Rizal Mohd Nor

Asif Bhat, Rizal Mohd Nor, Md Amiruzzaman et al.

Blokchain is used in a variety of applications where trustworthy computing is re-quired. Trade finance is one of these areas that would benefit immensely from a decentralized way of doing transactions. This paper presents the preliminary as-sessment of Accepire-BT, a software platform developed for the practice of col-laborative Trade Finance. The proposed solution is enforced by smart contracts using Solidity, the underlying programming language for the Ethereum block-chain. We evaluated the performance in the Rinkeby test network by using Remix and MetaMask. The results of the preliminary trial show that smart contracts take less than one minute per cycle. Also, we present a discussion about costs for us-ing the public Ethereum Rinkeby network.

Hassnain ul hassan, Rizal Mohd Nor, Md Amiruzzaman et al.

The Domain Name System (DNS) is essential for the Internet, giving a mechanism to resolve hostnames into Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. DNS is known as the world's largest distributed database that manages hostnames and Internet Protocol. By having the DNS, only simple names that can be easily memorized will be used and then the domain name system will map it into the numeric Internet Protocol addresses that are used by computers to communicate. This research aims to propose a model for the development of a private cloud infrastructure to host DNS. The cloud infrastructure will be created using the OpenStack software platform where each server will be hosted separately in a different virtual machine. Virtual network architecture will be created using the Software Defined Networking (SDN) approach and it will be secured using Firewall as a Service (FWaaS). By hosting DNS in private cloud infrastructure, the DNS servers will be out of reach by attackers which will prevent DNS attacks. Besides, available research had proven that the cloud is the best choice for DNS. A prototype had been implemented and evaluated for its efficiencies. The findings from the evaluation carried out shown a positive result.

Md Amiruzzaman, Rizal Mohd Nor

In this paper, a new steganographic method is presented that provides minimum distortion in the stego image. The proposed encoding algorithm focuses on DCT rounding error and optimizes that in a way to reduce distortion in the stego image, and the proposed algorithm produces less distortion than existing methods (e.g., F5 algorithm). The proposed method is based on DCT rounding error which helps to lower distortion and higher embedding capacity.