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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 1991
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1989
Thomas J Roberts, Batavia, IL (US);
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
This invention relates to an arrangement for encrypting data for storage in a computer and/or for transmission to another data processing system. The plain text data is divided into buffers and the buffers are divided into blocks. The blocks are encrypted under the control of a first key using any block encryption method such as the Data Encryption Standard (DES). Individual bytes of the encrypted blocks of a buffer are then permuted under the control of a second key to form an encrypted buffer. Advantageously, the number of permutations for even a modest size buffer, say 256 bytes, is enormous, making unauthorized decryption using key searching methods computationally infeasible.