Keerthi Raj
M TECH Student, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, GISAT Engineering College,Kottayam, Kerala, India
Baby John
HOD and professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, GISAT Engineering College, Kottayam, Kerala, India
Download PDFNew Technologies are appearing to provide a more efficient treatment of diseases or human deficiencies. Implantable medical devices constitute one example, these being devices with more computing, decision making and communication capabilities. Several research works in the computer security field have identified serious security and privacy risks in IMDs that could compromise the implant and even the health of patient who carries it. Implantable Medical Devices (IMDs), such as pacemakers, implantable cardiac defibrillators, neuro-stimulators, drug delivery systems perform a variety of health monitoring and therapeutic functions. Currently wireless communication capabilities have been embedded as an intrinsic part of many modern IMDs. The ECG based data encryption is designed with the ability to provide information-theoretically unbreakable encryption .Here ECG features are used to facilitate a key distribution. The random binary strings generated from ECG signals are directly used as key for encryption. The IMD encrypts its secret data with one key before transmission and after receiving the ciphertext, a programmer decrypts the secret data using another synchronously generated key.
Keywords: Encryption; Decryption; Ciphertext; Implantable medical devices (IMDs); Electrocardiogram (ECG).
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