The Enigmatique Toolkit

Christopher Billings

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Paper 2008/408

The Enigmatique Toolkit

Christopher Billings

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: Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Contact author(s): chris1752 @ yahoo com
History: 2008-10-02: received
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2008/408
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2008/408,
      author = {Christopher Billings},
      title = {The Enigmatique Toolkit},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2008/408},
      year = {2008},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2008/408}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2008/408}
}