A New Message Encryption Method based on Amino Acid Sequences and Genetic Codes

Abstract

Abstract-As the use of technology is increasing rapidly, the amount of shared, sent, and received information is also increasing in the same way. As a result, this necessitates the need for finding techniques that can save and secure the information over the net. There are many methods that have been used to protect the information such as hiding information and encryption. In this study, we propose a new encryption method making use of amino acid and DNA sequences. In addition, several criteria including data size, key size and the probability of cracking are used to evaluate the proposed method. The results show that the performance of the proposed method is better than many common encryption methods, such as RSA in terms of evaluation criteria.

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“…Also the concept of key generation has been missing in their technique. Ahmed et al [ 19 ] had proposed an amino acids and DNA based encryption method. Their technique had shown better performances than classical algorithm in terms of time complexity.…”

“…Abdo et al [ 19 ] have also proposed a DNA encryption technique based on amino acids. Their technique has six bits codon structures.…”

New Data Hiding Approach Based on Biological Functionality of DNA Sequence

“…DNA is a good and resourceful medium for data security and transferring; it has great storage capacity and can outperform magnetic and optical disc for storage (Adleman, 1994;Bancroft, 2001). For that, many researchers have used DNA for the purpose of information hiding (Abdo et al, 2018;Artz, 2001;Peterson, 2001;Shimanovsky, Feng, & Potkonjak, 2003). DNA based information hiding is still attracting many research until it accomplishes these three criteria: 1-Invisibility, which hide information from attackers, 2-Capacity of hiding, which must have satisfactory size for message to hide, 3-Consistency, in which the medium must not be disturbed by hiding message (Hafeez et al, 2014).…”

“…Both cryptography and steganography are independent of each other but they can be used together side by side to the higher secure atmosphere for data transferring. Cryptography (Abdo, Sabry, & A., 2018) is a technique to encrypt data from the sender by converting a message to noisy data that is meaningless for the reader yet it can be recovered again to the original message. On the other hand, Steganography ) is a technique to hide a message in a medium without changing much of the medium to prevent suspiciousness from it.…”

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“…To overcome secure communication issues, two main different methods have come to exist and have been used extensively all over the world, which include cryptography and steganography (Wayner, 2009). Cryptography and steganography are used separately (Abdo, Sabry, and A., 2018;Hussain, Wahab, Idris, Ho, and Jung, 2018). Nonetheless, they can be combined to create more robust techniques, and this makes it harder to break the security (Gupta, Ankur Goyal and Bhushan, 2012).…”