Introduction of a Triple Prime Symmetric Key Block Cipher
This work addresses encryption security for data transmission, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing symmetric key cipher principles.
The paper tackles the problem of secure data encryption by proposing a new symmetric key block cipher that uses triple prime integers as private keys of varying lengths, and it reports that the cipher is reasonably non-susceptible to cryptanalytic intrusions based on implementation results.
This paper proposes to put forward an innovative algorithm for symmetric key block cipher named as "Triple Prime Symmetric Key Block Cipher with Variable Key-Spaces (TPSKBCVK)" that employs triple prime integers as private key-spaces of varying lengths to encrypt data files. Principles of modular arithmetic have been elegantly used in the proposed idea of the cipher. Depending on observations of the results of implementation of the proposed cipher on a set of real data files of several types, all results are registered and analyzed. The strength of the underlying design of the cipher and the liberty of using a long key-space expectedly makes it reasonably non-susceptible against possible cryptanalytic intrusions. As a future scope of the work, it is intended to formulate and employ an improved scheme that will use a carrier media (image or multimedia data file) for a secure transmission of the private keys.