An Advanced Rivest Cipher 4 Algorithm to Transfer Fast and Secure Data Using Li-Fi Technology

The Light-Fidelity (Li-Fi) is a wireless communication technology that is light-based and can complete wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) technologies for many applications. Li-Fi technology which uses light spectrum is a technology for solving the lack of radio spectrum at Wi-Fi. One of the main benefits of Li-Fi technology is the ability to communicate by light with a high level of safety. However, the signal of Li-Fi technology is the same as other signals that are susceptible to eavesdropping because no security system is infallible. The objective of this paper is to decrease the computational cost of encryption and decryption and keep the security of transformed data when transmitted via Li-Fi technology. This study proposes the advanced Rivest Cipher 4 (ARC4) algorithm that will be used in the physical layer of Li-Fi applications. The novelty will be in the pseudo-random generation algorithm (PRGA) which is part of Rivest Cipher 4 (RC4). The data will become an index of the s-array and get the value of that index in the s-array instead of using the XOR operation. The proposed ARC4 was evaluated by the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) test. The obtained results illustrate that ARC4 is more robust and effective than RC4 when the data is transformed by Li-Fi communication.