Design of Ciphers based on the Geometric Structure of the Laguerre and Minkowski Planes
This work addresses the underutilization of geometric structures in cryptography, offering new ciphers with proven security properties, though it appears incremental as it extends similar approaches from prior work.
The authors designed encryption schemes based on the geometric structures of the Laguerre and Minkowski planes, showing that the Laguerre cipher meets Shannon's perfectness requirement exactly and the Minkowski cipher does so in first approximation, with the Laguerre cipher also satisfying completeness criteria.
Till now geometric structures don't play a major role in cryptography. Gilbert, MacWilliams and Sloane introduced an authentication scheme in the projective plane and showed its perfectness in the sense of Shannon. In arXiv:2102.10321 we introduced an encryption scheme in the Möbius plane and showed that it fulfills Shannon's requirement of perfectness in first approximation and also the requirement of completeness according to Kam and Davida. In this paper we will apply a similar approach to define encryption schemes in the geometries of the Laguerre plande and the Minkowski plane. We will show that the encryption scheme in the Laguerre geometry meets Shannon's requirement of perfectness sharp and that the encryption scheme in the Minkowski geometry meets this requirement in first approximation. The Laguerre cipher also fulfills the requirement of completeness according to Kam and Davida.