Analysis of security problems in a medical image encryption system

  • Authors:
  • Gonzalo Alvarez;Shujun Li;Luis Hernandez

  • Affiliations:
  • Instituto de Física Aplicada, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Serrano 144, 28006 Madrid, Spain;Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China;Instituto de Física Aplicada, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Serrano 144, 28006 Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Computers in Biology and Medicine
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Recently, a new system for the secure transmission and efficient storage of medical images interleaved with patient information has been proposed in 2003 by Rajendra Acharya et al. In this paper, we analyse the security of this system, showing how to improve it to obtain a truly secure system.