Osama S. Faragallah received a B.Sc. (Hons.), M.Sc., and Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from Menoufia University, Egypt, in 1997, 2002, and 2007 respectively. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University. He was a demonstrator from 1997 to 2002 and has been assistant lecturer from 2002 to 2007. Since 2007 he has been a member of the teaching staff of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Menoufia University. He is the co-author of about 100 papers in international journals, conference proceedings, and two textbooks. His current research interests include network security, cryptography, Internet security, multimedia security, image encryption, watermarking, steganography, data hiding, medical image processing, and chaos theory.
El-Sayed M. El-Rabaie (SM'92) was born in Sires Elian, Egypt, in 1953. He received a B.Sc. (Hons.) in radio communications from Tanta Universit
