Encryption Algorithm for Securing Non-Disclosure Agreements in Outsourcing Offshore Software Maintenance

Ikram, Atif; Jalil, Masita Abdul; Ngah, Amir Bin; Iqbal, Nadeem; Kama, Nazri; Azmi, Azri; Khan, Ahmad Salman; Mahmood, Yasir; Alzayed, Asaad

doi:10.32604/cmc.2022.029609

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“…This concept has been covered in a lot of published literature. The literature can be enhanced with cloud and machine learning areas [13][14][15][16][17]. There exist different related studies which are close to the current research work.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 54%

Offshore Software Maintenance Outsourcing Process Model Validation: A Case Study Approach

Ikram¹,

Jalil²,

Ngah³

et al. 2023

Computers, Materials &Amp; Continua

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The successful execution and management of Offshore Software Maintenance Outsourcing (OSMO) can be very beneficial for OSMO vendors and the OSMO client. Although a lot of research on software outsourcing is going on, most of the existing literature on offshore outsourcing deals with the outsourcing of software development only. Several frameworks have been developed focusing on guiding software system managers concerning offshore software outsourcing. However, none of these studies delivered comprehensive guidelines for managing the whole process of OSMO. There is a considerable lack of research working on managing OSMO from a vendor's perspective. Therefore, to find the best practices for managing an OSMO process, it is necessary to further investigate such complex and multifaceted phenomena from the vendor's perspective. This study validated the preliminary OSMO process model via a case study research approach. The results showed that the OSMO process model is applicable in an industrial setting with few changes. The industrial data collected during the case study enabled this paper to extend the preliminary OSMO process model. The refined version of the OSMO process model has four major phases including (i) Project Assessment, (ii) SLA (iii) Execution, and (iv) Risk.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 54%

Offshore Software Maintenance Outsourcing Process Model Validation: A Case Study Approach

Ikram¹,

Jalil²,

Ngah³

et al. 2023

Computers, Materials &Amp; Continua

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“…O and E are Average of O and E elements respectively. For a well-hidden technique, it must be that the correlation coefficient is a little between neighboring bytes in the encrypted data [29].…”

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Partially Deep-Learning Encryption Technique

Mousa¹

2023

Computers, Materials &Amp; Continua

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The biggest problem facing the world is information security in the digital era. Information protection and integrity are hot topics at all times, so many techniques have been introduced to transmit and store data securely. The increase in computing power is increasing the number of security breaches and attacks at a higher rate than before on average. Thus, a number of existing security systems are at risk of hacking. This paper proposes an encryption technique called Partial Deep-Learning Encryption Technique (PD-LET) to achieve data security. PD-LET includes several stages for encoding and decoding digital data. Data preprocessing, convolution layer of standard deep learning algorithm, zigzag transformation, image partitioning, and encryption key are the main stages of PD-LET. Initially, the proposed technique converts digital data into the corresponding matrix and then applies encryption stages to it. The implementation of encrypting stages is frequently changed. This collaboration between deep learning and zigzag transformation techniques provides the best output result and transfers the original data into a completely undefined image which makes the proposed technique efficient and secure via data encryption. Moreover, its implementation phases are continuously changed during the encryption phase, which makes the data encryption technique more immune to some future attacks because breaking this technique needs to know all the information about the encryption technique. The security analysis of the obtained results shows that it is computationally impractical to break the proposed technique due to the large size and diversity of keys and PD-LET has achieved a reliable security system.

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“…Image cryptographers have produced tens of hundreds of image cryptosystems using the constructs of DNA [3], [4], automatons [5], mathematical figures [6], [7], non-disclosure agreements [8], puzzles [9], chess pieces [10], magic squares [11], [12], optics [13], [14] etc. For example the work [15] developed 2D Hénon-Sine map (2D-HSM) and applied this map in spawning the chaotic data.…”

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Digital Images Security Technique Using Hénon and Piecewise Linear Chaotic Maps

Hazzazi,

Iqbal,

Ikram

2023

IEEE Access

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The security of images has become a hot research area due to the widespread usage of the digital images all over the world. Literature review on chaotic image cryptography, on the other hand, indicates that many constructs have been employed for the realization of confusion operation while developing the image ciphers. To enhance the computational time, this study proposes a novel image cipher based on two chaotic maps and rectangle as a scrambler. As the given grayscale image is input, it is scrambled through dynamically generated rectangles. As a modus operandi, these rectangles are created in the given image with various dimensions and different location. The pixels lying on the boundary of the rectangle are rotated clockwise and anticlockwise with an arbitrary amount. These operations have been repeated a number of times to get the scrambling effects. The scrambled image has been further subjected to an XOR operation for embedding the diffusion effects in it. Two chaotic maps of Hénon and piecewise linear chaotic map have been used for the generation of random numbers. These numbers help in deciding the size, location, clockwise/anticlockwise movement of the pixels and the amount with which these pixels have to be rotated. The performance analysis and the machine simulation validate that the suggested cipher is sufficient enough to thwart the varied cryptanalytic attacks. In particular, we gained the computational speed of 0.5156 seconds and the information entropy of 7.9975. Besides, we posit that it has the ample prospects for its real world application.

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Encryption Algorithm for Securing Non-Disclosure Agreements in Outsourcing Offshore Software Maintenance

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

Offshore Software Maintenance Outsourcing Process Model Validation: A Case Study Approach

Offshore Software Maintenance Outsourcing Process Model Validation: A Case Study Approach

Partially Deep-Learning Encryption Technique

Digital Images Security Technique Using Hénon and Piecewise Linear Chaotic Maps

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