About

A new encryption algorithm designed under guidance from Dr. B. Dinesh Rao, professor at Manipal University. This is a symmetric encryption algorithm and uses a variable key.

Authors

Aurabindo J [email protected] Piyush Itankar [email protected] Namrata Singh [email protected]

Building

./configure
make
sudo make install

Removing

Basic autotools targets like uninstall are available:

sudo make uninstall

Usage

Since this a symmetric encryption algorithm, first create a keybank by running the keygen program:

./keygen

It will generate KEYBANK and XOR files. Copy these to the location where you want to encrypt/decrypt content.

cp ./KEYGEN ./XOR ../vaken

Now use the vaken cli to encrypt or decrypt

cd ../vaken
./vaken -e ../payload.txt

This will generate the encrypted file in the current directory. You can decrypt it using:

./vaken -d ./encrypted

This will generate the decrypted output, which you can compare with hexdump for accuracy. You will see some extra zeros.

TODO

• Do cryptanalysis on the algorithm
• Remove the trailing zeros after decryption