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Received: 2007-06-26

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Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE A 2008 Vol.9 No.2 P.211-214

http://doi.org/10.1631/jzus.A072143


Comments on “How to repair the Hill cipher”


Author(s):  Y. RANGEL-ROMERO, R. VEGA-GARCÍ,A, A. MENCHACA-MÉ,NDEZ, D. ACOLTZI-CERVANTES, L. MARTÍ,NEZ-RAMOS, M. MECATE-ZAMBRANO, F. MONTALVO-LEZAMA, J. BARRÓ,N-VIDALES, N. CORTEZ-DUARTE, F. RODRÍ,GUEZ-HENRÍ,QUEZ

Affiliation(s):  Computer Science Department, CINVESTAV-IPN, Av.IPN No. 2508 Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, Mexico City 07300, Mexico

Corresponding email(s):   francisco@cs.cinvestav.mx

Key Words:  Hill cipher, Symmetric encryption, Image encryption


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Abstract: 
A modification of the hill cipher algorithm was recently proposed by Ismail et al.(2006), who claimed that their new scheme could offer more security than the original one due to an extra non-linearity layer introduced via an elaborated key generation mechanism. That mechanism produces one different encryption key for each one of the plaintext blocks. Nevertheless, we show in this paper that their method still has severe security flaws whose weaknesses are essentially the same as that already found in the original hill cipher scheme.

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Reference

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[2] Hill, L.S., 1931. Concerning certain linear transformation apparatus of cryptography. The American Mathematical Monthly, 38:135-154.

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