Securing digital data from unauthorized access throughout its entire lifecycle has been always a critical concern.A robust data security system should protect the information assets of any organization against cybercr...Securing digital data from unauthorized access throughout its entire lifecycle has been always a critical concern.A robust data security system should protect the information assets of any organization against cybercriminal activities.The Twofish algorithm is one of the well-known symmetric key block cipher cryptographic algorithms and has been known for its rapid convergence.But when it comes to security,it is not the preferred cryptographic algorithm to use compared to other algorithms that have shown better security.Many applications and social platforms have adopted other symmetric key block cipher cryptographic algorithms such as the Advanced Encryption Standard(AES)algorithm to construct their main security wall.In this paper,a new modification for the original Twofish algorithm is proposed to strengthen its security and to take advantage of its fast convergence.The new algorithm has been named Split-n-Swap(SnS).Performance analysis of the new modification algorithm has been performed using different measurement metrics.The experimental results show that the complexity of the SnS algorithm exceeds that of the original Twofish algorithm while maintaining reasonable values for encryption and decryption times as well as memory utilization.A detailed analysis is given with the strength and limitation aspects of the proposed algorithm.展开更多
This paper introduces an Improved RC6(IRC6)cipher for data encryption based on data-dependent rotations.The proposed scheme is designed with the potential of meeting the needs of the Advanced Encryption Standard(AES)....This paper introduces an Improved RC6(IRC6)cipher for data encryption based on data-dependent rotations.The proposed scheme is designed with the potential of meeting the needs of the Advanced Encryption Standard(AES).Four parameters are used to characterize the proposed scheme.These parameters are the size of the word(w)in bits,the number of rounds(r),the length of the secret key(b)in bytes,and the size of the block(L)in bits.The main feature of IRC6 is the variable number of working registers instead of just four registers as in RC6,resulting in a variable block size for plaintext and ciphertext.The IRC6 cipher is designed to improve the robustness against attacks by increasing the diffusion for each round and providing greater security with fewer rounds.The effectiveness of the proposed IRC6 scheme is verified against theoretical attacks.The proposed IRC6 scheme depends on full diffusion and confusion mechanisms regardless of the utilized block size.The proposed IRC6 scheme saves 70%of the encryption time and 64%of the decryption time of RC6.The simulation results prove that the IRC6 achieves a better encryption/decryption time compared to the traditionalRC6.Therefore,the proposed IRC6 is anticipated to fulfill the market needs and system security requirements.展开更多
文摘Securing digital data from unauthorized access throughout its entire lifecycle has been always a critical concern.A robust data security system should protect the information assets of any organization against cybercriminal activities.The Twofish algorithm is one of the well-known symmetric key block cipher cryptographic algorithms and has been known for its rapid convergence.But when it comes to security,it is not the preferred cryptographic algorithm to use compared to other algorithms that have shown better security.Many applications and social platforms have adopted other symmetric key block cipher cryptographic algorithms such as the Advanced Encryption Standard(AES)algorithm to construct their main security wall.In this paper,a new modification for the original Twofish algorithm is proposed to strengthen its security and to take advantage of its fast convergence.The new algorithm has been named Split-n-Swap(SnS).Performance analysis of the new modification algorithm has been performed using different measurement metrics.The experimental results show that the complexity of the SnS algorithm exceeds that of the original Twofish algorithm while maintaining reasonable values for encryption and decryption times as well as memory utilization.A detailed analysis is given with the strength and limitation aspects of the proposed algorithm.
基金This study was funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research,Taif University Researchers Supporting Project number(TURSP-2020/08),Taif University,Taif,Saudi Arabia.
文摘This paper introduces an Improved RC6(IRC6)cipher for data encryption based on data-dependent rotations.The proposed scheme is designed with the potential of meeting the needs of the Advanced Encryption Standard(AES).Four parameters are used to characterize the proposed scheme.These parameters are the size of the word(w)in bits,the number of rounds(r),the length of the secret key(b)in bytes,and the size of the block(L)in bits.The main feature of IRC6 is the variable number of working registers instead of just four registers as in RC6,resulting in a variable block size for plaintext and ciphertext.The IRC6 cipher is designed to improve the robustness against attacks by increasing the diffusion for each round and providing greater security with fewer rounds.The effectiveness of the proposed IRC6 scheme is verified against theoretical attacks.The proposed IRC6 scheme depends on full diffusion and confusion mechanisms regardless of the utilized block size.The proposed IRC6 scheme saves 70%of the encryption time and 64%of the decryption time of RC6.The simulation results prove that the IRC6 achieves a better encryption/decryption time compared to the traditionalRC6.Therefore,the proposed IRC6 is anticipated to fulfill the market needs and system security requirements.
