A New Approach to Cryptographic Hashing: Color Hidden Hash Algorithm

Abstract

Nowadays, the increase in internet speed has increased the amount of data. With this increase, secure transmission of the data gained importance. Some data are important and sensitive. Security has been becoming a major concern in keeping sensitive data for companies. There are many techniques to resolve this concern and hashing data is one of them. Keeping Data as hashed in suitable environment prevents systems from undesired situations. Hash algorithm provides a way to encipher data so that it could not be read or predicted. The existing hash algorithms are standard and the output values for the same data inputs are the same. This means that the hash output for each user is not unique. In this study, an innovative algorithm was designed by converting data to binary then matching them RGBA (Red, Green, Black, Alpha) color value. First, this algorithm converts input data to byte array then it constructs four-bit groups from this array. after that, for each four-bit group related to RGBA value is assigned. These RGBA values are associated with hash code length. The output could be used as hash code. In this way, a customized hash algorithm will be obtained. Different output can be generated for the same input values. Through this study, security is unique and more private for every user.