Hybrid Cryptography with a One–Time Stamp to Secure Contact Tracing for COVID–19 Infection
The COVID-19 pandemic changed the lives of millions of citizens worldwide in the manner they live and work to the so-called new norm in social standards. In addition to the extraordinary effects on society, the pandemic created a range of unique circumstances associated with cybercrime that also aff...
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| author | El-Douh Ahmed Abdel-Rahim Lu Song Feng Elkouny Abdelatif A. Amein A.S. |
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| description | The COVID-19 pandemic changed the lives of millions of citizens worldwide in the manner they live and work to the so-called new norm in social standards. In addition to the extraordinary effects on society, the pandemic created a range of unique circumstances associated with cybercrime that also affected society and business. The anxiety due to the pandemic increased the probability of successful cyberattacks and as well as their number and range. For public health officials and communities, location tracking is an essential component in the efforts to combat the disease. The governments provide a lot of mobile apps to help health officials to trace the infected persons and contact them to aid and follow up on the health status, which requires an exchange of data in different forms. This paper presents the one-time stamp model as a new cryptography technique to secure different contact forms and protect the privacy of the infected person. The one-time stamp hybrid model consists of a combination of symmetric, asymmetric, and hashing cryptography in an entirely new way that is different from conventional and similar existing algorithms. Several experiments have been carried out to analyze and examine the proposed technique. Also, a comparison study has been made between our proposed technique and other state-of-the-art alternatives. Results show that the proposed one-time stamp model provides a high level of security for the encryption of sensitive data relative to other similar techniques with no extra computational cost besides faster processing time. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-87febadb5d254f04ab72b8995280403b2022-12-22T01:49:29ZengSciendoInternational Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science2083-84922022-03-0132113914610.34768/amcs-2022-0011Hybrid Cryptography with a One–Time Stamp to Secure Contact Tracing for COVID–19 InfectionEl-Douh Ahmed Abdel-Rahim0Lu Song Feng1Elkouny Abdelatif A.2Amein A.S.3School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology1037, Hongshan, Wuhan430074, ChinaSchool of Cyber Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology1037, Hongshan, Wuhan430074, ChinaFaculty of Information Systems and Computer Science October 6 UniversityAl Mehwar Al Markazi, Giza12572, EgyptFaculty of Information Systems and Computer Science October 6 UniversityAl Mehwar Al Markazi, Giza12572, EgyptThe COVID-19 pandemic changed the lives of millions of citizens worldwide in the manner they live and work to the so-called new norm in social standards. In addition to the extraordinary effects on society, the pandemic created a range of unique circumstances associated with cybercrime that also affected society and business. The anxiety due to the pandemic increased the probability of successful cyberattacks and as well as their number and range. For public health officials and communities, location tracking is an essential component in the efforts to combat the disease. The governments provide a lot of mobile apps to help health officials to trace the infected persons and contact them to aid and follow up on the health status, which requires an exchange of data in different forms. This paper presents the one-time stamp model as a new cryptography technique to secure different contact forms and protect the privacy of the infected person. The one-time stamp hybrid model consists of a combination of symmetric, asymmetric, and hashing cryptography in an entirely new way that is different from conventional and similar existing algorithms. Several experiments have been carried out to analyze and examine the proposed technique. Also, a comparison study has been made between our proposed technique and other state-of-the-art alternatives. Results show that the proposed one-time stamp model provides a high level of security for the encryption of sensitive data relative to other similar techniques with no extra computational cost besides faster processing time.https://doi.org/10.34768/amcs-2022-0011hybrid cryptographydigital signaturehashrsaaesasymmetric cryptographysymmetric cryptographycybersecuritycovid-19 |
| spellingShingle | El-Douh Ahmed Abdel-Rahim Lu Song Feng Elkouny Abdelatif A. Amein A.S. Hybrid Cryptography with a One–Time Stamp to Secure Contact Tracing for COVID–19 Infection International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science hybrid cryptography digital signature hash rsa aes asymmetric cryptography symmetric cryptography cybersecurity covid-19 |
| title | Hybrid Cryptography with a One–Time Stamp to Secure Contact Tracing for COVID–19 Infection |
| title_full | Hybrid Cryptography with a One–Time Stamp to Secure Contact Tracing for COVID–19 Infection |
| title_fullStr | Hybrid Cryptography with a One–Time Stamp to Secure Contact Tracing for COVID–19 Infection |
| title_full_unstemmed | Hybrid Cryptography with a One–Time Stamp to Secure Contact Tracing for COVID–19 Infection |
| title_short | Hybrid Cryptography with a One–Time Stamp to Secure Contact Tracing for COVID–19 Infection |
| title_sort | hybrid cryptography with a one time stamp to secure contact tracing for covid 19 infection |
| topic | hybrid cryptography digital signature hash rsa aes asymmetric cryptography symmetric cryptography cybersecurity covid-19 |
| url | https://doi.org/10.34768/amcs-2022-0011 |
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