DICOM Security Features

LEADTOOLS Dicom Security features support the Secure Transport Connection Profiles as specified in part 15 of the DICOM 3 standard. This support includes the Basic TLS Secure Transport Connection Profile and ISCL Secure Transport Connection Profile to help integrators create DICOM applications with communication to be HIPPA compliant.

The LEADTOOLS DICOM Security features include:

• Computer or Entity Authentication

• Confidentiality

• Data Integrity.

• TLS using the Secure Hash Algorithm message authentication

• Authentication based on RSA certificates

• DES and triple DES (3DES) encryption mode

• "Three-pass-four-way" mutual authentication protocol support

• Ciphersuite negotiation.

• DES-CBC encryption (ISCL standard DES encryption in cipher block chaining mode)

• No encryption (ISCL standard)

• DESMAC (64 bit) and MD5 (128 bit) message authentication codes (ISCL)

• Support for the INTERNAL AUTHENTICATE command

• Support for the EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATE command

• Support for the GETCHALLENGE command

• The ability to send secured or unsecured messages, regardless of the encryption mode

• See also DICOM Digital Signatures

Supported platforms:

DICOM Security - C DLL

DICOM Security - C++ Class Library

DICOM Security - .NET and COM