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Healthcare with datacare—a triangular DNA security

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One of the fastest-growing industries in recent years has been e-Healthcare. Many cyberattacks and threats against patient confidentiality exist in electronic health records (EHRs). To shield EHRs from data breaches and to secure the data with integrity, DNA subsequences, SHA-256, and Hyper Chaotic Multi Attractors Chen System (HCMACS) are proposed for effective medical image encryption. A combined HCMACS produces a pseudorandom key sequence to strengthen its resiliency. The two significant advantages of the proposed technique are integrity and robustness, where the secret keys are susceptible to initial states determined by the original image’s hash value. Furthermore, the encrypted image is uploaded to a cloud-based service where an authorised user can retrieve the original data. Finally the digital medical images have confidentiality, integrity and availability (CIA). The outcomes of the DNA-based cryptosystem for medical images are validated with several analyses and are efficiently defended against statistical, differential, and chosen-plaintext attacks.

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The authors thank the Department of Computer Science Engineering at Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Hyderabad. Also, thank the Department of Science & Technology, New Delhi, for the FIST funding (SR/FST/ET-I/2018/221(C)), the Intrusion Detection Lab at the School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, SASTRA Deemed University, for providing infrastructural support to carry out this research work.

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  1. Department of CSE, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Hyderabad, 500075, Telangana, India

    S. Aashiq Banu

  2. Department of Management and Marketing, College of Business Administration, University of Bahrain, Zallaq, Kingdom of Bahrain

    Adel Ismail Al-Alawi

  3. Department of ECE, Saranathan College of Engineering, 620012, Thiruchirapalli, India

    M. Padmaa

  4. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Thandalam, Chennai, 602105 , India

    P. Shanmuga Priya

  5. School of Electronics Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, 632 014 , India

    V. Thanikaiselvan

  6. School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur, 613 401, India

    Rengarajan Amirtharajan

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Banu, S.A., Al-Alawi, A.I., Padmaa, M. et al. Healthcare with datacare—a triangular DNA security. Multimed Tools Appl 83, 21153–21170 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-16303-y

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