resources to virtualized business environment, individual users and educational institutions. But the main challenges are security between the user information, trust between the user and service provider. In business environment, Private Cloud Model (PCM) provides tight security of the application data even though in cloud, security issues such as authorization, confidentiality still exist. Therefore, the paper focuses on security, authentication and authorization using OAuth protocol. OAuth protocol authorizes the user while accessing the data from one application via another application for managing identities. OAuth HTTP based protocol is used for authorization and security is implemented using Fuzzy based blowfish encryption algorithm (FBFE). In OAuth, authorization is granted in four different ways like authorization code, implicit, resource owner password credential and client credential. OAuth establishes authorization between application and API user using token and redirect URI.

АНАЛІЗ ЧАСОВИХ ПОКАЗНИКІВ ШИФРУВАННЯ/ДЕШИФРУВАННЯ ФАЙЛІВ БАЗ ДАНИХ МЕДИЧНИХ ІНФОРМАЦІЙНИХ СИСТЕМ

<p>In the article on the specific example the results of studies medical information systems databases files encryption/decryptiontime have been presented. The present studies are performed using the developed three fundamentally different algorithms, that include Blowfish encryption algorithm as a part.</p><p>The studies were performed using a specially developed (in the programming environment Delphi 7) computer program "Generators" (author's title) and two computers having obsolete configuration and assembled with the Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 processor and the DualCore Intel Pentium E2180 processor.</p><p>The studies have established that the encryption/decryption of files using the first developed algorithm during execution of which multiple access to the hard drive for reading/writing of 8-byte information blocks of is implemented, takes much longer time (about 10 times) than the encryption/decryption using the second and third algorithms during execution of which access to the hard drive for a file reading/writing is performed once.</p>

Studying Security Issues in HPC (Super Computer) Environment

HPC has evolved from being a buzzword to becoming one of the most exciting areas in the field of Information Technology & Computer Science. Organizations are increasingly looking to HPC to improve operational efficiency, reduce expenditure over time and improve the computational power. Using Super Computers hosted on a particular location and connected with the Internet can reduce the installation of computational power and making it centralise. However, centralise system has some advantages and disadvantages over the distributed system, but we avoid discussing those issues and focusing more on the HPC systems. HPC can also be used to build web and file server and for applications of cloud computing. Due to cluster type architecture and high processing speed, we have experienced that it works far better and handles the loads in much more efficient manner then series of desktop with normal configuration connected together for application of cloud computing and network applications. In this paper we have discussed on issues re lated to security of data and information on the context of HPC. Data and information are vanurable to security and safety. It is the purpose of this paper to present some practical security issues related to High Performance Computing Environment. Based on our observation on security requirements of HPC we have discuss some existing security technologies used in HPC. When observed to various literatures, we found that the existing techniques are not enough. We have discussed, some of the key issues relating to this context. Lastly, we have made an approach to find an appropriate solution using Blowfish encryption and decryption algorithm. We hope that, with our proposed concepts, HPC applications to perform better and in safer way. At the end, we have proposed a modified blow fish algorithmic technique by attaching random number generator algorithm to make the encryption decryption technique more appropriate for our own HPC environment.

Superiority of Blowfish Algorithm in Wireless Networks

Encryption algorithm plays a crucial role in information security which guarantees the recent growing internet and network applications. They are used to secure the data in wireless networks against malicious attacks but securing data also consumes resources such as C.P.U time, Memory, battery power, encryption time etc. In this paper, we evaluated the performance of four symmetric key encryption algorithms; AES, DES, 3DES and Blowfish which commonly used for data encryption in terms of encryption time, decryption time & throughput. In this research, we evaluated encryption time, decryption time and throughput for all four encryption algorithms in Visual Basic’s environment using large size text data (.doc). Experimental results show that Blowfish encryption algorithm may be more suitable for wireless networks. Study reveals that Blowfish gives better performance than AES, DES and 3DES in terms of encryption time, decryption time & throughput.