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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Cryptographic Algorithms with Data Shorter than the Encryption Key, Based on LZW and Huffman Coding.

Tomasz Krokosz, Jarogniew Rykowski, Małgorzata Zajęcka, Robert Brzoza-Woch, Leszek Rutkowski

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 authors.

Tomasz KrokoszDepartment of Information Technology, Poznań University of Economics and Business, 61-875 Poznan, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-1518-5848
Jarogniew RykowskiDepartment of Information Technology, Poznań University of Economics and Business, 61-875 Poznan, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-7944-6061
Małgorzata ZajęckaDepartment of Computer Science, Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics and Telecommunications, AGH University of Krakow, 30-059 Krakow, Poland.
Robert Brzoza-WochDepartment of Computer Science, Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics and Telecommunications, AGH University of Krakow, 30-059 Krakow, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-8340-5454
Leszek RutkowskiDepartment of Computer Science, Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics and Telecommunications, AGH University of Krakow, 30-059 Krakow, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-6960-9525

Funding

Polish Ministry of Education and Science assigned to AGH University and the project ARTIQ DEC-2021/01/2/ST6/00004, DWP/ARTIQ-I/426/2023
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Modern, commonly used cryptosystems based on encryption keys require that the length of the stream of encrypted data is approximately the length of the key or longer. In practice, this approach unnecessarily complicates strong encryption of very short messages commonly used for example in ultra-low-power and resource-constrained wireless network sensor nodes based on microcontrollers (MCUs). In such cases, the data payload can be as short as a few bits of data while the typical length of the key is several hundred bits or more. The article proposes an idea of employing a complex of two algorithms, initially applied for data compression, acting as a standard-length encryption key algorithm to increase the transmission security of very short data sequences, even as short as one or a few bytes. In this article, we present and evaluate an approach that uses LZW and Huffman coding to achieve data transmission obfuscation and a basic level of security.

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compressionentropyHuffman codinginformation securityLZWprivacyshort encryption key

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PMID37687864
PMCPMC10490581

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