There has been a remarkable increase in the data exchange over web and the widespread use of digital media. As a result, multimedia data transfers also had a boost up. The mounting interest with reference to digital watermarking throughout the last decade is certainly due to the increase in the need of copyright protection of digital content. This is also enhanced due to commercial prospective....

Traditional methods for message authentication are based on the cryptographic verification of received data using some sort of a shared secret. While this task is not critical for traditional networks, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) may pay a high price for the gained protection – sensor nodes are forced to invest their already scarce resources in receiving a message and executing cryptographi...

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have been the focus of considerable recent research, allowing vehicles to broadcast messages to other vehicles and inform drivers regarding immediate route changes that can improve driving efficiency or avoid accidents. Because vehicles communicate using wireless channels, malicious attacks may occur during the transmission of messages. To ensure security, the...

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are a collection of wireless mobile devices with restricted broadcast range and resources. Communication is achieved by relaying data along appropriate routes that are dynamically discovered and maintained through collaboration between the nodes. Discovery of such routes is a major task, both from efficiency and security point of view. This paper presents a profi...

Securing data exchanges is a major preoccupation, and several techniques have been developed to reach that aim. The predominant model for such exchange is that which relies on trusted third-parties. Meanwhile, emerging technologies such as IoT are set to broadcast growing amounts of sensitive data, thereby making centralized architectures problematic for privacy and performance reasons and maki...

VANET provide facility for the vehicles on roads to communicate for driving safety. The basic idea is to allow arbitrary vehicles to broadcast ad hoc messages to other vehicles. However, this raises the issue of security and privacy. Here, we have described various existing solutions/protocols that are used in order to satisfy the security and privacy requirement of the vehicular ad hoc network...

This paper describes a Security Enhanced AODV routing protocol for wireless mesh networks (SEAODV). SEAODV employs Blom’s key pre-distribution scheme to compute the pairwise transient key (PTK) through the flooding of enhanced HELLO message and subsequently uses the established PTK to distribute the group transient key (GTK). PTK and GTK are used for authenticating unicast and broadcast routing...

Live streaming is one among many applications where data is continuously created and has to be quickly distributed among a large number of users. The peer-to-peer paradigm is thereby attracting interest with the prospect of overcoming scalability issues of more centralized approaches. Since data blocks travel along multiple (possibly malicious) peers, authenticating the origin of blocks becomes...

The recent progress in DNA sequencing will probably revolutionize the world of electronic. Hence, we went from DNA sequencing that only research centers could realize, to portable, tiny and inexpensive tools. So, it is likely that in a few years these DNA sequencers will be included in our smartphones. The purpose of this paper is to support this revolution, by using the DNA cryptography, hash ...

Wireless sensor networks will be widely deployed in the near future. While much research has focused on making these networks feasible and useful, security has received little attention. We present a suite of security protocols optimized for sensor networks: SPINS. SPINS has two secure building blocks: SNEP and μTESLA. SNEP includes: data confidentiality, two-party data authentication, and evid...