Proposal of a New Block Cipher reasonably Non-Vulnerable against Cryptanalytic Attacks
This work addresses the need for secure encryption methods, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing block cipher concepts with a focus on key-space variation.
The paper tackles the problem of designing a secure block cipher by proposing MABCVK, which uses varying key lengths and modular arithmetic, and reports that it is reasonably non-vulnerable to cryptanalytic attacks based on implementation results on real data files.
This paper proposes a new block cipher termed as "Modular Arithmetic based Block Cipher with Varying Key-Spaces (MABCVK)" that uses private key-spaces of varying lengths to encrypt data files. There is a simple but intelligent use of theory of modular arithmetic in the scheme of the cipher. Based on observed implementation of the proposed cipher on a set of real data files of several types, all results are tabulated and analyzed.The schematic strength of the cipher and the freedom of using a long key-space expectedly can make it reasonably nonvulnerable against possible cryptanalytic attacks. As a part of the future scope of the work, it is also intended to formulate and implement an enhanced scheme that will use a carrier image to have a secure transmission of the private key.