Ambiguous Multi-Symmetric Scheme and Applications

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DOI: 10.4236/jis.2017.84024    1,180 Downloads   2,569 Views  

ABSTRACT

This paper introduces and evaluates the performance of a novel cipher scheme, Ambiguous Multi-Symmetric Cryptography (AMSC), which conceals multiple coherent plain-texts in one cipher-text. The cipher-text can be decrypted by different keys to produce different plain-texts. Security analysis showed that AMSC is secure against cipher-text only and known plain-text attacks. AMSC has the following applications: 1) it can send multiple messages for multiple receivers through one cipher-text; 2) it can send one real message and multiple decoys for camouflage; and 3) it can send one real message to one receiver using parallel processing. Performance comparison with leading symmetric algorithms (DES, AES and RC6) demonstrated AMSC’s efficiency in execution time.

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Bassous, R. , Mansour, A. , Bassous, R. , Fu, H. , Zhu, Y. and Corser, G. (2017) Ambiguous Multi-Symmetric Scheme and Applications. Journal of Information Security, 8, 383-401. doi: 10.4236/jis.2017.84024.

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