Computer Science and Information Technologies
Vol 2, No 2: July 2021

Designing a secured audio based key generator for cryptographic symmetric key algorithms

Avinash Krishnan Raghunath (Vellore Institute of Technology)
Dimple Bharadwaj (Vellore Institute of Technology)
M Prabhuram (Vellore Institute of Technology)
Aju D (Vellore Institute of Technology)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Jul 2021

Abstract

Cryptography is a technique to secure data transmissions and ensure confiden-tiality, authenticity and integrity of data exchanged over the digital networks by utilizing mathematical algorithms to transform the plain text (original message) to cipher text (encrypted message) using a key or seed value. The general con-sensus regarding the use of non-deterministic true random numbers (TRN) which are generated from the physical environment such as entropy keys, at-mospheric noise, etc., as a public or private key has received limited encour-agement due to the demanding hardware requirements needed to extract the necessary data from the environment. Therefore, this research aims at design-ing and developing a lightweight program to generate a true random number (TRNG) key using live audio recordings which is further randomized using system date and time. These TRNs can be used to replace the deterministic pseudo random number cryptographic keys that are presently used by indus-tries for a symmetric key encryption algorithm which devolves the algorithm to being conditionally secured. Using the audio based TRNG key would render the same encryption algorithm as unconditionally secured.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

csit

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Engineering

Description

Computer Science and Information Technologies ISSN 2722-323X, e-ISSN 2722-3221 is an open access, peer-reviewed international journal that publish original research article, review papers, short communications that will have an immediate impact on the ongoing research in all areas of Computer ...