A Simple Encryption Algorithm
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Cryptography, Security and Privacy
- Keywords
- Block Cipher, Cryptography, Symmetric Key
- Copyright
- © 2017 St. Pierre
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2017. A Simple Encryption Algorithm. PeerJ Preprints 5:e3128v3 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3128v3
Abstract
In this paper I present a Simple Encryption Algorithm (SEAL), by which 128-bit long blocks can be quickly encrypted/decrypted. The algorithm is designed to run efficiently in software without any specialized hardware while still guaranteeing a strong degree of confidentiality. The cipher is composed entirely of simple bit-wise operations, such as the exclusive-or and circular shift, in addition to modular addition, thereby making it exceedingly easy to implement in most programming languages as well as efficient in terms of performance.
Author Comment
In this version I updated the cipher diagram to make it more readable. Also, the analysis section of the paper has been expanded greatly.