Peace be upon you
How are you guys? today I am going to show you something I have done as a data security assignment, the assignment was a presentation and application, me and other 3 guys were suppose to write something about MARS and Application, I helped in the Presentation and took the application :D, do you understand anything?
Well, let us begin the whole thing is about encryption algorithm called MARS, developer by IBM, you can find more about it
And here is the presentation
So, the idea is to make application for the ready made code of IBM, so the plane was todo simple application that do simple encryption and decryption, here is snapshots for the application, you can find the code here (Cocoa Touch Objective C project)
Lets see the application.
Here is the result, and as we use OFB + Random IV, when you reencrypt by just clicking back and next, you will get anther result
Lets do decryption for what we have encrypted
2 comments:
SA,
Nice work :)
I noticed that you are appending the random IV to the cipher data.
In my opinion, this is not practical because the IV is considered as a part of the encryption/decryption key itself.
If I were you, I would have made a lookup table of -say- 128 predefined IVs and just append the index of the randomly selected IV instead of the IV data itself.
Of course the lookup table MUST be shared between the encrypting and decrypting partied ... and may be encrypted with another key as well:)
Peace be upon you
First of all, I am honored by your comment :)
The target of the application was to prove to the professor that I can write code :D, because he want some kind of application.
As the objective was to demo the library and show that we understand some parts of it nothing more is required.
There is more neat way to hide the IV that is nicely done and can be used but it was not in the scope of this application
Thanks for your comment :)
BR
Ahmed Essam
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