Authors:
Harry C. Shaw
and
Sayed Hussein
Affiliation:
George Washington University; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States
Keyword(s):
Encryption, DNA computing, MANET, Biomimetic, Molecular Cryptography, Steganography, Computational Biology.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Bioinformatics
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Biomedical Signal Processing
;
Evolutionary Systems
;
Real-Time Systems
Abstract:
Molecular biology models such as DNA evolution can provide a basis for proprietary architectures that achieve high degrees of diffusion and confusion and resistance to cryptanalysis. Proprietary encryption products can serve both large and small applications and can exist at both application and network level. This paper briefly outlines the basis of the proprietary encryption mechanism which uses the principles of DNA replication and steganography (hidden word cryptography) to produce confidential data.The foundation of the approach includes: organization of coded words and messages using base pairs organized into genes, an expandable genome consisting of DNA-based chromosome keys, and a DNA-based message encoding, replication, and evolution process. Such an encryption model provides “Security by Obscurity”.