Mehak Khurana

Work place: Department of Computer Science and Engineering & Information Technology, the NorthCap University Gurugram, 122002, India

E-mail: mehakkhurana@ncuindia.edu

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Research Interests: Hardware Security, Information Security, Information-Theoretic Security

Biography

Mehak Khurana is currently working as assistant professor in The NorthCap University in CSE & IT and has around 6 years of experience. She completed her M.Tech from USIT, GGSIPU in 2011 and B.Tech from GTBIT, GGSIPU in 2009. Her key areas of interest are Cryptography, Information Security and Cyber Security. She is lifetime member of Cryptology Research Society of India (CRSI).

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New Design of Tiny-Block Hybridization in AES

By Ritu Goyal Mehak Khurana

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijcnis.2017.09.06, Pub. Date: 8 Sep. 2017

The cryptographic algorithm designed to enhance security in real life which storage track and increase speed. This is kind of Feistel cipher which real use for the processes from assorted (mixed/orthogonal) algebraic collections. AES is combined with segmentation and validation algorithm to improve the performance of the security. Also, Key expansion is done to make the AES more secure. The processes are pipelined to increase the speed of AES. Our strategies that are hybrid method which work as change the original files (data) into encoded/encrypted type using AES and Tiny Encryption Process. The hybrid Procedure is considered for easiness and improved performance. The encryption pattern, data is encoded using tiny-AES-128 encryption process and authentication SHA that alterations it into an indecipherable cipher text. In process of encryption that encodes the information which consider a random text through the idea of cryptography and then data/text for the user. Our proposed approach get minimize computational time and memory utilization which simulated in MATLAB 2014Ra.

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Exploitation of PDF Reader Vulnerabilities using Metasploit Tool

By Ritu Choudhary Mehak Khurana

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2017.05.03, Pub. Date: 8 Sep. 2017

With the rising importance of the client-side execution scenario, attackers also shifted their focus to the browser based attacks, and compromises based on client devices. Though security experts have come up with various solutions to such attacks but, the attackers at the same time find new ways and technologies to deal with such situations. In this paper, we will discuss about the framework called Metasploit and then we shall define what exactly the Metasploit Framework is and how it can be used in various attack scenarios, this will be followed by a brief description of the terms used including; the exploits, its modules, payloads and meterpreter. Later, the uses of the product will be discussed. The basic purpose of metasploit framework is a module launching, the attacker is able to configure an exploit module and initiate it at a target system. If the exploit succeeds, the payload is executed on the system for which it is targeted and the attacker can interact with the victim machine using the shell created on the host machine. There are number of exploits and payload options available in metasploit framework. It is one of the most useful frameworks as far as the security is concerned. Lastly, we will discuss the method to attack the compromised systems by malicious PDF file using Metasploit Framework. Therefore, the main purpose of this paper is to impart a deep understanding of what Metasploit is and how it can be utilized when one needs to get the access of the local or the remote machine.

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Location Privacy using Homomorphic Encryption over Cloud

By Alisha Rohilla Mehak Khurana Latika Singh

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijcnis.2017.08.05, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2017

Homomorphism is a concept that allows one to perform arbitrary calculations on the cipher text. One of the application of this concept is securing one’s location while one uses location based services(LBS). In this paper I have discussed an approach to preserve mobile user’s location while accessing some location based service. The mobile user is trying to find the nearest locations of his interest using a mobile application. While doing so he wishes to keep his location coordinates a secret from the server. This is because, these days since servers may be maintained by a third party or a middleware might be involved. There is no scope of trusting anyone in this insecure world. Therefore, since in homomorphic encryption offers a way of making calculations on the cipher text thereby not revealing anything about the plaintext to the server, it becomes a more secure and safer choice for making a system which wants to keep the data protected from the server.
Problem Statement: Implementing k-nearest neighbour algorithm while preserving user location privacy using homomorphic encryption.

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Cryptographic Security using Various Encryption and Decryption Method

By Ritu Goyal Mehak Khurana

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmsc.2017.03.01, Pub. Date: 8 Jul. 2017

Fast development in universal computing and the growth in radio/wireless and mobile strategies have led to the extended use of application space for Radio Frequency (RFID), wireless sensors, Internet of things (IoT). There are numerous applications that are safe and privacy sensitive. The increase of the new equipments has permitted intellectual methods of linking physical strategies and the computing worlds through numerous network interfaces. Consequently, it is compulsory to take note of the essential risks subsequent from these communications. In Wireless systems, RFID and sensor linkages are extremely organized in soldierly, profitable and locomotive submissions. With the extensive use of the wireless and mobile devices, safety has therefore become a major concern. As a consequence, need for extremely protected encryption and decryption primitives in such devices is very important than before.

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Homomorphic Cryptosystem

By Alisha Rohilla Mehak Khurana Meena Kumari

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijcnis.2017.05.06, Pub. Date: 8 May 2017

In 2009 Craig Gentry proved that Fully Homomorphic Encryption can be applied and realized in principle. Homomorphism allowed us to perform arbitrary computations and calculations on encrypted data. With RSA being the first cryptosystem to hold homomorphic properties, there came other additive and multiplicative cryptosystems. However, fully Homomorphic encryption proved to be the ultimate cryptographic solution to ensure security of data on cloud. It enables processing and computing arbitrary functions over the encrypted data thereby reducing the probability of accessing the plain text.

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