Hybrid cipher system using neural network

Abstract EN

The objective of this work is to design and implement a cryptography system that enables the sender to send message through any channel (even if this channel is insecure) and the receiver to decrypt the received message without allowing any intruder to break the system and extracting the secret information.

In this work, we implement an interaction between the feedforward neural network and the stream cipher, so the secret message will be encrypted by unsupervised neural network method in addition to the first encryption process which is performed by the stream cipher method.

The security of any cipher system depends on the security of the related keys (that are used by the encryption and the decryption processes) and their corresponding lengths.

In our work, there are two types of keys; the first type is the keystream that is adopted by the stream cipher stage with optimal length (length of the keystream greater or equal the message length); and the second key type is the final weights that are obtained from the learning process within the neural network stage, So we can represent our work as an update or development for using the neural network to enhance the security of stream cipher.

As a result for a powerful hybrid design, the resulted cipher system provides a high degree of security which satisfies the data confidentially which is the main goal of the most cryptography systems.