A Novel Method to Safeguard Patients Details in IoT Healthcare Sector Using Encryption Techniques

Abstract

Internet has become a part of our daily life. Most of the communications or the transfer of the data across the globe is happening over the internet. With Internet of Things [IoT], the devices can transmit data with each other over the internet. As the internet play a crucial role, the security of the data also becomes important. Confidentiality is important in the healthcare sector where encryption plays an important role. There are many effective encryption algorithms available, but through this work we are proposing a novel method that aims at adding the randomness to the encryption algorithm. The random number generation technique used in this paper is Web Scraping, here the data is scraped from the web page where the data gets constantly updated which adds to the randomness. The random number generation module is added to the existing encryption algorithm and the encryption algorithm is tested on different file sizes to test the level of encryption.