Variable-Strength Symmetric Encryption with Steganographic Access Controls
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current encryption techniques, such as AES256 and RSA, are vulnerable to quantum computing attacks and lack the speed and security needed for high-fidelity encryption of streaming data, particularly in the face of increasing computing power and sophisticated codebreaking schemes.
Innovation Solution
A symmetric encryption cipher with steganographically embedded access controls, utilizing a cryptographic key structure that includes variable padding and encryption key stores, allowing for dynamic key strength and user-specific access controls, is generated through CSRNG and biometric authentication, ensuring robust encryption resistant to quantum attacks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If current encryption techniques (AES256, RSA) are used, then data can be encrypted with existing standards, but they become vulnerable to quantum computing attacks and sophisticated codebreaking schemes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the fundamental parameters of encryption by moving from classical cryptographic algorithms to quantum key distribution protocols. This involves changing the mathematical foundations from discrete logarithm problems to quantum mechanical principles, thereby achieving security that is fundamentally resistant to quantum computing attacks.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces classical mechanical/cryptographic systems with quantum mechanical systems. Specifically, it uses quantum key distribution protocols that leverage quantum phenomena (such as entanglement and no-cloning theorem) to establish secure encryption keys, substituting the entire cryptographic mechanism from a classical to a quantum-based system.
2Reliability
If encryption strength is increased to resist attacks, then security improves, but encryption and decryption speed decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the encryption process into two distinct phases: key distribution (performed once using quantum protocols) and data encryption/decryption (performed repeatedly using the established key). This segmentation allows the quantum protocol to be used only when needed for key establishment, while bulk data processing uses efficient classical encryption, thereby maintaining both high security and fast processing speeds.
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AI summary
A computerized method for a symmetric encryption cipher with steganographically embedded access controls includes generating a data structure relating to a cryptographic key of an invariant size and a variable encryption strength. The data structure is configured to dynamically allocate a plurality of adjacent data stores containing: an initialization vector (IV) for deriving a cryptographic key; a variable-length padding space dynamically coupled and inversely related to the variable encryption strength of the cryptographic key; and a seed array relating to the cryptographic key. User-authentication information, such as biometric data and/or access control information, may be steganographically embedded in the variable padding space of the cryptographic key. The method obtains a user-authorization dataset and defines a cryptographic key data store to include the IV dataset, and then merges the user-authentication dataset with the IV dataset, thereby creating a data encryption key, and stores it in the cryptographic key data store.