Development of a portable authentication module for security enhancement in tele-health applications

With the modern lifestyle becoming more and more complex and competitive in many aspects, people started to concern more about the privacy. And the confidentiality of medical data is one of the top concerns due to their sensitive nature. However, with challenges coming from high demand for both usab...

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Main Author: Zin, Ye Htike
Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-589462023-03-03T20:49:09Z Development of a portable authentication module for security enhancement in tele-health applications Zin, Ye Htike School of Computer Engineering A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) Centre for Multimedia and Network Technology Wang Ping DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Data::Data encryption With the modern lifestyle becoming more and more complex and competitive in many aspects, people started to concern more about the privacy. And the confidentiality of medical data is one of the top concerns due to their sensitive nature. However, with challenges coming from high demand for both usability and practicality, the privacy and confidentiality of medical data still remain as a formidable challenge. The objective of this project was to develop encryption modules for improving the security of the tele-health applications. This project focused on the development of encryption modules for MICAz-based and Android-Arduino-based sensor networks. For MICAz-based sensor networks, a hardware-based encryption module was developed and integrated into existing program for security improvement. For Android-Arduino-based sensor networks, a demo sensor network was developed together with a crypto library for Arduino and crypto class for the Android. The performances of the implemented security solutions were tested based on the time required for the process and the memory footprint. This report covers about the process of designing, developing and implementing the encryption modules as well as the various wireless security issues and hardware limitations which were taken into consideration. Further works can be done on data integrity verification and secure key distribution using public key cryptography to provide better security in tele-health applications. Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Engineering) 2014-04-16T04:51:45Z 2014-04-16T04:51:45Z 2014 2014 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/58946 en Nanyang Technological University 90 p. application/pdf
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Development of a portable authentication module for security enhancement in tele-health applications
description With the modern lifestyle becoming more and more complex and competitive in many aspects, people started to concern more about the privacy. And the confidentiality of medical data is one of the top concerns due to their sensitive nature. However, with challenges coming from high demand for both usability and practicality, the privacy and confidentiality of medical data still remain as a formidable challenge. The objective of this project was to develop encryption modules for improving the security of the tele-health applications. This project focused on the development of encryption modules for MICAz-based and Android-Arduino-based sensor networks. For MICAz-based sensor networks, a hardware-based encryption module was developed and integrated into existing program for security improvement. For Android-Arduino-based sensor networks, a demo sensor network was developed together with a crypto library for Arduino and crypto class for the Android. The performances of the implemented security solutions were tested based on the time required for the process and the memory footprint. This report covers about the process of designing, developing and implementing the encryption modules as well as the various wireless security issues and hardware limitations which were taken into consideration. Further works can be done on data integrity verification and secure key distribution using public key cryptography to provide better security in tele-health applications.
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title Development of a portable authentication module for security enhancement in tele-health applications
title_short Development of a portable authentication module for security enhancement in tele-health applications
title_full Development of a portable authentication module for security enhancement in tele-health applications
title_fullStr Development of a portable authentication module for security enhancement in tele-health applications
title_full_unstemmed Development of a portable authentication module for security enhancement in tele-health applications
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