A SECURED EMBEDDED SCHEME BASED ON MULTI-CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROTOCOLS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51406/jnset.v15i2.1671Keywords:
Cryptography, MLES and polyalphabetic substitutionAbstract
Transmission of information via unsecured channel requires confidentiality, authorization and authentication as part of major factors that must be put into consideration. This work proposes a scheme that can take care of these major factors at once. The method involves a multi-level approach that comprises of a key exchange protocol, a message authentication code, a key derivation function and a symmetric encryption known as polyalphabetic substitution that makes use of a 94x94 Vigenere table. The four cryptographic techniques are combined to form an encryption protocol, coined MLES for a message to be securely transmitted. In order to test the functionality of MLES scheme, it was implemented using Java 1.8.0 and tested on a text data. The result shows a feasible protocol that can secure a message in steganography.
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