Symmetric Encryption Algorithm Inspired by Randomness and Non-Linearity of Immune Systems

Abstract

In data encryption, the security of the algorithm is measured based on Shannon’s confusion and diffusion properties. This paper identifies the correspondences and highlights the essential computation elements on the basis of randomness and non-linearity of immune systems. These systems can be applied in symmetric encryption algorithm that satisfies the properties in designing a new symmetric encryption block cipher. The proposed symmetric encryption block cipher called the 3D-AES uses components of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) symmetric encryption block cipher and the new core components based on immune systems approaches. To ensure adequate high security of the systems in the world of information technology, the laboratory experiment results are presented and analyzed. They show that the randomness and non-linearity of the output in the 3D-AES symmetric encryption block cipher are comparable to the AES symmetric encryption block cipher.