ABSTRACT

To facilitate users to interact with and share information without difficulty and faultlessly across various networks and databases nationwide, a secure and trusted information-sharing environment has been recognized as an imperative requirement and to advance homeland security effort. The key incentive following this research is to build a secure and trusted information-sharing approach for government departments. This paper presents an efficient role and cooperation based information sharing approach for secure exchange of confidential and top secret information amongst security personnels and government departments within the national boundaries using public key cryptography. The devised approach makes use of cryptographic hash function; public key cryptosystem and a unique and complex mapping function for securely exchanging confidential information. Furthermore, the proposed approach facilitates privacy preserving information sharing with probable restrictions based on the rank of the security personnels. The developed role and cooperation based information sharing approach ensures secure and stream-lined information sharing among security personnels and government intelligence departments to avoid threatening activities. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed information sharing approach.