DocumentCode
2705351
Title
Passphrase with Semantic Noises and a Proof on Its Higher Information Rate
Author
Lee, Kok-Wah ; Ewe, Hong-Tat
Author_Institution
Multimedia Univ., Cyberjaya
fYear
2007
fDate
15-19 Dec. 2007
Firstpage
652
Lastpage
655
Abstract
Key size becomes very important to a cryptographic algorithm according to Kerckhoff´s law where a civilian cryptosystem shall depend fully on key secrecy. Currently, there are four passphrase generation methods: sentence, acronym, diceware, and coinware. Unicity distance is the minimum size of ciphertext for unique decipherability of ciphertext when number of spurious keys is zero. A key with size less than unicity distance is good where there are spurious keys which allow a protection method using limited unsuccessful logins. Here, stronger forms of passphrases using textual semantic noises like punctuation marks, mnemonic substitution, misspelling, and associative morphing, which improve the key entropy, are proposed. An ASCII mutual substitution table is presented together with its proof on information rate increment. Higher information rate has lower redundancy, and hence bigger unicity distance ensures encrypted keys the short cryptogram in a key vault, like password safe, cannot be cryptanalyzed within certain limited login attempts.
Keywords
cryptography; message authentication; text analysis; ASCII mutual substitution table; Kerckhoff´s law; ciphertext decipherability; civilian cryptosystem; cryptographic algorithm; key secrecy; passphrase generation methods; spurious keys; textual semantic noises; unicity distance; Authentication; Computational intelligence; Cryptography; Entropy; Information processing; Information rates; Information security; Information technology; NIST; Protection;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Computational Intelligence and Security Workshops, 2007. CISW 2007. International Conference on
Conference_Location
Harbin
Print_ISBN
978-0-7695-3073-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CISW.2007.4425580
Filename
4425580
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