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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 1993
Filed:
Aug. 05, 1991
Lothrop Mittenthal, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Teledyne Industries, Inc., Newbury Park, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for nonlinearizing modulo 2 addition based encryption by block substitution techniques which allows use of the substitution scheme with relatively simple hardware and yet makes cryptanalysis more difficult. The basic block substitution, a one to one mapping of n bit binary numbers onto themselves, is based on the fact that certain permutations of the n bit binary numbers define a block substitution by modulo 2 addition of one permuted set of numbers to another, and that a subset of these define equations having an additive relationship when viewed as vectors. This allows the simple changing of the transformation on a frequent basis. Then the equations are nonlinearized, also in an orderly and readily variable manner, so that the remainder of the set equations may no longer be generated from a limited subset of the equations. Various properties of the transformations and methods of using the same are disclosed.