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This work investigates whether a modified substitution cipher can have any cryptographic importance in today’s scenario. A classical substitution cipher is a confusion-only cipher. Due to the absence of a proper diffusion mechanism, this cipher is vulnerable to frequency attacks. We propose a block cipher model based on the substitution cipher in which we introduce a diffusion mechanism and multiple encryption rounds. The key indirectly used in the encipherment process is supplied to a deterministic random bit generator to shuffle a look-up table (LUT) using a uniform shuffling algorithm randomly. After studying the cryptographic properties of randomly generated LUTs, we perform a case study of an imaginary block cipher assumed to have a diffusion function equipped with a perfect diffusion property. Though, a randomly generated permutation may possess weaker cryptographic properties with a high probability. From the investigation, we find that with a robust diffusion mechanism, the proposed modified substitution cipher can have sufficient potentiality against several popularly known attacks.
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Ali, M.R., Roy Chowdhury, D. (2022). Never Underestimate Substitution Cipher with Diffusion. In: Shakya, S., Balas, V.E., Kamolphiwong, S., Du, KL. (eds) Sentimental Analysis and Deep Learning. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1408. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5157-1_52
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