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More and more sensitive information is transmitted and stored in computer networks. Security has become a critical issue. As traditional cryptographic systems are now vulnerable to attacks, DNA based cryptography has been identified as a promising technology because of the vast parallelism and extraordinary information density. While a body of research has proposed the DNA based encryption algorithm, no research has provided solutions to distribute complex and long secure keys. This paper introduces a Hamming code and a block cipher mechanism to ensure secure transmission of a secure key. The research overcomes the limitation on the length of the secure key represented by DNA strands. Therefore it proves that real biological DNA strands are useful for encryption computing. To evaluate our method, we apply the block cipher mechanism to optimize a DNA-based implementation of a conventional symmetric encryption algorithm, described as “yet another encryption algorithm”. Moreover, a maximum length matching algorithm is developed to provide immunity against frequency attacks.
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The research was funded by the National Research University Fund (NRUF) and 2015-2016 New Faculty Research Award. The proposal number is 110664 LINKED TO 105433 and 111277.
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Zhang, Y., Liu, X., Ma, Y. et al. An optimized DNA based encryption scheme with enforced secure key distribution. Cluster Comput 20, 3119–3130 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-017-1009-y
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