Journal of Electrical and Computational Innovations(JECI)

Electrical, Computer and System Engineering, Computer and Data Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, United States

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• Research Article   
  Transmitting Secrets by Transmitting only Plaintext: Hiding-in-Plain-Sight Cryptography
  Author(s): Gideon Samid*
  
  Presenting a novel use of encryption, not for hiding a secret, but for marking letters. Given a 2n letters plaintext, the transmitter encrypts the first n letters with key K1 to generate corresponding n cipherletters, and encrypts the second n letters with key K2 to generate n corresponding cipherletters. The transmitter sends the 2n cipherletters along with the keys, K1 and K2. The recipient (and any interceptor) will readily decrypt the 2n cipherletters to the original plaintext. This makes the above procedure equivalent to sending out the plaintext. So why bother? When decrypting the 2n cipherletters one will make a note of how the letters that were encrypted with K1 are mixed with the letters encrypted with K2 while keeping the original order of the letters encrypted with each key. There are 2^n possible mixings. Which means that the choice of mixing order can deliver a secret mes.. Read More»
  

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