International Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Computing (IJMSC)

IJMSC Vol. 5, No. 1, Jan. 2019

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REGULAR PAPERS

Reducing Hash Function Complexity: MD5 and SHA-1 as Examples

By Yousef Ali Al-Hammadi Mohamed Fadl Idris Fadl

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmsc.2019.01.01, Pub. Date: 8 Jan. 2019

Hash functions algorithms also called message digest algorithms, compress a message input of an arbitrary length, and produce an output with a fixed length that is distributed randomly.

Several hash algorithms exist such as Md5 and SHA1. These algorithms verify data integrity and restrict unauthorized data modification. However, they experience some complexities, especially when implemented in bitcoin mining, and low computation devices, in particularly IoT devices. As a remedy, this paper suggests a new compression function that reduces the complexity of the hash function algorithms such as MD5 and SHA-1. Also, proves that we can obtain the same results which are achieved by the original compression function.

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Low-Tech Steganography for Covert Operations

By Akash Nag

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmsc.2019.01.02, Pub. Date: 8 Jan. 2019

Text steganography, the art of concealing a secret text inside another innocuous text called the cover, is usually performed by insertion of whitespace, punctuation marks, misspelling words, or by arbitrarily capitalizing words or inserting synonyms, changing font-sizes & colors, etc. All of these have the disadvantage that they either arouse suspicion or are easily noticeable; and even lost if manually copied, i.e. handwritten. Furthermore, they are easily detectable by automated checkers. Still there are other methods which require a stego-key in order to decrypt the message. In covert intelligence operations, transmission of the stego-key may not be possible at all, more so when the message is urgent. Digital communications and Internet connectivity may also be lacking in certain situations, and the only mode of message passing available may be the exchange of handwritten text on paper; which effectively rules out text modifications like font-changes, whitespace insertion, etc. or any form of digital steganography like image/audio steganography. Finally, in almost all text-steganographic techniques, there is no provision to for the receiver to detect whether or not there is indeed any message embedded. This is very important in intelligence operations where a number of decoy text need to be sent with only one concealing the actual message. In this paper, we propose a new tool called STEGASSIST that can help the sender in generating the stego-text manually. It is a low-tech form of steganography that is especially suited to covert operations like espionage or under-cover journalism. In this method, the generated cover and the stego-text are identical, or in other words, there is no cover-text. Moreover, decryption does not require a stego-key, and the stego-text may be printed or even hand-written and sent via unreliable messengers, or published, without arousing any suspicion. Finally, the received stego-text can be checked by the receiver to detect whether or not there is any actual message embedded in it.

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Comparison of Fog Computing & Cloud Computing

By Vishal Kumar Asif Ali Laghari Shahid Karim Muhammad Shakir Ali Anwar Brohi

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmsc.2019.01.03, Pub. Date: 8 Jan. 2019

Fog computing is extending cloud computing by transferring computation on the edge of networks such as mobile collaborative devices or fixed nodes with built-in data storage, computing, and communication devices. Fog gives focal points of enhanced proficiency, better security, organize data transfer capacity sparing and versatility. With a specific end goal to give imperative subtle elements of Fog registering, we propose attributes of this region and separate from cloud computing research. Cloud computing is developing innovation which gives figuring assets to a specific assignment on pay per utilize. Cloud computing gives benefit three unique models and the cloud gives shoddy; midway oversaw assets for dependable registering for performing required errands. This paper gives correlation and attributes both Fog and cloud computing differs by outline, arrangement, administrations and devices for associations and clients. This comparison shows that Fog provides more flexible infrastructure and better service of data processing by consuming low network bandwidth instead of shifting whole data to the cloud.

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Deplyoing Advance Data Analytics Techniques with Conversational Analytics Outputs for Fraud Detection

By Sunil Kappal

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmsc.2019.01.04, Pub. Date: 8 Jan. 2019

This paper outlines the application of various classification methods and analytical techniques to identify a potential fraud. The aim of this document is to showcase the usefulness of such classification and analytical techniques for fraud detection. Considering the fact that there are hundreds of statistical methods and procedures to perform such analysis. In this paper, I would like to present a hybrid fraud detection method by using the Bayesian Classification technique to identify the risk group; followed by Benford's Law (The Law of First Digit) to detect a fraudulent transaction done by the identified risk group. Though this analysis focuses on the healthcare dataset, however, this technique can be replicated in any industry setup. Also, by adding the Voice of the Customer data to these classification and statistical methods, makes this analysis even more powerful and robust with improved accuracy.

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Machine Learning Applied to Cervical Cancer Data

By Dhwaani Parikh Vineet Menon

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmsc.2019.01.05, Pub. Date: 8 Jan. 2019

Cervical Cancer is one of the main reason of deaths in countries having a low capita income. It becomes quite complicated while examining a patient on basis of the result obtained from various doctor’s preferred test for any automated system to determine if the patient is positive with the cancer. There were 898 new cases of cervical cancer diagnosed in Australia in 2014. The risk of a woman being diagnosed by age 85 is 1 in 167. We will try to use machine learning algorithms and determine if the patient has cancer based on numerous factors available in the dataset. Predicting the presence of cervical cancer can help the diagnosis process to start at an earlier stage.

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A New Approach to the Design of a Finite Automaton that accepts Class of IPV4 Addresses

By P.Sri Ram Chandra K.S.Sravan M.S.Chakravarthy

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmsc.2019.01.06, Pub. Date: 8 Jan. 2019

Theory of computation is characterized as calculation through the conceptual machines. The three essential unique machines utilized are Finite Automata, Pushdown Automata and Turing Machine. In this paper we propose an outline of Finite Automata that accepts the class of IPV4 Addresses.

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