Paper 2008/408 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2008/408 ↗
The Enigmatique Toolkit
Abstract
Abstract: This paper describes a new method of creating systems of poly-alphabetic, symmetric ciphers with a large set of algorithms. The method uses two translation tables containing the code-text character set, one for encryption and the other for decryption. After each character is encrypted or decrypted, these tables are permuted through a series of pseudo random, pairwise swaps. The implementation of alternative swap formulas leads to systems with large sets of encryption/decryption algorithms. Systems that contain more than a googol (1E100) algorithms have been easily implemented. An algorithm set can be easily sub-setted, producing hierarchical systems where a program may contain a single algorithm or a portion of the full set. The strength of these systems has not been determined. However strength can be inferred through the use of a substantial number of numeric keys , pseudo random number generators, algorithm switching, and other features.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
PDF- Category
- Secret-key cryptography
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- History
- 2008-10-02: last updated
- 2008-10-02: published
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2008/408
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2008/408,
author = {Christopher Billings},
title = {The Enigmatique Toolkit},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2008/408},
year = {2008},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2008/408}
}