Affiliations 

  • 1 Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, 94300, Kota Samarahan, Malaysia
  • 2 Department of Information Systems, College of Computer Engineering and Sciences, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, AlKharj, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. sk.khan@psau.edu.sa
  • 3 Department of Computer Science, College of Computer Engineering and Sciences, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia
  • 4 EIAS Lab, CCIS, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • 5 College of Computer Information Sciences, CCIS, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Sci Rep, 2024 Jun 15;14(1):13839.
PMID: 38879689 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-64419-4

Abstract

With the urge to secure and protect digital assets, there is a need to emphasize the immediacy of taking measures to ensure robust security due to the enhancement of cyber security. Different advanced methods, like encryption schemes, are vulnerable to putting constraints on attacks. To encode the digital data and utilize the unique properties of DNA, like stability and durability, synthetic DNA sequences are offered as a promising alternative by DNA encoding schemes. This study enlightens the exploration of DNA's potential for encoding in evolving cyber security. Based on the systematic literature review, this paper provides a discussion on the challenges, pros, and directions for future work. We analyzed the current trends and new innovations in methodology, security attacks, the implementation of tools, and different metrics to measure. Various tools, such as Mathematica, MATLAB, NIST test suite, and Coludsim, were employed to evaluate the performance of the proposed method and obtain results. By identifying the strengths and limitations of proposed methods, the study highlights research challenges and offers future scope for investigation.

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