A fingerprint featured data encryption algorithm

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new DES variant named Hashed Data Encryption Standard (or HDES for short), with an objective to enhance the limitation of static S-boxes arrangement in DES. The proposed HDES combines several techniques and components into one new algorithm to enhance the original DES. The HDES uses a hash function at the beginning of each block encryption process to produce a fingerprint for the plaintext, which will be used later to produce a seed that will coordinate the generation of the S-boxes during the sixteen rounds of the encryption process. The performance of the HDES has been evaluated and compared against DES and DESX. The evaluation has been conducted using the cipher data randomness and the encryption time.