%0 Journal Article
%T Ambiguous Multi-Symmetric Scheme and Applications
%A Richard Bassous
%A Ahmad Mansour
%A Roger Bassous
%A Huirong Fu
%A Ye Zhu
%A George Corser
%J Journal of Information Security
%P 383-401
%@ 2153-1242
%D 2017
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/jis.2017.84024
%X <div style=\"text-align:justify;\">
	This paper introduces and evaluates the performance of a novel cipher scheme, Ambiguous Multi-Symmetric Cryptography (AMSC), which conceals multiple coherent plain-texts in one cipher-text. The cipher-text can be decrypted by different keys to produce different plain-texts. Security analysis showed that AMSC is secure against cipher-text only and known plain-text attacks. AMSC has the following applications: 1) it can send multiple messages for multiple receivers through one cipher-text; 2) it can send one real message and multiple decoys for camouflage; and 3) it can send one real message to one receiver using parallel processing. Performance comparison with leading symmetric algorithms (DES, AES and RC6) demonstrated AMSC¡¯s efficiency in execution time.
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%K Deniable Encryption
%K Multi Encryption
%K Honey Encryption
%K Steganography
%K Symmetric Encryption
%K Multi Encoding
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=80041