Enhancing Security: A Hybrid Encryption Algorithm for Effective Key Generation
Jeevan John Jacob, Kiran P S, Jaigovind B Shenoy, Sagar Basavaraju · 2024
The abstract Data security is of most importance, in the present day- the introduction of high-level wireless communication channels has led to generation and transfer of massive amounts of data. Data security must keep up with it. Data breach may cause disastrous outcomes. Previously, hardware security modules (HSM) were used to perform cryptographic actions- storing keys and for authentication. This is no longer feasible as HSMs are physical devices and become inconvenient to carry around all the time. The unavailability of HSM poses a serious security threat (for cryptographic keys). This paper aims at a novel software solution that compensates for hardware. As the algorithm focuses on securing keys used for encryption. It may be referred to as key security scheme (KSS). The paper proposes a way to generate keys instead of storing it and assumes performing of cryptographic actions on the available hardware in the system. The proposed method can secure data, both in transit and while at rest.