40-bit encryption

About: 40-bit encryption is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5434 publications have been published within this topic receiving 149016 citations.

Context-agile encryption for high speed communication networks

Abstract: Different applications have different security requirements for data privacy, data integrity, and authentication. Encryption is one technique that addresses these requirements. Encryption hardware, designed for use in high-speed communications networks, can satisfy a wide variety of security requirements if the hardware implementation is key-agile, key length-agile, mode-agile, and algorithm-agile. Hence, context-agile encryption provides enhanced solutions to the secrecy, interoperability, and quality of service issues in high-speed networks. Moreover, having a single context-agile encryptor at an ATM aggregation point (such as a firewall) reduces hardware and administrative costs. While single-algorithm, key-agile encryptors exist, encryptors that are agile in a cryptographic robustness sense, are still research topics.

Encryption key recovery in the event of storage management failure

Abstract: A data processing system stores encrypted data. Object identifiers are assigned to storage objects, and data encryption keys are assigned to the storage objects. When performing an operation upon a storage object, data encryption key failure may occur due to a corrupt or incorrect key. In this case, a copy of the data encryption key is fetched from a key server. It is possible for the association of the object identifiers with the data encryption keys to become lost or confused, so that the key server may fail to provide the correct key for a specified object identifier. Therefore, an absolute key identifier that is unique across the key server namespace also is stored in association with the object identifier in the storage system and in the key store of the key server, and the absolute key identifier is used as a failsafe for recovery of encrypted data.

Reliable Hardware Architectures for Cryptographic Block Ciphers LED and HIGHT

Abstract: Cryptographic architectures provide different security properties to sensitive usage models. However, unless reliability of architectures is guaranteed, such security properties can be undermined through natural or malicious faults. In this paper, two underlying block ciphers which can be used in authenticated encryption algorithms are considered, i.e., light encryption device and high security and lightweight block ciphers. The former is of the Advanced Encryption Standard type and has been considered area-efficient, while the latter constitutes a Feistel network structure and is suitable for low-complexity and low-power embedded security applications. In this paper, we propose efficient error detection architectures including variants of recomputing with encoded operands and signature-based schemes to detect both transient and permanent faults. Authenticated encryption is applied in cryptography to provide confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity simultaneously to the message sent in a communication channel. In this paper, we show that the proposed schemes are applicable to the case study of simple lightweight CFB for providing authenticated encryption with associated data. The error simulations are performed using Xilinx Integrated Synthesis Environment tool and the results are benchmarked for the Xilinx FPGA family Virtex-7 to assess the reliability capability and efficiency of the proposed architectures.

Key management for encryption/decryption systems

Abstract: In a data encryption/decryption system providing for security of data communications channels, a sub-system for generating, transporting encryption/decryption keys and for introducing those keys into the system while at the same time providing a high level of security for the keys and, hence, the encryption/decryption system.

Dynamic Encrypted Data Sharing Scheme Based on Conditional Proxy Broadcast Re-Encryption for Cloud Storage

Abstract: Since Cloud Service Provider is a semi-trusted party in cloud storage, to protect data from being disclosed, users’ data are encrypted before being uploaded to a cloud server. Undoubtedly, flexible encrypted data sharing is a very important demand required by cloud storage users, whereas few schemes have being designed to satisfy this demand. In this paper, based on conditional proxy broadcast re-encryption technology, an encrypted data sharing scheme for secure cloud storage is proposed. The scheme not only achieves broadcast data sharing by taking advantage of broadcast encryption, but also achieves dynamic sharing that enables adding a user to and removing a user from sharing groups dynamically without the need to change encryption public keys. Moreover, by using proxy re-encryption technology, our scheme enables the proxy (cloud server) to directly share encrypted data to the target users without the intervention of data owner while keeping data privacy, so that greatly improves the sharing performance. Meanwhile, the correctness and the security are proved; the performance is analyzed, and the experimental results are shown to verify the feasibility and the efficiency of the proposed scheme.