Gopinathan, Unnikrishnan, Monaghan, David S., Naughton, Thomas J. and Sheridan, John T. (2006) A known-plaintext heuristic attack on the Fourier plane encryption algorithm. Optics Express, 14 (8). pp. 3181-3186. ISSN 1094-4087
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Abstract
The Fourier plane encryption algorithm is subjected to a known-plaintext attack. The simulated annealing heuristic algorithm is used to estimate the key, using a known plaintext-ciphertext pair, which decrypts the ciphertext with arbitrarily low error. The strength of the algorithm is tested by using this estimated key to decrypt a different ciphertext which was also encrypted using the same original key. We assume that the plaintext is amplitude-encoded real-valued image, and analyze only the mathematical algorithm rather than a real optical system that can be more secure. The Fourier plane encryption algorithm is found to be susceptible to a known-plaintext heuristic attack.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Fourier optics; optical signal processing; Optical data processing; Optical computing; Information processing; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science |
Item ID: | 8629 |
Identification Number: | 10.1364/OE.14.003181 |
Depositing User: | Thomas Naughton |
Date Deposited: | 17 Aug 2017 15:34 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Optics Express |
Publisher: | Optical Society of America |
Refereed: | Yes |
Funders: | Science Foundation Ireland |
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URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/8629 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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