Paper 2023/1036
Reduction of the secret key length in the perfect cipher by data compression and randomisation
, Federal Research Center for Information and Computational Technologies, Novosibirsk, RussiaAbstract
Perfect ciphers have been a very attractive cryptographic tool ever since C. Shannon described them. Note that, by definition, if a perfect cipher is used, no one can get any information about the encrypted message without knowing the secret key. We consider the problem of reducing the key length of perfect ciphers, because in many applications the length of the secret key is a crucial parameter. This paper describes a simple method of key length reduction. This method gives a perfect cipher and is based on the use of data compression and randomisation, and the average key length can be made close to Shannon entropy (which is the key length limit). It should be noted that the method can effectively use readily available data compressors (archivers).
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Secret-key cryptography
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- Keywords
- cryptographyperfect cipherdata compressionrandomisationShannon entropy
- Contact author(s)
- boris @ ryabko net
- History
- 2023-07-05: approved
- 2023-07-03: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2023/1036
- License
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CC0
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2023/1036,
author = {Boris Ryabko},
title = {Reduction of the secret key length in the perfect cipher by data compression and randomisation},
howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2023/1036},
year = {2023},
note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1036}},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1036}
}
