DES Security Reinforcement Using Chaotic Logistic Map and Elliptic Curve Cryptography

The Data Encryption Standard (DES) was a prevalent symmetric key block cipher scheme. It was the most popular used cryptographic algorithm. DES´s security was a highly debatable aspect until it became an insecure algorithm in 1999. In this paper, an enhancement that overcomes the security weakness of DES is introduced. The modification employs the chaotic logistic map and the art of the Elliptic Curve Cryptography. The required key generation and distribution are achieved by the enhancement to establish a communication session. Our new DES is applied on image encryption and decryption processes. Experimental results are carried out with detailed analyses, the results demonstrate that the proposed scheme has an absolutely large key space to encounter the brute-force attack and it has a good immunity to the statistical attacks. Accordingly the introduced new DES algorithm could be used as a remarkably secure algorithm.