introduction Share on Introduction to the Special Section on Security and Privacy of Medical Data for Smart Healthcare Editors: Amit Kumar Singh National Institute of Technology Patna, India National Institute of Technology Patna, IndiaSearch about this author , Jonathan Wu University of Windsor, Canada University of Windsor, CanadaSearch about this author , Ali Al-Haj Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan Princess Sumaya University for Technology, JordanSearch about this author , Calton Pu Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Georgia Institute of Technology, USASearch about this author Authors Info & Claims ACM Transactions on Internet TechnologyVolume 21Issue 3August 2021 Article No.: 53pp 1–4https://doi.org/10.1145/3460870Online:09 June 2021Publication History 3citation88DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations3Total Downloads88Last 12 Months88Last 6 weeks5 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteGet Access

Booming telemedicine applications makes it deemed necessary to provide security services for such applications. The algorithms proposed in this field can be grouped into three classes: watermarking‐based algorithms, crypto‐based algorithms and hybrid algorithms. In this study, the authors propose two crypto‐based algorithms capable of providing confidentiality, authenticity and integrity services to medical images exchanged in telemedicine applications. Strong cryptographic functions with internally generated symmetric keys and hash codes are used. The advanced encryption standard‐Galois counter mode is used with the whirlpool hash function to provide confidentiality and authenticity, and the elliptic curve digital signature algorithm is used to provide authenticity and integrity. The proposed algorithms are based on the digital imaging and communication in medicine (DICOM) standard; however, unlike the standard, the algorithms provide confidentiality, authenticity and integrity for the header data, as well as for the pixel data of the DICOM images. Effectiveness of the proposed algorithms is evaluated and demonstrated through extensive experimentation using a benchmark set of DICOM images.