Secret key generation based Short Tandem Repeat DNA

In a daily basis, scientists seek to develop more advanced security solutions to be applied into IoT environment using in-hand technologies. Indeed, many approaches have been proposed to respond to this scarcity, and many other exertions have been spent. One promising consequence is DNA computing, which has significantly promising capabilities over traditional electronic computers. As biological characteristics have always been a source of inspiration for scientists in developing complex computing systems and technologies.DNA is a molecule in organism`s cells. All organisms' DNA are similar in about 99.9%. In this paper, a new data encryption technique has been inspired by DNA characteristics in which the encryption key transmission is based on STR DNA fingerprint. The proposed technique will be applied in a healthcare environment. The STR-DNA based key generation and transmission technique will be used to encrypt the message before being transmitted over the IoT environment. The experimental results showed that the proposed technique has similar characteristics as the RSA algorithm added the feature of applying the mechanism on biological environments.