Publications Internationales

2022
Noui L. Security limitations of Shamir’s secret sharing. Journal of Discrete Mathematical Sciences and Cryptography [Internet]. 2022 :1-13. Publisher's VersionAbstract

The security is so important for both storing and transmitting the digital data, the choice of parameters is critical for a security system, that is, a weak parameter will make the scheme very vulnerable to attacks, for example the use of supersingular curves or anomalous curves leads to weaknesses in elliptic curve cryptosystems, for RSA cryptosystem there are some attacks for low public exponent or small private exponent. In certain circumstances the secret sharing scheme is required to decentralize the risk. In the context of the security of secret sharing schemes, it is known that for the scheme of Shamir, an unqualified set of shares cannot leak any information about the secret. This paper aims to show that the well-known Shamir’s secret sharing is not always perfect and that the uniform randomization before sharing is insufficient to obtain a secure scheme. The second purpose of this paper is to give an explicit construction of weak polynomials for which the Shamir’s (k, n) threshold scheme is insecure in the sense that there exist a fewer than k shares which can reconstruct the secret. Particular attention is given to the scheme whose threshold is less than or equal to 6. It also showed that for certain threshold k, the secret can be calculated by a pair of shares with the probability of 1/2. Finally, in order to address the mentioned vulnerabilities, several classes of polynomials should be avoided.

2020
Noui O, Barkat A, Beloucif A. A Novel Image Encryption Approach Using Polar Decomposition and Orthogonal Matrices. Malaysian Journal of Computing and Applied Mathematics [Internet]. 2020;3 (1) :27-34. Publisher's VersionAbstract

Information security is one of the important issues in the information age, image encryption algorithms have been increasingly studied to guarantee the secure image transmission over the internet and through wireless networks. In this article, we propose a new approach for image encryption based on polar decomposition and orthogonal matrices. This scheme offers good confusion and diffusion qualities. The proposed algorithm is shown to be secure against important cryptanalytic attacks (statistical attacks, sensitivity dependence, differential attacks, brute force attacks...), theoretical analysis and computer simulations both confirm that it has a high security level.

Merzoug A, Adda A-P, Hadj-Said N. New chaotic cryptosystem for the image encryption. International Journal of Information and Computer Security [Internet]. 2020;12 (4) :450-463. Publisher's VersionAbstract

Recent researches of image encryption algorithms have been increasingly based on chaotic systems. This paper, a new image encryption scheme which employs. The idea is to associate the Hénon attractor and the logistics map, for the construction of a new secret key cryptosystem. We generate values through of the logistics map that will be added to the pixels of the plaintext image. This result modulo 256 will be permuted to another position of the encrypted image. The calculation of this permutation is deducted from the Hénon attractor, which is 2-dimensional, in order to have a significantly increasing the resistance to attacks. The proposed system has the advantage of bigger key space (about 180 bits); high security analysis such as key space analysis, statistical analysis and sensitivity analysis were carried out. The results demonstrate that the proposed system is highly efficient and a robust system.

2018
Beloucif A, Noui L. A lossless image encryption algorithm using matrix transformations and XOR operation. International Journal of Information and Communication Technology. 2018;13 (1).Abstract

Encryption is the way to ensure confidentiality of different data, digital images have special features as large data, bulky data, and strong correlation between pixels, which makes traditional encryption algorithms not suitable for image encryption. For this concern, we propose a novel lossless encryption scheme for digital images based on combination of matrix transformations and XOR operation. The numerical experimental results confirms that the proposed method achieves high security level against brute force attacks, statistical attacks and sensitivity analysis, moreover the suggested algorithm provides a good randomness properties, thus our method can be applied for image encryption and transmission in sensitive domains.

Delenda S, Noui L. A new steganography algorithm using polar decomposition. Information Security Journal: A Global Perspective . 2018;27 (3) :133-144.Abstract

Nowadays, the security of communication becomes very important with the rapid development of network technology. So, the transmission and distribution of the several digital information must be protected and secured against other users. Many steganography techniques have been proposed for embedding secret digital data in other digital data. In this article, we propose a new steganography algorithm based on a linear algebraic tool that is the polar decomposition (PD) for hiding secret data in an image. A host image is selected and divided into blocks of size 2 × 2, a PD is applied on each block, and the secret data are embedded in suitable blocks. Experimental results show that our proposed algorithm gives a higher hiding capacity, achieves good imperceptibility, and also provides a high degree of security against common types of attacks such as compression attack with quality 10%, gamma correction attack, and impulse noise attack.

Belferdi W, Behloul A, Noui L. A Bayer pattern-based fragile watermarking scheme for color image tamper detection and restoration. Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing. 2018;30 :pages1093–1112.Abstract

The security of multimedia documents becomes an urgent need, especially with the increasing image falsifications provided by the easy access and use of image manipulation tools. Hence, usage of image authentication techniques fulfills this need. In this paper, we propose an effective self-embedding fragile watermarking scheme for color images tamper detection and restoration. To decrease the capacity of insertion, a Bayer pattern is used to reduce the color host image into a gray-level watermark, to further improve the security Torus Automorphism permutation is used to scramble the gray-level watermark. In our algorithm, three copies of the watermark are inserted over three components (R, G, and B channels) of the color host image, providing a high probability of detection accuracy and recovery if one copy is destroyed. In the tamper detection process, a majority voting technique is used to determine the legitimacy of the image and recover the tampered regions after interpolating the extracted gray-level watermark. Using our proposed method, tampering rate can achieve 25% with a high visual quality of recovered image and PSNR values greater than 34 (dB). Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method affords three major properties: the high quality of watermarked image, the sensitive tamper detection and high localization accuracy besides the high-quality of recovered image.

2017
Chelgham M. ON CERTAIN INVARIANTS OF TRIVECTORS. Communications in Applied Analysis. 2017;21 (4) :595-606.Abstract

Let E be a n-dimensional vector space over a field k and ω a trivector of Λ3E. We can associate to the trivector ω several invariants either algebraic, arithmetic or geometric. In this paper we consider the following three invariants, the commutant C(ω), the complexity c(ω) and the automorphisms group Aut(ω). We show that there exists a vector space E and a trivector ω of Λ3E for which C(ω) is not a Frobenius algebra. We also show that the complexity c(ω) and the length l(ω) are equal. Finally, we prove the existence of a trivector ω such that Aut(ω) is not a FC-group.

Chelgham M, Kerada M, Noui L. ON CERTAIN INVARIANTS OF TRIVECTORS. Communications in Applied Analysis. 2017;21 (4) :595-606.Abstract

Let E be a n-dimensional vector space over a field k and ω a trivector of Λ3E. We can associate to the trivector ω several invariants either algebraic, arithmetic or geometric. In this paper we consider the following three invariants, the commutant C(ω), the complexity c(ω) and the automorphisms group Aut(ω). We show that there exists a vector space E and a trivector ω of Λ3E for which C(ω) is not a Frobenius algebra. We also show that the complexity c(ω) and the length l(ω) are equal. Finally, we prove the existence of a trivector ω such that Aut(ω) is not a FC-group.

Noui O, Beloucif A, Noui L. Secure image encryption scheme based on polar decomposition and chaotic map. International Journal of Information and Communication Technology. 2017;10 (4).Abstract

Security is an important issue in image storage and communication, encryption is one of the most common ways to ensure security. Recently, many schemes based on chaotic map have been proposed, but most of this method suffers from small key space, which makes them vulnerable to brute forces attacks. In this study, we design a highly robust novel symmetric image encryption scheme which offer good confusion and diffusion qualities, and a large key space to ensure popular security factor and to overcome the weaknesses of the state of the art encryption schemes. In the security analysis section, we prove that our scheme can resist most known attacks, such as cipher image only attack, known and chosen plain image attacks, differential and exhaustive attacks. It is shown in this paper that the use of polar decomposition with chaotic map can gives a fast and secures encryption.

2014
Noui O, Noui L. A ROBUST BLIND AND SECURE WATERMARKING SCHEME USING POSITIVE SEMI DEFINITE MATRICES. International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology (IJCSIT) . 2014;6 (5).Abstract

In the last decade the need for new and robust watermarking schemes has been increased because of the large illegal possession by not respecting the intellectual property rights in the multimedia in the internet. In this paper we introduce a novel blind robust watermarking scheme which exploits the positive circulant matrices in frequency domain which is the SVD, Different applications such as copyright protection, control and illicit distributions have been given. Simulation results indicate that the proposed method is robust against attacks as common digital processing: compression, blurring, dithering, printing and scanning, etc. and subterfuge attacks (collusion and forgery) also geometric distortions and transformations. Furthermore, good results of NC (normalized correlation) and PSNR (Peak signal-tonoise ratio) have been achieved while comparing with recent state of the art watermarking algorithms.