Title: A hybrid DNA cryptography-based encryption algorithm using the fusion of symmetric key techniques

Authors: Animesh Hazra; Soumya Ghosh; Sampad Jash

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, 735102, India ' Department of Information Technology, Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, 735102, India ' Department of Information Technology, Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, 735102, India

Abstract: The 21st century, is the era of e-commerce and e-business where information security plays very vital role. The higher data breaching rate has raised a query to the safety of digitalisation scheme. The security approaches which are made for every industry or organisation should be flexible with the ever changing and challenging data breaching environment. Therefore, the need of encryption and user access controls to safeguard the data has been introduced. This has given birth to various hybrid cryptographic methods, one of them is the DNA cryptography. In this study a brief sketch of DNA cryptology coupled with an innovative algorithm which is founded on the amalgamation of DNA nucleotides, XOR operation and symmetric key concept is presented. The algorithm presented here is truly efficient and one of the salient feature of this technique is the concern of safety that can be customised according to the necessity of sender.

Keywords: complement operation; data security; decryption; digital coding; DNA cryptography; encryption; fusion; substitution; symmetric; XOR operation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAIP.2024.140095

International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms, 2024 Vol.28 No.3/4, pp.340 - 363

Accepted: 16 Apr 2019
Published online: 24 Jul 2024 *

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