TL;DR: In this paper, a block cipher called PRINCE is proposed that allows encryption of data within one clock cycle with a very competitive chip area compared to known solutions. But it does not have the α-reflection property, which holds that decryption for one key corresponds to encryption with another key.
Abstract: This paper presents a block cipher that is optimized with respect to latency when implemented in hardware. Such ciphers are desirable for many future pervasive applications with real-time security needs. Our cipher, named PRINCE, allows encryption of data within one clock cycle with a very competitive chip area compared to known solutions. The fully unrolled fashion in which such algorithms need to be implemented calls for innovative design choices. The number of rounds must be moderate and rounds must have short delays in hardware. At the same time, the traditional need that a cipher has to be iterative with very similar round functions disappears, an observation that increases the design space for the algorithm. An important further requirement is that realizing decryption and encryption results in minimum additional costs. PRINCE is designed in such a way that the overhead for decryption on top of encryption is negligible. More precisely for our cipher it holds that decryption for one key corresponds to encryption with a related key. This property we refer to as α-reflection is of independent interest and we prove its soundness against generic attacks.
TL;DR: This paper presents a block cipher that is optimized with respect to latency when implemented in hardware and holds that decryption for one key corresponds to encryption with a related key, which is of independent interest and proves its soundness against generic attacks.
Abstract: This paper presents a block cipher that is optimized with respect to latency when implemented in hardware. Such ciphers are desirable for many future pervasive applications with real-time security needs. Our cipher, named PRINCE, allows encryption of data within one clock cycle with a very competitive chip area compared to known solutions. The fully unrolled fashion in which such algorithms need to be implemented calls for innovative design choices. The number of rounds must be moderate and rounds must have short delays in hardware. At the same time, the traditional need that a cipher has to be iterative with very similar round functions disappears, an observation that increases the design space for the algorithm. An important further requirement is that realizing decryption and encryption results in minimum additional costs. PRINCE is designed in such a way that the overhead for decryption on top of encryption is negligible. More precisely for our cipher it holds that decryption for one key corresponds to encryption with a related key. This property we refer to as α-reflection is of independent interest and we prove its soundness against generic attacks.
TL;DR: The two-dimensional logistic map with complicated basin structures and attractors are first used for image encryption and the proposed method adopts the classic framework of the permutation-substitution network in cryptography to ensure both confusion and diffusion properties for a secure cipher.
Abstract: Chaos maps and chaotic systems have been proved to be useful and effective for cryptography. In our study, the two-dimensional logistic map with complicated basin structures and attractors are first used for image encryption. The proposed method adopts the classic framework of the permutation-substitution network in cryptography and thus ensures both confusion and diffusion properties for a secure cipher. The proposed method is able to encrypt an intelligible image into a random-like one from the statistical point of view and the human visual system point of view. Extensive simulation results using test images from the USC-SIPI image database demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method. Security analysis results of using both the conventional and the most recent tests show that the encryption quality of the proposed method reaches or excels the current state-of-the-art methods. Similar encryption ideas can be applied to digital data in other formats (e.g., digital audio and video). We also publish the cipher MATLAB open-source-code under the web page https://sites.google.com/site/tuftsyuewu/source-code.
TL;DR: It is shown that the quantum version of the Even-Mansour cipher is insecure, that is, a key can be found in polynomial time in the key length, an example that the Quantum version of a secure classical cipher is not always secure.
Abstract: Quantum cryptography such as BB84 is a quantum protocol for sharing classical information, but is not a scheme for encrypting quantum information itself. This paper considers that quantum information is encrypted with the quantum circuit of the Even-Mansour cipher. It has been proved that breaking the Even-Mansour cipher requires exponential time in the key length using any classical algorithm. This paper shows that the quantum version of the Even-Mansour cipher is insecure, that is, a key can be found in polynomial time in the key length. This is an example that the quantum version of a secure classical cipher is not always secure.
TL;DR: A CUDA implementation of Electronic Codebook (ECB) mode encoding process and Cipher Feedback (CBC) mode decoding process on GPU to improve the efficiency of AES algorithm.
Abstract: GPU is continuing its trend of vastly outperforming CPU while becoming more general purpose. In order to improve the efficiency of AES algorithm, this paper proposed a CUDA implementation of Electronic Codebook (ECB) mode encoding process and Cipher Feedback (CBC) mode decoding process on GPU. In our implementation, the frequently accessed T-boxes were allocated on on-chip shared memory and the granularity that one thread handles a 16 Bytes AES block was adopted. Finally, we achieved the highest performance of around 60 Gbps throughput on NVIDIA Tesla C2050 GPU, which runs up to 50 times faster than a sequential implementation based on Intel Core i7-920 2.66GHz CPU. In addition, we discussed the optimization under some practical application scenarios such as overlapping GPU processing and data transfer.
TL;DR: In this article, Even and Mansour's Even-Mansour construction was extended to a provable security setting, where an attacker needs to make at least 22n/3 queries to the underlying permutations to distinguish the construction from random.
Abstract: This paper considers--for the first time--the concept of key-alternating ciphers in a provable security setting. Key-alternating ciphers can be seen as a generalization of a construction proposed by Even and Mansour in 1991. This construction builds a block cipher PX from an n-bit permutation P and two n-bit keys k0 and k1, setting PX{k0,k1} (x) = k1 ⊕ P(x ⊕ k0). Here we consider a (natural) extension of the Even-Mansour construction with t permutations P1,…,Pt and t+1 keys, k0,…, kt. We demonstrate in a formal model that such a cipher is secure in the sense that an attacker needs to make at least 22n/3 queries to the underlying permutations to be able to distinguish the construction from random. We argue further that the bound is tight for t=2 but there is a gap in the bounds for t>2, which is left as an open and interesting problem. Additionally, in terms of statistical attacks, we show that the distribution of Fourier coefficients for the cipher over all keys is close to ideal. Lastly, we define a practical instance of the construction with t=2 using AES referred to as AES2. Any attack on AES2 with complexity below 285 will have to make use of AES with a fixed known key in a non-black box manner. However, we conjecture its security is 2128.
TL;DR: This paper analyzes the security of the iterated Even-Mansour cipher, a very simple and natural construction of a blockcipher in the random permutation model, and gives asymptotically tight security proofs for two types of adversaries.
Abstract: We analyze the security of the iterated Even-Mansour cipher (a.k.a. key-alternating cipher), a very simple and natural construction of a blockcipher in the random permutation model. This construction, first considered by Even and Mansour (J. Cryptology, 1997) with a single permutation, was recently generalized to use t permutations in the work of Bogdanov et al. (EUROCRYPT 2012). They proved that the construction is secure up to $ \mathcal{O} (N^{2/3})$ queries (where N is the domain size of the permutations), as soon as the number t of rounds is 2 or more. This is tight for t=2, however in the general case the best known attack requires Ω(Nt/(t+1)) queries. In this paper, we give asymptotically tight security proofs for two types of adversaries:
1 for non-adaptive chosen-plaintext adversaries, we prove that the construction achieves an optimal security bound of $ \mathcal{O} (N^{t/(t+1)})$ queries;
2 for adaptive chosen-plaintext and ciphertext adversaries, we prove that the construction achieves security up to $ \mathcal{O} (N^{t/(t+2)})$ queries (for t even). This improves previous results for t≥6.
Our proof crucially relies on the use of a coupling to upper-bound the statistical distance of the outputs of the iterated Even-Mansour cipher to the uniform distribution.
TL;DR: In this article, the idea of infective computation is used to prevent the propagation of faults in block ciphers. But the authors do not address the problem of how to ensure that a fault injected into a cipher, dummy or redundant round will infect the ciphertext such that an attacker cannot derive any information on the secret key being used.
Abstract: Implementation attacks pose a serious threat for the security of cryptographic devices and there are a multitude of countermeasures that are used to prevent them. Two countermeasures used in implementations of block ciphers to increase the complexity of such attacks are the use of dummy rounds and redundant computation with consistency checks to prevent fault attacks. In this paper we present several countermeasures based on the idea of infective computation. Our countermeasures ensure that a fault injected into a cipher, dummy, or redundant round will infect the ciphertext such that an attacker cannot derive any information on the secret key being used. This has one clear advantage: the propagation of faults prevents an attacker from being able to conduct any fault analysis on any corrupted ciphertexts. As a consequence, there is no need for any test at the end of an implementation to determine if a fault has been injected and a ciphertext can always be returned.
TL;DR: The results of several experiments show that the proposed algorithm for image cryptosystems provides an efficient and secure approach to real-time image encryption and transmission.
Abstract: We propose a new and efficient method to develop secure image-encryption techniques. The new algorithm combines two techniques: encryption and compression. In this technique, a wavelet transform was used to decompose the image and decorrelate its pixels into approximation and detail components. The more important component (the approximation component) is encrypted using a chaos-based encryption algorithm. This algorithm produces a cipher of the test image that has good diffusion and confusion properties. The remaining components (the detail components) are compressed using a wavelet transform. This proposed algorithm was verified to provide a high security level. A complete specification for the new algorithm is provided. Several test images are used to demonstrate the validity of the proposed algorithm. The results of several experiments show that the proposed algorithm for image cryptosystems provides an efficient and secure approach to real-time image encryption and transmission.
TL;DR: In this paper, Even and Mansour's Even-Mansour Ciphers were extended to a provable security setting, where an attacker needs to make at least 2 2n/3 queries to the underlying permutations to distinguish the construction from random.
Abstract: This paper considers—for the first time—the concept of key- alternating ciphers in a provable security setting. Key-alternating ciphers can be seen as a generalization of a construction proposed by Even and Mansour in 1991. This construction builds a block cipher PX from an n-bit permutation P and two n-bit keys k0 and k1, setting PXk0,k1 (x )= k1 ⊕ P (x ⊕ k0). Here we consider a (natural) extension of the Even- Mansour construction with t permutations P1,...,Pt and t +1 keys, k0,...,kt. We demonstrate in a formal model that such a cipher is secure in the sense that an attacker needs to make at least 2 2n/3 queries to the underlying permutations to be able to distinguish the construction from random. We argue further that the bound is tight for t = 2 but there is a gap in the bounds for t> 2, which is left as an open and interesting problem. Additionally, in terms of statistical attacks, we show that the distribution of Fourier coefficients for the cipher over all keys is close to ideal. Lastly, we define a practical instance of the construction with t =2 using AES referred to as AES 2 . Any attack on AES 2 with complexity
TL;DR: Results of the various types of analyses are showing that the proposed image encryption technique is more secure and fast and hence suitable for the real-time applications.
Abstract: In this paper, a novel secure cryptosystem is proposed for direct encryption of color images, based on transformed logistic maps. The proposed cipher provides good confusion and diffusion properties that ensures extremely high security due to the mixing of colors pixels. The encryption scheme makes use of six odd secret keys and chaotic keys for each operation. The operations include initial permutation of all pixels with six odd keys, nonlinear diffusion using first chaotic key, xoring the second chaotic key with resultant values and zig-zag diffusion with third chaotic key. The proposed scheme supports key sizes ranging from 192 to 400 bits. The security and performance of the proposed image encryption technique have been analysed thoroughly using statistical analysis, key sensitivity analysis, differential analysis, key space analysis, entropy analysis and performance analysis. Results of the various types of analyses are showing that the proposed image encryption technique is more secure and fast and hence suitable for the real-time applications.
TL;DR: In this paper, the EvenMansour construction with t permutations P1,..., Pt and t + 1 keys, k0, k1, k2, k3, k4, k5, k6, k7, k8, k9, k10, k11, k12, k13, k14, k15, k16, k17, k18, k19, k20, k21, k22, k23, k24, k25, k26, k27, k28,
Abstract: This paper considers—for the first time—the concept of keyalternating ciphers in a provable security setting. Key-alternating ciphers can be seen as a generalization of a construction proposed by Even and Mansour in 1991. This construction builds a block cipher PX from an n-bit permutation P and two n-bit keys k0 and k1, setting PXk0,k1(x) = k1 ⊕ P (x ⊕ k0). Here we consider a (natural) extension of the EvenMansour construction with t permutations P1, . . . , Pt and t + 1 keys, k0, . . . , kt. We demonstrate in a formal model that such a cipher is secure in the sense that an attacker needs to make at least 2 queries to the underlying permutations to be able to distinguish the construction from random. We argue further that the bound is tight for t = 2 but there is a gap in the bounds for t > 2, which is left as an open and interesting problem. Additionally, in terms of statistical attacks, we show that the distribution of Fourier coefficients for the cipher over all keys is close to ideal. Lastly, we define a practical instance of the construction with t = 2 using AES referred to as AES. Any attack on AES with complexity below 2 will have to make use of AES with a fixed known key in a non-black box manner. However, we conjecture its security is 2.
TL;DR: This work designs a block cipher that fits well the masking constraints of a proven masking scheme, and chooses an adequate S-box, which is non-bijective.
Abstract: Many papers deal with the problem of constructing an efficient masking scheme for existing block ciphers. We take the reverse approach: that is, given a proven masking scheme (Rivain and Prouff, CHES 2010) we design a block cipher that fits well the masking constraints. The difficulty of implementing efficient masking for a block cipher comes mainly from the S-boxes. Therefore the choice of an adequate S-box is the first and most critical step of our work. The S-box we selected is non-bijective; we discuss the resulting design and security problems. A complete design of the cipher is given, as well as some implementation results.
TL;DR: The neural net application represents a way of the next development in good cryptography, e.g. designing such neural network that would be practically used in the area of cryptography, this paper also includes an experimental demonstration.
TL;DR: The aim of partial image encryption using SCAN mapping method is to reduce the amount of data to encrypt while preserving a sufficient level of security than the fully layered image encryption use SCAN method.
Abstract: In traditional image and video content protection schemes, called fully layered, the whole content is first compressed. Then, the compressed bitstream is entirely encrypted using a standard cipher (DES, AES, IDEA, etc.). The specific characteristics of this kind of data (high-transmission rate with limited bandwidth) make standard encryption algorithms inadequate. Another limitation of fully layered systems consists of altering the whole bitstream syntax which may disable some codec functionalities. Partial encryption is a new trend in image and video content protection. It consists of encrypting only a subset of the data. The aim of partial image encryption using SCAN mapping method is to reduce the amount of data to encrypt while preserving a sufficient level of security than the fully layered image encryption using SCAN method. In this paper, we analyzed Image encryption techniques and Partial image encryption techniques and present the comparative results.
TL;DR: In this paper, the first single-key attacks on TWINE-80 and TWINE128 were presented, which used the recently developed biclique technique and the complexity of the attacks were 279.10 and 2126.82 respectively.
Abstract: TWINE is a lightweight block cipher firstly proposed at ECRYPT Workshop on Lightweight Cryptography 2011 and then presented at the Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography 2012. The cipher consists of 36 rounds and has two versions TWINE-80 and TWINE-128 supporting key lengths of 80 and 128 bits, respectively. The block length of the two versions is 64-bit. In this paper, we present the first single-key attacks on both the versions of the cipher. In these attacks, we use the recently developed biclique technique. The complexities of the attacks on TWINE-80 and TWINE-128 are 279.10 and 2126.82 respectively and the data requirement for the two attacks is 260.
TL;DR: A 128 bit AES encryption and Decryption by using Rijndael algorithm (Advanced Encryption Standard algorithm) is been made into a synthesizable using Verilog code which can be easily implemented on to FPGA.
Abstract: Cryptography is the study of mathematical techniques related to aspects of information security such as confidentiality, data integrity, entity authentication and data origin authentication. In data and telecommunications, cryptography is necessary when communicating over any unreliable medium, which includes any network particularly the internet. In this paper, a 128 bit AES encryption and Decryption by using Rijndael algorithm (Advanced Encryption Standard algorithm) is been made into a synthesizable using Verilog code which can be easily implemented on to FPGA. The algorithm is composed of three main parts: cipher, inverse cipher and Key Expansion. Cipher converts data to an unintelligible form called plaintext. Key Expansion generates a Key schedule that is used in cipher and inverse cipher procedure. Cipher and inverse cipher are composed of special number of rounds. For the AES algorithm, the number of rounds to be performed during the execution of the algorithm uses a round function that is composed of four different byte-oriented transformations: Sub Bytes, Shift Rows, Mix columns and Add Round Key. Index Terms—Advanced Encryption Standard, Cryptography, Decryption, Encryption.
TL;DR: The work on designing a KP-ABE scheme with constant size cipher text for monotonic access structures is described, which is proved to be secure under the general Diffie-Hellman exponent assumption.
Abstract: Attribute-based encryption (ABE) is a new cryptographic primitive which provides a promising tool for addressing the problem of secure and fine-grained data sharing and decentralized access control. Key-policy attribute-based encryption (KP-ABE) is an important class of ABE, where cipher texts are labeled with sets of attributes and private keys are associated with access structures that control which cipher texts a user is able to decrypt. KP-ABE has important applications in data sharing on untrusted cloud storage. However, the cipher text size grows linearly with the number of attributes embedded in cipher text in most existing KP-ABE schemes. In this paper, we describe our work on designing a KP-ABE scheme with constant size cipher text for monotonic access structures. The downside of the proposed KP-ABE scheme is that private keys have multiple size growth in the number of attributes in the access structure. The proposed KP-ABE scheme is proved to be secure under the general Diffie-Hellman exponent assumption.
TL;DR: This paper presents several countermeasures based on the idea of infective computation that ensure that a fault injected into a cipher, dummy, or redundant round will infect the ciphertext such that an attacker cannot derive any information on the secret key being used.
Abstract: Implementation attacks pose a serious threat for the security of cryptographic devices and there are a multitude of countermeasures that are used to prevent them. Two countermeasures used in implementations of block ciphers to increase the complexity of such attacks are the use of dummy rounds and redundant computation with consistency checks to prevent fault attacks. In this paper we present several countermeasures based on the idea of infective computation. Our countermeasures ensure that a fault injected into a cipher, dummy, or redundant round will infect the ciphertext such that an attacker cannot derive any information on the secret key being used. This has one clear advantage: the propagation of faults prevents an attacker from being able to conduct any fault analysis on any corrupted ciphertexts. As a consequence, there is no need for any test at the end of an implementation to determine if a fault has been injected and a ciphertext can always be returned.
TL;DR: The security structure of sensor layer, network layer, and application layer in IOT is described, and dynamic variable cipher security certificate is presented, a new method of ID authentication among node and node in sensor layer.
Abstract: With the development of Internet of Things (IOT), there are more and more concerns about the security of IOT. In terms of security of Internet, the security framework of Internet can not provide a completely solution to solve all security problems in IOT [1]. This paper describes the security structure of sensor layer, network layer, and application layer in IOT. This thesis intends to analyze the security features of sensor layer, and then presents dynamic variable cipher security certificate, a new method of ID authentication among node and node in sensor layer. This certificate provides a method of “one time one cipher” between communicating parties. It's a lightweight encryption or decryption method, using time stamp technology, timeliness in the two communication partners is guaranteed. In general, dynamic variable cipher security certificate can be well applied to the communication among sensor nodes in IOT.
TL;DR: White-box cryptography concerns the design and analysis of implementations of cryptographic algorithms engineered to execute on untrusted platforms as discussed by the authors, where all details of the implementation are completely visible to an attacker: not only do they see input and output, they see every intermediate computation that happens along the way.
Abstract: White-box cryptography concerns the design and analysis of implementations of cryptographic algorithms engineered to execute on untrusted platforms. Such implementations are said to operate in a white-box attack context. This is an attack model where all details of the implementation are completely visible to an attacker: not only do they see input and output, they see every intermediate computation that happens along the way. The goal of a white-box attacker when targeting an implementation of a cipher is typically to extract the cryptographic key; thus, white-box implementations have been designed to thwart this goal (i.e., to make key extraction difficult/infeasible). The academic study of white-box cryptography was initiated in 2002 in the seminal work of Chow et al. (White-box cryptography and an AES implementation. In: Selected areas in cryptography: 9th annual international workshop, SAC 2002. Lecture notes in computer science, vol 2595, pp 250–270, 2003). Here, we review the first white-box AES implementation proposed by Chow et al. and give detailed information on how to construct it. We provide a number of diagrams that summarize the flow of data through the various look-up tables in the implementation, which helps clarify the overall design. We then briefly review the impressive 2004 cryptanalysis by Billet et al. (Cryptanalysis of a white box AES implementation. In: Selected areas in cryptography: 11th international workshop, SAC 2004. Lecture notes in computer science, vol 3357, pp 227–240, 2005). The BGE attack can used to extract an AES key from Chow et al.’s original white-box AES implementation with a work factor of about 230, and this fact has motivated subsequent work on improved AES implementations.
TL;DR: In this article, a new image encryption scheme using a secret key of 144-bits is proposed, in which image is divided into blocks and subsequently into color components, each color component is modified by performing bitwise operation which depends on secret key as well as a few most significant bits of its previous and next color component.
Abstract: In this paper, a new image encryption scheme using a secret key of 144-bits is proposed. In the substitution process of the scheme, image is divided into blocks and subsequently into color components. Each color component is modified by performing bitwise operation which depends on secret key as well as a few most significant bits of its previous and next color component. Three rounds are taken to complete substitution process. To make cipher more robust, a feedback mechanism is also applied by modifying used secret key after encrypting each block. Further, resultant image is partitioned into several key based dynamic sub-images. Each sub-image passes through the scrambling process where pixels of sub-image are reshuffled within itself by using a generated magic square matrix. Five rounds are taken for scrambling process. The propose scheme is simple, fast and sensitive to the secret key. Due to high order of substitution and permutation, common attacks like linear and differential cryptanalysis are infeasible. The experimental results show that the proposed encryption technique is efficient and has high security features.
TL;DR: The swap-or-not shuffle as discussed by the authors is a pseudorandom permutation (PRP) based method for building a small-domain cipher and achieving format-preserving encryption.
Abstract: We introduce the swap-or-not shuffle and show that the technique gives rise to a new method to convert a pseudorandom function (PRF) into a pseudorandom permutation (PRP) (or, alternatively, to directly build a confusion/diffusion blockcipher). We then prove that swap-or-not has excellent quantitative security bounds, giving a Luby-Rackoff type result that ensures security (assuming an ideal round function) to a number of adversarial queries that is nearly the size of the construction's domain. Swap-or-not provides a direct solution for building a small-domain cipher and achieving format-preserving encryption, yielding the best bounds known for a practical scheme for enciphering credit-card numbers. The analysis of swap-or-not is based on the theory of mixing times of Markov chains.
TL;DR: A data hiding system that is based on audio steganography and cryptography is proposed to secure data transfer between the source and destination and the result shows that the security of the proposed system is more efficient in securing data from unauthorized access.
Abstract: Increase in the number of attack recorded during electronic exchange of information between the source and intended destination has indeed called for a more robust method for securing data transfer. Cryptography and steganography are well known and widely used techniques that manipulate information in order to cipher or hide their existence. These two techniques share the common goals and services of protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information from unauthorized access. In this paper, a data hiding system that is based on audio steganography and cryptography is proposed to secure data transfer between the source and destination. Audio medium is used for the steganography and a LSB (Least Significant Bit) algorithm is employed to encode the message inside the audio file. The proposed system was evaluated for effectiveness and the result shows that, the encryption and decryption methods used for developing the system make the security of the proposed system more efficient in securing data from unauthorized access. The system is therefore, recommended to be used by the Internet users for establishing a more secure communication.
TL;DR: In this article, Even and Mansour's Even-Mansour Ciphers were extended to a provable security setting, where an attacker needs to make at least 2 2n/3 queries to the underlying permutations to distinguish the construction from random.
Abstract: This paper considers—for the first time—the concept of key- alternating ciphers in a provable security setting. Key-alternating ciphers can be seen as a generalization of a construction proposed by Even and Mansour in 1991. This construction builds a block cipher PX from an n-bit permutation P and two n-bit keys k0 and k1, setting PXk0,k1 (x )= k1 ⊕ P (x ⊕ k0). Here we consider a (natural) extension of the Even- Mansour construction with t permutations P1,...,Pt and t +1 keys, k0,...,kt. We demonstrate in a formal model that such a cipher is secure in the sense that an attacker needs to make at least 2 2n/3 queries to the underlying permutations to be able to distinguish the construction from random. We argue further that the bound is tight for t = 2 but there is a gap in the bounds for t> 2, which is left as an open and interesting problem. Additionally, in terms of statistical attacks, we show that the distribution of Fourier coefficients for the cipher over all keys is close to ideal. Lastly, we define a practical instance of the construction with t =2 using AES referred to as AES 2 . Any attack on AES 2 with complexity
TL;DR: A new AES-like design for key-dependent AES using S-box rotation is proposed and it is shown how this property can be used to make the S- box key- dependent hence make the AES stronger.
Abstract: In this paper, a new AES-like design for key-dependent AES using S-box rotation is proposed. We also show how this property can be used to make the S-box key-dependent hence make the AES stronger. The cipher structure resembles the original AES, only the S-box is made key-dependent without changing the value. This new design is tested using the NIST Statistical Test and will be further cryptanalyzed with algebraic attack in order to permit its subversion or evasion
TL;DR: This paper improves the impossible differential attack on 20-round LBlock given in the design paper of the LBlock cipher using relations between the round keys and uses the same 14-round impossible differential characteristic observed by the designers to attack on 21 rounds.
Abstract: In this paper, we improve the impossible differential attack on 20-round LBlock given in the design paper of the LBlock cipher. Using relations between the round keys we attack on 21-round and 22-round LBlock with a complexity of 269.5 and 279.28 encryptions respectively. We use the same 14-round impossible differential characteristic observed by the designers to attack on 21 rounds and another 14-round impossible differential characteristic to attack on 22 rounds of LBlock.
TL;DR: A new integrated symmetric-key cryptographic method, named SJA, which is the combination of advanced Caesar Cipher method, TTJSA method, Bit wise Rotation and Reversal method to make the entire crypto system very hard to break is presented.
Abstract: In this paper the authors present a new integrated symmetric-key cryptographic method, named SJA, which is the combination of advanced Caesar Cipher method, TTJSA method, Bit wise Rotation and Reversal method. The encryption method consists of three basic steps: 1) Encryption Technique using Advanced Caesar Cipher, 2) Encryption Technique using TTJSA Algorithm, and 3) Encryption Technique using Bit wise Rotation and Reversal. TTJSA Algorithm, used in this method, is again a combination of generalized modified Vernam Cipher method, MSA method and NJJSAA method. Nath et al. already developed some symmetric key encryption methods namely MSA, DJSA, DJJSA, modified DJJSA, NJJSA, TTJSA, TTSJA, DJMNA, UES-I, UES-II etc. The cryptanalysis shows that TTJSA is free from standard cryptographic attacks such as differential attack, plain text attack or any brute force attack. In the present method the authors have used advanced modified Caesar Cipher method where the authors have modified the standard Caesar Cipher method and then they applied TTJSA method to make the entire crypto system very hard to break. The present method has been tested on different plain text specially with repeated character and the spectral analysis of the plain text and the encrypted is also been shown. The spectral analysis shows that the present cryptography method, SJA can not be broken with any kind of standard cryptography attack. The authors propose that the present method will be most suitable for password, SMS or any kind of small message encryption.
TL;DR: The objective is to survey what ciphers are suitable for security in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and other security applications with demanding area restrictions.
TL;DR: The main concepts of Steganography and a carrier media that is used for this goal are discussed and the doted space methodology to enhance data hiding is described.
Abstract: Security methodologies are taken into consideration for many applications, where transferring sensitive data over network must be protected from any intermediate attacker. Privacy of data can be granted using encryption, by changing transmitted data into cipher form. Apart from encryption, hiding data represents another technique to transfer data without being noticeable by an attacker. This technique is called Steganography. In this paper, we will discuss the main concepts of Steganography and a carrier media that is used for this goal. Employing text as mask for other text represents the most difficult method that can be used to hide data. We will discuss some algorithms that use Arabic text. We then describe our doted space methodology to enhance data hiding.