A Vector Space Approach to Generate Dynamic Keys for Hill Cipher

09/15/2019

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by   Sunil Kumar, et al.

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In this paper a variant of the Hill cipher is proposed. In the classical Hill cipher an invertible matrix is used for encryption but the scheme is vulnerable to the known-plaintext attack which can reveal the matrix. In our proposed cryptosystem, each plaintext block is encrypted by a new invertible key matrix that thwarts the known-plaintext attack. To generate the invertible matrices which serve as the dynamic keys we make use of the vector spaces, randomly generated basis and non singular linear transformation. Resulting cipher is secure against the known-plaintext attack.