A Framework for Securing Data by using Elliptic Curve Cryptography and Reed Solomon Coding Schemes

Every firm survives on data, which is an essential resource. In our contemporaries, it is not just the possession of the data that is crucial but the protection that can be offered to ensure its safety and utilization. This study presents the application of Reed Solomon error-correcting coding scheme and two variants of elliptic curve cryptosystems, namely: Elliptic Curve Integrated Encryption Scheme and Fast Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm to improve the integrity and confidentiality of data. A data protection framework that combines both encryption and encoding schemes to offer integrity and confidentiality to data. The framework draws on the strengths of both encryption and encoding schemes to secure medium and protect data in transit and at storage. The protection scheme obfuscates and signs data in transit by using the Elliptic Curve Cryptographic algorithms to prevent unauthorized access and modification. The Reed Solomon encoding scheme is utilized to correct any corrupted data, in order to maintain the integrity of data.