A fast and secure encryption algorithm for message communication

The encryption standards such as DES (data encryption standard), AES (advanced encryption standard) and EES (escrowed encryption standard) are widely used to solve the problem of communication over an insecure channel. With advanced technologies in computer hardware and software, these standards seem not to be as secure and fast as one would like. In this paper we propose a fast and secure encryption algorithm using substitution mapping, translation and transposing operations. The proposed symmetric encryption technique has two advantages over traditional schemes. First, the encryption and decryption procedures are much simpler, and consequently, much faster. Second, the security level is higher due to the inherent poly-alphabetic nature of the substitution mapping method used here, together with the translation and transposition operations performed in the algorithm. In this paper, the encryption and decryption procedures are explained and the performance is compared with popular encryption algorithms.