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Computer security depends mainly on passwords to protect human users from attackers. Therefore, manual and alphanumerical passwords are the most frequent type of computer authentication. However, creating these passwords has significant drawbacks. For example, users often tend to choose passwords based on personal information so that they can be memorable and therefore weak and guessable. In contrast, it is often difficult to remember if the password is difficult to guess. We propose an intelligent security model for password generation and estimation to address these problems using the ensemble learning approach and hand gesture features. This paper proposes two intelligent stages: the first is the password generation stage based on the ensemble learning approach and the proposed S-Box. The second is the password strength estimation stage, also based on the ensemble learning approach. Four well-known classifiers are used: Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest Tree (RFT), and AdaBoost applied on two datasets: MNIST images dataset and password strength dataset. The experimental results showed that the hand gesture and password strength classification processes accurately performed at 99% in AUC, Accuracy, F1-measures, Precision, and Recall. As a result, the extracted features of hand gestures will directly impact the complexity of generated passwords, which are very strong, hard to guess, and memorable.

Anticancer peptides (ACPs) are short protein sequences; they perform functions like some hormones and enzymes inside the body. The role of any protein or peptide is related to its structure and the sequence of amino acids that make up it. There are 20 types of amino acids in humans, and each of them has a particular characteristic according to its chemical structure. Current machine and deep learning models have been used to classify ACPs problems. However, these models have neglected Amino Acid Repeats (AARs) that play an essential role in the function and structure of peptides. Therefore, in this paper, ACPs offer a promising route for novel anticancer peptides by extracting AARs based on N-Grams and k-mers using two peptides’ datasets. These datasets pointed to breast and lung cancer cells assembled and curated manually from the Cancer Peptide and Protein Database (CancerPPD). Every dataset consists of a sequence of peptides and their synthesis and anticancer activity on breast and lung cancer cell lines. Five different feature selection methods were used in this paper to improve classification performance and reduce the experimental costs. After that, ACPs were classified using four classifiers, namely AdaBoost, Random Forest Tree (RFT), Multi-class Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP). These classifiers were evaluated by applying five well-known evaluation metrics. Experimental results showed that the breast and lung ACPs classification process provided an accurate performance that reached 89.25% and 92.56%, respectively. In terms of AUC, it reached 95.35% and 96.92% for both breast and lung ACPs, respectively. The proposed classifiers performed competently somewhat equally in AUC, accuracy, precision, F-measures, and recall, except for Multi-class SVM-based feature selection, which showed superior performance. As a result, this paper significantly improved the predictive performance that can effectively distinguish ACPs as virtual inactive, experimental inactive, moderately active, and very active.